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Title: ITT we curse Windows Installer
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on September 25, 2009, 11:31:03 PM

!@#!@#%!#$!@# Windows Installer!

Title: Re: ITT we curse Windows Installer
Post by: Bocsius on September 25, 2009, 11:33:03 PM

stupid Windows Installer

Title: Re: ITT we curse Windows Installer
Post by: Vizzys on September 26, 2009, 12:20:42 AM

Quote from: Green Shinobi on September 26, 2009, 12:18:03 AM

Is that the thing that restarts your computer to install new updates when you aren't expecting it (usually when you go to bed with a torrent running for a movie you really want to watch the next day)?

you can turn that off actually

Title: Re: ITT we curse Windows Installer
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on September 26, 2009, 02:11:33 AM

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Is that the thing that restarts your computer to install new updates when you aren't expecting it (usually when you go to bed with a torrent running for a movie you really want to watch the next day)?

no, that's Windows Update.  Windows Installer is the .msi packages software comes in.  Don't get me wrong, it's better to have an .msi than some ad-hoc executable that probably doesn't uninstall correctly, in fact I'm always reluctant to install software that doesn't have one, but good God are they a pain to make for anything complicated.

Title: Re: ITT we curse Windows Installer
Post by: Van Cruncheon on September 26, 2009, 02:22:03 AM

i can honestly sympathise with this sentiment