Minim watch won’t install win 64bit

[skeptic Mike]

(10-07-2020 17:38)simoncn Wrote:  Thanks for this detailed explanation. It should be straightforward to always do an unprivileged per-user install, even for an admin user. Will this remove all the warnings from the download and install process or only some of them?

You should normally get a warning from windows if you run a program that you have downloaded from the internet, unless it's fully signed, or you have unblocked it. So, you will get a warning if you try to run it directly from the web browser.

If you save it, then unblock it, then run it, you should be ok if it doesn't ask to elevate.

Bear in mind that you will get a prompt to ask to make a firewall exception, if you haven't got one in place already when you run MinimWatch. Some people might see this as a warning, as you have to elevate to make firewall changes. This is actually windows being helpful. It sees that MinimWatch needs a firewall exception and asks you to make it. Of course, the exception is for the Java executable, which makes the problem worse, because updating Java usually involves changing the path to the Java executable, which means the exceptions for the Java executable need to be changed. To work around this, you'd need to force the Java runtime to always install in the same folder, or use a custom executable launcher which could search for the java installation. (or not update Java, which is ok if you have a private java runtime specifically for MinimWatch.)

There are no easy answers - and that's without considering the changing licensing of Oracle's JRE. I've started to use AdoptOpenJDK JRE, and to install it in a fixed directory, and not to add it to the path or associate it with .jar files.

I assume eventually you'l be using a packager such as https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/343 which would solve most of the problems.

Mike