Is it a possibile on Windows to not require Administrator access during installation?

[BradKnowles]

In some enterprise environments, it can be hard to get, or keep, Admin access on equipment. It's one of the reasons I didn't like nvm-windows it required Admin access every time I wanted to switch node versions.

I also run my personal equipment as a regular user for a better security posture. I can of course elevate to Admin when I need to and did for this install.

I'll admit I haven't take a look at the code, so I don't know if there's other things that require Windows Admin that would make this a very difficult change.

If I'm not mistaken, there's a user level PATH variable that can be added to without Admin privileges. I think scoop, my preferred Windows installer, uses that to do its shimming, etc.

[CalvinAllen]

I ran into problems trying to use the user PATH initially due to the system PATH being the first once they’re added together, so then the shims end up in the middle, potentially allowing another installation to be ahead of it. I can probably make it an alternate install method when folks know what they’re doing and understand the tradeoff.

[BradKnowles]

Ahh, yeah I could see that being a problem. If they already had a Python install and that path was higher up the list, it would never user what was installed with dtvem. I can tweak my system around manually for my non-standard use case. No need to come up with a special case for one guy that likes to do things the hard way 😄

[CalvinAllen]

I think it’s worth looking into, that’s the kind of feedback / questions / ideas I’ve been waiting on 😂. More of a “power user” setting during installation

[CalvinAllen]

This is now an option :)

https://github.com/CodingWithCalvin/dtvem.cli/releases/tag/v0.5.0