Hello everyone.
This is a Windows specific question here, but hopefully someone has an answer.
Over the last few years there are more and more application that are installed in appdata/roaming, and I was wondering where that come from?!
It annoys me not to have the control over there install locations, but it bugs me even more that its hard to find all those folders when I'm looking for them.
Is there a reason that this is common sense nowadays and did I missed some technical reason for this? Or is it just laziness of some devs / companies?
If you're a dev of this kind of apps / tools / programs please give the user the chance to change the location before installing.
Or is it just me that gets annoyed by this?
Have a nice day everyone and stay safe!
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Oh I could not agree more. But I'm sure the reason is very simple - most Windows users don't have a clue what they're doing so it's just easier for developers to bypass the whole install location part and throw everything in one place.
That issue ranks right up there with one of my other favorites - naming the download file "setup.exe". How about using a full name such as "DeveloperName-AppName-Platform(Arch)-Version"? I have to rename almost everything I download.