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by jspano
Fri Apr 18, 2025 6:38 pm
Forum: Building Installers
Topic: add exclusion to windows defender for app dir, cant get it to work
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Re: add exclusion to windows defender for app dir, cant get it to work

Ah crap, sorry TY, i totally missed that.
works now.

Do you know what will happen if it's not ran as an admin though? If it fails for that i don't care.
i have it set to not fail if the custom actoni returns an error.
is that enough?
by jspano
Thu Apr 17, 2025 9:59 pm
Forum: Building Installers
Topic: add exclusion to windows defender for app dir, cant get it to work
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add exclusion to windows defender for app dir, cant get it to work

Hi, i'm trying to do a powershell script in my installer that add the installed directory to the list of exclustions in defender.
I've seen a couple posts on here but I can't make any of it work.

please see the attached image for my script. I'm sure i'm missing something simple but I can't find it ...
by jspano
Mon Jul 01, 2024 3:30 pm
Forum: Building Installers
Topic: can i overwrite a locked file
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can i overwrite a locked file

Hi, i haven an installer that drops a single file off in a directory. The file it overwrites will sometimes be locked by the OS itself, or someone on another cpu that has opened the file across the network etc.

can i tell advanced installer to force this file to be overwritten?
i do not care about ...

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