Installation fails on Win7 x64 SP1 w/most updates
sleepydesu98 opened this issue · 2 comments
If Win7 is unsupported, at least make it clear that it is and handle the error appropriately.
Assuming the user is on Windows 10 won't cut it when lots of people - myself included - don't want to touch it for reasons mostly pertaining to either lack of device drivers or performance issues on pre-2014 hardware, both of which are the case for me.
The amount of things that let me install them and then don't work is absurd, which is interesting considering most stuff back when everything finally dropped XP (and Vista with it mainly due to low usage more than technical reasons) would alert you right away that the software doesn't work anymore on that OS mostly to prevent the user from both writing unnecessary stuff and end up partly-installing broken software and its registry/etc entries to the system, and filing unnecessary issues like this...
This error is caused by Microsoft themselves... this stage of the installer that is erroring is the Webview2 runtime installer. That's it.
Use an MSI Extractor program to get the .exe out of the .msi, then install the Webview2 runtime manually, you can download it here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/#download-section
Thanks for the info, I'll give it a go! Glad to see it's not some kind of OS block after all ^_^
(Also heh, Sussex isn't all that far away from where I live lol... I live not far from Canterbury)