[Privoxy-users] Installation on Windows 11

[Lee]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 5:41 AM Fabian Keil wrote:
>
> PARISSE Michel via Privoxy-users <privoxy-users at lists.privoxy.org> wrote on 2025-04-23 at 12:26:32:
>
> > I downloaded privoxy_setup_4.0.0.exe on my Windows 11 Famille and ran
> > it, to no avail. I then reran it, in administrator mode, it then works
> > (after edition of the service and linking to and administrator account
> > as required by the documentation).

I just tried running privoxy_setup_4.0.0-1.exe on my windows 10
machine and got a popup

  Do you want to allow this app from an
  unknown publisher to make changes to your
  device?

asking for an admin password, looking to elevate privs.  That doesn't
happen on windows 11?

> > I suspect that running the installation of privoxy has to be run in
> > administrator mode. If that is the case, could this be explicitly
> > documented in the section on windows installation?

Do you have a Privoxy icon on the taskbar?  that right clicking gets
you a menu showing
  Exit Privoxy
  Edit
  Enable
  Show Privoxy Window

I have a vague memory of installing privoxy as a service and that
disabling or removing the privoxy taskbar icon.

Was this the bit you followed?

  After invoking Privoxy with --install

if so, don't do that.  You can end up with something that works, but
that's about all I can say for it.

If you just double click on the installer it should ask where to install it
  the default being  c:\program files (x86)\privoxy
and it will create a shortcut for you in
  C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp
that will automatically start privoxy when you log in.

> Thanks for the report. I agree that this should be documented.

I suspect the "privoxy --install" stuff is left over from however long
ago when there wasn't  ??desktop separation??  or whatever it is that
prevents windows from one user being displayed on the desktop of a
different user.

> Lee, do you know what the oldest supported Windows version is?

Windows 10 support ends Oct 2025, so I suppose Windows 10 is the
oldest supported version of Windows for another 6 months.

> I'm wondering if we still support versions that have no administrator
> mode. The documentation (doc/source/supported.sgml) claims we do but
> I suspect that it may be out of date.

The only windows machine I have is running windows 10.

https://cygwin.com/ has this bit:
  The Cygwin DLL currently works with all recent, commercially
released x86_64 versions of Windows, starting with Windows 8.1.

note the "released x86_64" .. 32 bit CPUs are not supported any more.
And a bit further down
  Cygwin 3.4.10 was the last Cygwin version supporting Windows 7,
Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012.

So you can't use the currently supported cygwin to build privoxy for
Windows 7, etc.  Which means using old software with known vulns :(

Lee