[Privoxy-users] Installation on Windows 11

[Ian Silvester]

On Thu, 1 May 2025, at 09:05, Lee via Privoxy-users wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM Ian Silvester wrote:
>>
>> My experience FWIW is that if I install as my daily driver account, even if that account has admin, upon reboot Privoxy throws an error that it cannot write to ./privoxy.log and dies. I find I have to use -install to avoid this issue. Same behaviour on Win 10 and 11.
>
> You probably took the default and installed Privoxy in "\Program files\Privoxy"
> "c:\Program files" does not normally allow regular users to write to
> anything there, so you can either
>  a) do what I do and create a "c:\temp" that anyone can write to and
> have privoxy logging set to "c:\temp\privoxy.log"
> or
>  b) modify file permissions on "c:\Program files\Privoxy" or
> "c:\Program files\Privoxy\privoxy.log" to allow anyone to write there.
> There's a FAQ for
>   What to do if editing the config file of privoxy is access denied?
> that's also applicable to the privoxy log file.
>
> Lee
>

Yes quite. Couldn't you alter the installer to offer a default location to which the user does have write access? Or, if Windows doesn't allow that, include an explanation screen during install? I feel like the 'out of the box' experience should work without the user having to know this. 

Ian
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