Windows Application Installation

You now have the option of installing Asrosoft applications either from the Microsoft Store, or by downloading a setup exe file from this web site.

When you run the setup exe you may get a pop-up from Windows Defender titled Windows protected your PC. In order to proceed and install the application, click More info, and then click Run anyway.

To avoid Windows Defender pop-ups, you can install the app using the Download from Microsoft Store button. However, in that case the application is installed in a hidden, inaccessible folder in c:\Program Files\WindowsApps, but it does give you extra options in the Windows settings, installed apps page to set the applications permissions and options to repair. Also, the application will be updated automatically by Microsoft Store when updates are released.

Our Windows setup exe files are unprivileged, which means that instead of being installed into the Program files folder they are installed in the current user's AppData\Local\Programs\ folder. The applications data is created in the current user's Documents folder within a folder with the application's name.

Updating an existing application installed from a zip file

First, install the application using the setup executable. Start the application, and then close it. That will create the application's folder in Documents.

Then, copy the following folders from the location where you previously installed the application:

• backups
• databases
• folder

into the sub folder created for the application in Documents, over-writing any existing files.

Start the application again and all your data will be as it was before. When you are certain that you have everything, you can delete the original folder you used to unzip the application into.