Timeline for Skype for Windows automatic upgrade keeps recreating desktop shortcut icon
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| Oct 20, 2018 at 0:12 | history | bounty ended | Bob | ||
| Oct 18, 2018 at 18:07 | comment | added | Albin | @b_jonas No, that shouldn't make any difference. Skype is still has "admin rights" (if it's started by a "restricted user" with admin rights), it's just not allowed to write to the Desktop folder for all users (because the user who started it doesn't have this right) but it still can access all the other folders. | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 17:58 | comment | added | b_jonas | Skype is installed on this computer for all users, so the auto-updater has to be able to update it for all users. I think it needs some admin privilages for that. Would I have to reinstall Skype for just one user? | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 17:55 | comment | added | Albin | @b_jonas The auto-updater can't have more rights then skype which (as far as I understand) starts the auto-updater. Unless you manually assign it more rights, it "should" work (I hope). Let me know and don't forget to assign the bounty (unless you don't wont to assign it). | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 17:46 | comment | added | b_jonas | I will try something like this. But I believe that it's not the Skype process itself that's installing the shortcut, but the auto-updater, which I think runs with administrator privilages, so I don't think that limiting the permissions of the Skype process itself will help. | |
| Oct 12, 2018 at 18:52 | history | edited | Albin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 12, 2018 at 18:22 | history | edited | Albin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 12, 2018 at 18:14 | history | answered | Albin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |