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ClickOnce uninstall for normal non admin accounts

I have 2 accounts on my Win 10 Pro computer. One with and the other default without admin rights. I can with an non admin account install ClickOnce applications that I have created with Visual Studio 2016. That works.

But as soon as I try to uninstall the application from the non admin rights account, I am prompted to switch to the admin account. However the admin account does not know of this application so it crashes with some ARP error when trying to uninstall the app.

Catch 22!

So how do I solve this? Is there in Visual-studio some switch that controls this?

Solution

  • The solution is to use the Control Panel to de-install the app.

    There I have no problems removing an application that I as non admin user installed