AutoIT silent installer changes AU3 association to "Run Script" instead of keeping the existing behaviour by default

[PixelPixPanreyes]

I recently started using an updater based in Winget and, when it updates AutoIT, AutoIT's associations are being changed to "Run Script" instead of keeping my "Edit Script" preference.

It might be a good idea to detect if it's already associated, and keep the existing preference in the installer when doing a silent install/update

[argumentum]

If anyone ask me that their installation is not working, I'd tell them to reinstall and that would reset it to "factory" settings, that in turn would fix whatever didn't work before.
If the installer did what you say, it would not fix the registry entries. Now, it takes a degree of "know how" to do the edits that you did so, do them again ? Because otherwise ( changing the installer ) would not help those less knowledgeable users.

[PixelPixPanreyes]

Well, I see your point.

And, in the end, AutoIT is not updated so oftenly to this actually become an issue to any developer.

[rudi]

pls let me point out, that "run script" is the default behavior. If you prefer edit, all you need to do is to modify the value of this registry value:

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AutoIt3Script\Shell]
@="Open"

the default value a silent install will define is "Run"