Windows installer file type association problematic

[linquize]

Windows installer:
User cannot opt-out file type association.
File type association in Windows registry is problematic.
After installing panwriter from installer,
Explorer -> Right Click -> New -> Text Document is removed because some registry values are wrong.

I want to opt-out file type association.

[linquize]

See electron-userland/electron-builder#2713

[mb21]

Thanks for the report. But seems there is little we can do until this is fixed in Electron..?

[linquize]

One thing you could do: release a windows portable exe as well as nsis?
"win": { "target": [ "portable", "nsis" ] }

[mb21]

Did you verify that that would fix it?

I'm not a Windows-user... but sounds also like something that should somehow be configurable in the registry or somewhere?

[linquize]

This is not to "fix", but to produce one more output: portable executable. The problematic nsis setup is also produced. Please release both.
Since 2 outputs are produced, user can choose to download portable version.

[mb21]

Yes, but have you verified that the portable version doesn't have this problem? I don't understand why it would be different...?

[linquize]

NSIS setup writes file assoxiations to Windows registry, because you put fileAssociations in package.json. electron-builder will generate write registry code in NSIS script.

Portable exe extracts files to a temporary directory before every run. It does not write to Windows registry.
Therefore, portable exe does not have such problem

[mb21]

I'll take a look for the next release... meanwhile, you can also build it yourself...