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Files Companion 1.2.2 - install then verify
Files Companion 1.2.2 — see the result immediately
New
- The installer now verifies itself. When the install finishes, the same
window reports what was detected on your machine: which Files launcher was
found (and by which of the six strategies), whether all seven shell redirects
are in place, whether the Recycle Bin component landed, and whether the WebView2
Runtime is available. Any line marked ✗ says what to do about it. --verifyruns that check without installing anything:
FilesCompanionSetup.exe --verify— useful before installing, and for
diagnosing someone else's machine.- A redirect that already points at a custom
FilesOpen.exeis now reported
as configured rather than missing, so a hand-made setup is not flagged as broken.
Why
Silent failure is the worst failure mode: before 1.2.1 the layer probed two
hardcoded paths and swallowed every error, so a differently-installed Files meant
a folder double-click did nothing at all. 1.2.1 fixed the detection. 1.2.2 makes
the result visible at the moment of installation, so nobody has to discover a
problem later.