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UXL Launcher might not work with Office 2010 Home and Student and Home and Business. #70
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Actually, the checkbox will soon be named "Compatibility Mode" and will be used if the user has any trouble and they set all the other settings to what they should be. See #75. |
I guess I don't need this issue open anymore. |
Actually, it looks like Office 2010's Click-to-Run used drive Q:\ instead of C:. I don't know if the Office drive location can be changed to "Q" instead of "C" to make these versions work. |
Actually, maybe this is important. Q:\ isn't accessible with Click-to-Run Office 2010. |
As I mentioned in an edit of the original post, I might make a checkbox that completely bypasses the path for people who use Office 2010 versions with Click-to-Run due to Q:\ being inaccessible. |
See #109 for how the configured path can be bypassed. |
This is basically closed unless it turns out that the option to bypass configured location for all compatible apps doesn't help with Office 2010's implementation of Click-to-Run, in which case I don't know what to do. This'll be closed after UXL Launcher version 3.3 is out as stable. |
Office 2010 Home and Student and Home and Business use Click-to-Run like some other recent versions of Office, but the files are stored in a disk partition (drive Q:) that isn't accessible to users. This means UXL Launcher can't open the programs as expected with the current application launch code. However, it may be possible to directly launch the program's EXE file without specifying the path. This relies on Windows running the "WINWORD.EXE" file that the user expects when clicking the "Microsoft Word" button.
See this page for more info on Click-to-Run in Office 2010: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Learn-more-about-Office-2010-Click-to-Run-9948b3a9-e3ef-4d73-b645-727bb2d9e365
I think I can just recommend to users to enable the Office 365 checkbox in the Options window by the Office 365 tooltip text if they use Office 2010 Home and Student or Home and Business. I also mentioned this with 2016 in Issue #69.That won't work, since the path can't be used in this situation. Maybe just have a "path bypass" checkbox instead.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: