Get WinDirStat into Windows Store

[avogelba]

Originally reported by: Anatolij Arzich (Bitbucket: theChaosCoder, GitHub: theChaosCoder)

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Are there any plans to get WinDirStat into the Windows store?

With the "Desktop Bridge" one can pack an x86 application as an AppX package.
The only downside I can see right now is that one can't run WinDirStat as an admin. Everything else should work with no modifications.

See:
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/09/14/apps-built-using-the-desktop-bridge-now-available-in-the-windows-store/

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/windirstat/windirstat/issue/148

[avogelba]

Original comment by Oliver (Bitbucket: assarbad, GitHub: assarbad):

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Hey, thanks for bringing this to our attention. Well, not being able to run as admin is a fairly big downside for WDS, but it can be run as a normal user, so I'll look into this.

[avogelba]

Original comment by Anatolij Arzich (Bitbucket: theChaosCoder, GitHub: theChaosCoder):

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I actually never needed to run it as admin. So no downside for me at least ^^

edit: here is an example with VLC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdxK9-3N5Qs

[avogelba]

Original comment by Anatolij Arzich (Bitbucket: theChaosCoder, GitHub: theChaosCoder):

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I created a test app but cant install it yet. It doesn't like my generated certificate:-/

This helped me much:
https://github.com/felixrieseberg/electron-windows-store/wiki/Manual-Creation

The converter is now available via store
https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/store/p/desktopappconverter/9nblggh4skzw

You need also a BaseImage and neet to enable the Windows Containers feature
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/desktop-to-uwp-run-desktop-app-converter

After that run the setup once
DesktopAppConverter.exe -Setup -BaseImage D:\wds\BaseImage-14393.wim

Now you are ready to capture app installs

[avogelba]

Original comment by mirh_ (Bitbucket: mirh_, GitHub: Unknown):

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DOA.
UWP apps cannot access more than a handful of folder in the system.

You can kind of expand this, but at least stuff in the Store is barred even from just accessing "user data"