I hope I don't muddy this, but I've been following this thread, and I just wanted to comment on a few things I think are important since I've seen this issue come up a few times now.
I've been searching the forum and reading a lot of posts and I've come across a few threads like these, where someone is making a suggestion/complaint or asking a question, and although it might not be intended, the feedback sometimes comes off in a negative light, as if the original poster is being talked down to.
I realize we have a lot of non-native english speakers here, and that's where a good bit of it comes from (lost in translation), plus emotion doesn't translate well into text either... But there are statements in this thread that are less than friendly.
It doesn't matter if a suggestion/complaint is good or bad, people shouldn't be left feeling like they want to leave the community when the thread ends, especially because that only hurts NTLite in the end, which then affects ALL of us--more consumers using NTLite means it grows faster. Instead of quoting replies in this thread, let me point to an older one instead:
https://www.ntlite.com/community/in...-taskbar-too-to-the-tweak-sections-nuhi.2808/
The title in that thread made sense to me, I didn't really see a problem, except that it could have been put into the body rather than the title, and cleaned up a bit. Yet the thread turned into a dumpster fire, and then that member left and hasn't logged in since. How much money is NTLite going to make from that guy now? Let me reiterate how this affects all of us--more purchases means more time and personnel can be devoted to growing NTLite, which we all use.
Anyway, I went and replicated the install issue that is being discussed here. I downloaded NTLite to install to my C: drive, and 1st I did a non-portable install. Then I ran the installer again and chose Portable this time. It does indeed skip the install location screen. Should it be added? I don't know, since I'm not a Windows developer. I don't know how hard/easy that is to do, I know refactoring can be a real bitch when I worked on MUDs, but I know nothing about executables.
Hopefully I can help clarify a little bit between NTLite and the OP and help refine the suggestion--NTLite could address this suggestion by simply detecting the old install path and then having the next screen say "A previous install has been detected, do you want to update that install, or install to a new location?" And then if you click "new" it allows you to save that portable install to another drive, like the D: drive for example.
Arguing about it though isn't productive, and the arguments on the forum aren't always logical either. Just because every other app nowadays has micro transactions, doesn't mean it's a good idea. So just because some/most/all other apps do something a certain way, doesn't mean it's how it should be done either.
TLDR: If a suggestion is decent, but may be more work than it's worth, or just doesn't have a lot of user or developer support behind it, put it on a tabled list of ideas, thank the person for their feedback by simply hitting the like button so they know someone acknowledged it, and move on. Honestly there wasn't a need for anyone other than Nuhi to read/comment on this thread if you really think about it, since the OP wasn't asking for support assistance... I'm genuinely not trying to argue or make this thread go on any longer, it would probably be best to lock it. I'm not going to reply to any other replies, not because I mean anything negative by that choice, but rather I just want us all to move forward. Thank you for listening.
