Remove AppInstaller

[riverar]

Re: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/12/28/financially-motivated-threat-actors-misusing-app-installer/

Microsoft has again disabled a critical component of the appinstaller technology--URL scheme activation--making it an unreliable channel for delivering software. We are no longer using appinstaller moving forward and must remove it from our pipeline.

We will continue to evaluate whether we keep using MSIX and Desktop Bridge (fka Project Centennial). (The technology transfer of MSIX to Microsoft India does not instill confidence.)

[iAvoe]

Currently Microsoft Store is down (maybe its just me), so there is no way to update or download current builds, guess I'll try compile one...

[shodanx2]

Hello, Please provide temporary instruction for offline manual install For both stable and dev version (since dev version has the much needed actions feature)

Here is how I do the installation at this point

Install stable version 2.3.0

https://packages.chocolatey.org/eartrumpet.2.3.0.nupkg

using 7-zip, uncompress the file into its own folder as if it were a zip file

Decompress the file eartrumpet.2.3.0\tools\release.zip

Rename the "release" folder to "EarTrumpet"

Copy this folder to

C:\Program Files or %PROGRAMFILES%\

Create a shortcut from

C:\Program Files\EarTrumpet\EarTrumpet.exe

to

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

or

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Eartrumpet stable version 2.3.0 should now start automatically on reboot

As for the dev version

Download

https://install.eartrumpet.app/dev/EarTrumpet.Package.appinstaller

open this file with a text editor, you will find two more URLs to download

https://install.eartrumpet.app/dev/EarTrumpet.Package_2.3.0.15_x86.appxbundle https://aka.ms/Microsoft.VCLibs.x86.14.00.Desktop.appx

download EarTrumpet.Package_2.3.0.15_x86.appxbundle

decompress like a zip into it's own folder

In this folder you will find

EarTrumpet.Package_2.3.0.15_x86\EarTrumpet.Package_2.3.0.15_x86.appx

decompress this file

You will find EarTrumpet.Package_2.3.0.15_x86\EarTrumpet.Package_2.3.0.15_x86\EarTrumpet

Copy this folder to

C:\Program Files or %PROGRAMFILES%\

Create a shortcut from

C:\Program Files\EarTrumpet\EarTrumpet.exe

to

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

or

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Now one weird thing for me, even though I am on version 2.3.0.15

I do not have the "actions", so I cannot create hotkeys to switch my audio between my TV's speakers and my headphones !

Not sure what the problem is at this point.