Often I install apps at the public library and my time runs out in the middle of installation, so I take out my drive in the middle of installing the app and then Windows freaks out and tells me that it can't find the drive. No matter how many times I exit out of that message, it pops up again. And it won't let the computer shut down for like five minutes. Could the future installers include an exit/cancel button or is that just how NSIS is made to work?
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Use the Task Manager.
They disabled task manager on the library computers.
What about process explorer?
Isn't there a launcher here somewhere for it that you could use instead?
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CurrProcess on your drive.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cprocess.zip
Or this...
https://portableapps.com/node/13471
Good point.
Never seen that before. I'll take it!
NSIS itself doesn't have the cancel button enabled. You can force it to be enabled using a hack, but I think this could cause issues.
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Interesting question. For me, even the biggest apps here don't take very long to install.
Is it that the computers are that slow that the installation times are that long, or do you only get like five minutes to use the computer?
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.
I get the important stuff done first.
Sometimes I download apps when not at home, but even if I install them on the go, I keep them in a folder, X:\tmp (for Temp), so that when I get home I can move it into my PortableApps repository in my software archive, a directory that is a great help when I go to reinstall Windows, or if a friend gets a new computer, I like to send them a "care package" of free and open source software. Stuff that will help out greatly, like the latest AVG Free, PeerGuardian if I think they're gonna do any P2P stuff, the latest ZoneAlarm, Firefox, VLC, OpenOffice, and other goodies.
So that's probably what you should do... download the stuff to a temp folder, and install it later. That way you can use your limited time for other stuff.
Question: if you run out of time, why cancel the installer if you still have control of the computer, to fight the warning boxes after you pull out the drive? Why not just give the installer a second or two to finish? Just curious, because that doesn't make sense.