How to install Meteor for Windows for all users?

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I’m going to use Meteor on my JavaScript classes here at the university I’m teacher. We have labs with machines running Windows 7 and sadly I can’t change it, so the Meteor for Windows is essential to us.

The problem: as I know Meteor is always installed inside the current user folder (C:\Users%UserName%\AppData\Local\.meteor). But here, every student has his own user account loaded from Active Directory without administrator privileges and, of course, it’s impossible to install Meteor again every time a new student log in to a new machine.

Is it possible to install Meteor for Windows for all users instead of only for the current logged user?

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You can try to move:

C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Local\.meteor
to:
C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\.meteor

And fix permissions on the folder so everyone can access.

Also, fix the PATH environment variable (system variable) instead of current user.

Never tried but hope it’ll work :slight_smile:

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That worked on my Windows 7 box. Thank you!

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Your instructions worked well, thank you.

Here, we wanted to repeat the process on many machines, so I created a simple batch.
Here is it, for those who maybe will be interested:

robocopy "C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Local\.meteor" "C:\Users\All Users\AppData\Local\.meteor" /MIR /SEC /XJD /R:5 /W:5 /MT:32 /V /NP
icacls "C:\Users\All Users\AppData\Local\.meteor" /grant All:(OI)(CI)F /T /C
reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment" /v Path /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "%path%;C:\Users\All Users\AppData\Local\.meteor\"

Of course, I believe a simple checkbox “Install for all users” in the Windows installer would be very, very desired.

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