element-hq / element-hq/element-web
Can not install on Windows 10 Home
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This is for a new install of Element Desktop on Windows 10 Home. There is no anti virus installed other than windows defender which i have tried disabling. I have tried the 64, 32 bit, and nightly installers.
It immediatly fails with a popup message "Installation has failed - unable to write c:\ProgramData\lilp - IT Policies may be restricting access to this folder"
This is not nor has ever been a corporate PC, it is not, nor never has been on a domain.
I tried to navigate to lilpy and it doesn't exist, so i created it, the error then said it could not write to c:\ProgramData\lilp\SquirrelTemp, so i created that dir. After doing that then it failed with an error message along the lines of "installation has failed - could not extract installer"
I saw no errors in windows event viewer under Application, Security, Setup, System, or Forwarded Events.
### Outcome
#### What did you expect?
the application to install
#### What happened instead?
it did not in stall
### Operating system
Windows 10 Home
### Application version
Element Installer
### How did you install the app?
https://element.io/download
### Homeserver
_No response_
### Will you send logs?
No
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