How to report TweakUI installation bugs?

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Brent Harsh

I ran TweakUI this morning, checked my installed version
(was 2.0-something) and thought I'd better look for any
updates before doing what I wanted to do. I found it had
been updated, and attempted to download and install the
latest version of TweakUI from MS website (version 2.10).
When I clicked the installer, it gave me the warning that I
had to uninstall the previous version first. I went to the
"powertoys" start-menu folder to see if "uninstall" was an
option there or if I would have to use the "install/remove
software" option from the control panel. I attempted to
run TweakUI again (remember it had just run a few moments
ago when I checked the version) and it brought up the
powerCalc instead! I checked the properties of the
powertoys->tweakui item, and indeed, it was now pointing to
the powercalc application. Seems like the installer
actually changed the start-menu shortcut when it aborted
the install. Is there an interface on the MS website to
ensure this bug-report would make it to the appropriate person?
 
You would sumbit it just like any other bug, but TweakUI is not officially supported by Microsoft. The software engineer that wrote it, does it on his own time, and it may be weeks, months or years before he gets back to fixing it.
 
Ramesh said:
Very true, Doug. That "Bag MRU Size" issue.........v2.1
Click to expand...

Thanks for the replies - showing my basic ignorance here, but I tried
to find a bug report type of interface (a la Bugzilla - what a great
tool!) on the MS website, and that search is actually what led me to
these newsgroups. Doug referenced "the usual way" and I guess I don't
know that - got a URL or a pointer? Of course, I recognize this might
not be addressed anytime soon, but it's not that serious either - just
that if *I* were writing TweakUI, I'd want to know about my install
program acting that way... weirdness.

Regards,
 
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