Win 11 peculiarity led me to learn something vaguely useful
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So, I have this Winforms ClickOnce prog that only I use but it gets used weekly for the last 10 years. I needed to make a couple of minor changes before then manually updating on the only 2 PCs that it will ever run on. Now, as I couldn't remember what folder the current version was installed from, I decided to uninstall then do a fresh install - otherwise it would throw an error and tell me it must be updated from the original install folder. However, despite it having a nice shiny icon on my desktop, and the program working, it does not appear on Win 11's list of Installed Apps, so I couldn't uninstall it without having to get "involved" in things. So, I turned off assembly signing then published and lo and behold, it then installed, on both machines, from a different folder to the original install folder. Both versions of the prog are available to use, should I need to revert back e.g. if I discover I have made a boo-boo in the new version. Obviously not suitable for any "real world" software, but for something for personal use only, makes life a bit easier. Now just wondering why Win 11 shows some of my homemade apps in its list but not others ...