Per-user installers

7-Zip

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7-Zip needs to be installed in two parts.

First, the standalone 7zr.exe binary should be downloaded. This can stay in the Downloads directory as it will only be needed once.

Second, the 64-bit Windows x64 installer (.exe) should be downloaded. This should be extracted using the previous standalone executable.

mkdir %USERPROFILE%\opt\7zip
cd %USERPROFILE%\opt\7zip
%USERPROFILE%\Downloads\7zr.exe x %USERPROFILE%\Downloads\7z2201-x64.exe

The 7zip path can then be added to the %PATH% environment variable.

Firefox

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Use the non-MSI installer for per-user installation.

Git

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Git can install to a user directory when run without admin permissions.

Go Mono fonts

Download

Download and extract the TTF files from the .tar.gz file, or checkout the binaries from Git:

git clone https://go.googlesource.com/image

The font files are in image/font/gofont/ttfs.

Select all the .ttf files, right-click, and select Install.

KeePassXC

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ZIP version can run from any directory.

Requires the Visual C++ Redistributable to be downloaded and extracted.

The Wix binaries ZIP should be downloaded and extracted. Then the Wix dark.exe command should be used to extract the VC_redist.x64.exe file.

dark.exe -x vcruntime VC_redist.x64.exe

Then open vcruntime\AttachedContainer\packages\vcRuntimeMinimum_amd64\cab1.cab and copy all the files into the KeePassXC directory.

Microsoft Terminal

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The .msixbundle will install without admin permissions.

mRemoteNG

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ZIP version can run from any directory.

MSYS2 (development environment)

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Download and run the msys2-x86_64-*.exe installer. Install to a directory that you have write access to, e.g. under %USERPROFILE%\opt\msys64.

Run the MSYS2 UCRT64 launcher. UCRT64 is Microsoft's Universal C Runtime Library and is the preferred build environment on modern (Windows 10 and above) Windows operating systems. For more information, see Environments.

Update the MSYS2 environment with pacman -Syu and then install the toolchain package group with pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt0x86_64-toolchain. This will install all of the build tools including gcc, g++, and mingw32-make, plus the libstdc and libstdc++ libraries.

Finally, add %USERPROFILE%\opt\msys64\ucrt64\bin to the %PATH% environment variable.

A profile can be added to Windows Terminal with the following settings:

PuTTY

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The Windows built-in ssh-agent needs admin to be started.

The ZIP file can be extracted to any directory.

Vim

Download

The installer can run without admin permissions, or the ZIP version can run from any directory.

WinCompose

Download

Use the NoInstall ZIP file.