On windows XP, the installer works just fine. But on windows 7, the files get installed in a completely wrong directory (often just your download directory) and the install path is never asked.

A solution is to run the installer as Administrator. Even then, the default path is not what it should be (C:\Program Files\KDE x.x.x), but at least it is fixable and you can use the software without any problems afterwards.

Can you submit this as a bug report in https://bugs.kde.org against the installer component? I have an idea what goes wrong here, but I need to check this more in depth.

Here you go: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262221

I just got this email:

You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has
been automatically rejected. If you think that your messages are
being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at
kde-windows-owner@kde.org.

I have no idea what to conclude now. Did my report fail, and if so, what did I do wrong?

Your report did not fail. That message you recieved is because the mailing list is misconfigured, and isn't accepting all Bugzilla mail by default.

I was wondering what is up with that. I tried sending a message to that list a few days ago - stuff related to testing/running the latest version of KDE on Windows, but got rejected. I ended up posting the message here but haven't gotten a reply back, yet.

I just did a clean install today and non-admin worked exactly as admin. So, I guess part of it was problem with the cache that leaves behind when one only removes the folder in C:\Program Files.

The default folder is still not correct though.

This thing drives me crazy. I thought my clean install worked, but despite the fact that I did enter the correct directory, it seems that KDE has been installed in my download folder anyway, and not in Program Files.

This is really strange. Can someone else please test the installer's behavior under win7?

Edit: and all 3 of my messages now got rejected by the list, or at least I get a third email saying this.

P3t3r wrote:Edit: and all 3 of my messages now got rejected by the list, or at least I get a third email saying this.

I can't help you with your installer problem (Win XP here), but I think the reject message is because you are considered the sender of the email, but are not subscribed to the mailing list. I don't know if it's considered an intended behaviour, but maybe the time has come for a dedicated windows-bugs mailing list. But this is up to the KDE Windows team!