Installing VS Code extension without admin rights
I'm thinking of asking my IT department to get the right to install VS-Studio Code and use it with some extensions. Just like Python. My question is, can I install extensions without having to use the admin user under windows?
I got this exact problem with Notepad ++ where I can only install the editor using the software deployment tool, but not with the extension (via the editor itself).
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The short answer is No for installing VSCode and ~ yes for installing extensions.
It looks like VSCode will install without admin rights, but it doesn't. As of 2015, there is an open issue with a feature request to allow user level installation. There is another known bug that would prevent VSCode from running without an administrator account after an upgrade.
To answer the question about installing an extension, it will depend on the extension and if you wrote access to your path to install extensions, which is by default
%USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions
Many extensions seem to require root access on Linux , however, on Windows, most extensions have been installed without any administrator privileges since the 1.0 release.
(Let me admit that I am now using VSCode as my primary editor and stop playing with all those packages and themes that usually require admin rights, so maybe this has nothing to do with post 1.0 posts.)
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