Spotify installs as App not Application

[The_Red_Freak]

Hello,

i just want to know if i could get my money back, because the “offline” Installer referenced in the download Page won’t work with new Versions of Windows.
Because Windows is a little b%@!h and installs Spotify as an App and i have no “rights” to open the folder or install it as Administrator.

With best regards,
Mernacher Maximilian

PS. I’m austrian, don’t expect the best english from me

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[Notrace]

Hey, i’ll mark your account for a refund, You should have the money back by tomorrow!

Its actually Spotify thats making this happen. If you have had the App version of spotify installed once, it will automatically migrate to the app version after installing the regular desktop (“offline”) version.

There is a way to get back to the regular desktop version:
https://community.equalify.me/t/windows-store-version-doesnt-work/1752/8

WIndows Store version doesn't work

There is a solution, but it can be a little tedious.

• Go to %appdata% in your file explorer on the machine everything works fine on.
• zip or rar up the whole spotify folder.
• copy it to the machine that keeps updating to the windows store version
• uninstall the store version
• and unpack your archive in the same place (%appdata/spotify)
• then run spotify from that folder

Voila, everything should now be fixed. Even after you re-install or update spotify it will now stay at the regular version.

Now you can make shortcuts to the spotify exe where you need them, desktop or taskbar.

Unfortunately this is the only way i’ve found that permanently fixes the issue…

If you want to test that first, go ahead, and just let me know if it works.

[The_Red_Freak]

Thanks for that absolutely quick response!

i tried uninstalling the store version but it keeps rolling back to the Store Version.

I’ll appreciate it if i get my money back