Everything

Everything has installer and post-install switches that are useful for managed Windows deployments. For a machine-wide install, use the official command-line options to control service and shortcut behavior instead of relying on defaults: -install copies Everything and creates the uninstall entry, -install-service installs and starts the Everything service, -uninstall-desktop-shortcut removes the current user’s desktop shortcut, and -disable-update-notification suppresses startup update prompts.

When using -install-options, Everything runs the copied executable with those options after the copy step, so include service, startup, shortcut, and configuration choices there for repeatable packaging. See voidtools’ official command-line options reference for the full supported switch set: https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/command_line_options/.

For managed updates, close Everything before launching the installer. Managed-deployment testing for the Everything x64 EXE and MSI update packages maps open-application failures to 0x87D0070C, so deployment scripts should pre-close or prompt for Everything.exe before running an update and then verify that the installed version changed.

Close Everything before managed updates. If the search client/service is running during update, the package can fail or leave files pending, so stop the app/service before retrying the installer.

Official source: Everything vendor/project source.