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I installed the Toolbox recently and I just uninstalled it. It made my user experience worse.
I have Rider EAP8 installed and I know Release candidate 1 has been released. When I select check for updates in Rider, it tells me the updates are controlled by the Toolbox.
The annoying thing it doesn't even tell me there's an update. At least tell me there's an update and I will manually install it from the Toolbox. I don't want to go to the Toolbox manually to do if there's an update.
I open the Toolbox from the system tray and it shows there's an update for Rider. The update button is disabled. Something about some folder is not writable or readonly. I manually go and uncheck the Readonly in file explorer. Windows sets it back to readonly right away.
Then I find out that the Toolbox needs to run as an admin. It seems there's no way to have the Toolbox autorun at startup as an admin. A limitation in Windows 11 it seems.
I restart it as an admin and the update button is enabled.
I don't see any value from running the Toolbox other than making my life a bit more difficult.
I uninstalled it because it made my ux worse.
Now when I check for updates inside Rider, it tells me RC 1 is available and it installs it for me along with any updated plugins in the same option.