Attempt to close running instance during Windows installer

[francislavoie]

Suggestion

When installing an update for the Windows version, if the program is already running, it throws up an error because the executable is locked.

Many other installers prompt the user to attempt to close the program so installation can continue. This is a much better user experience because it doesn't force me to context-switch to close a program before continuing. Plus I typically end up needing to spam click "Retry" until the resources are unlocked for the installer to continue. That should all be automated by the installer.

Use case

I find myself putting off updating qBittorrent a lot of the time because of the added friction during installation. If it was just "next-next-next-next" then I'd be a lot more content updating more frequently. But right now it's more like "next-next-ERROR-sigh-ffs-taskbar-rightclick-exit-sigh-retry-retry-retry-retry-retry-retry-retry-retry-retry-retry-next"

Extra info/examples/attachments

I looked for a similar issue, but I couldn't find one quick. Sorry if this issue has already been raised before!

[luzpaz]

Any relationship to #19980 ?

[francislavoie]

No, that's unrelated. This is a feature request to make the installer smoother to use, it's not a bug report.