BetterDiscordAutoUpdate

Performs the automatic installation of BetterDiscord after each Discord updates.

OS

Supported OS:

• Windows

Known Issues

• After a discord update, discord starts without BD installed and you need to manually close and reopen discord to re-install BD once.

Installation\Usage

1. Download BetterDiscordAutoUpdate.exe from the latest release page.
2. Double-click to open BetterDiscordAutoUpdate.exe (A terminal should open).
3. If the execution went well, you're done.
4. Now BetterDiscord will install automatically after each Discord update.

Update

1. Download the newer version
2. Run the program by double-clicking it, just as you did during the Installation process.

How it works

BetterDiscordAutoUpdate.exe is a .exe file for Windows that renames the original Update.exe to Update.moved.exe and self-copies into the Discord folder as Update.exe to catch all executions of that file and perform checks and actions to keep BetterDiscord installed.

Removing Auto Update

1. Go to your Discord folder at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Discord.
2. Delete Update.exe.
3. Rename Update.moved.exe to Update.exe.
4. Done.

Installation for PTB or Canary

The BetterDiscordAutoUpdate.exe should be run in a terminal by adding a launch argument:

PTB:

.\BetterDiscordAutoUpdate.exe ptb

Canary:

.\BetterDiscordAutoUpdate.exe canary

Build

BetterDiscordAutoUpdate has been written in C++17 using Visual Studio Community with the Desktop development with C++ workload.