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How to install Unifi Network application to Program Files on Windows
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The Problem

Many people want to install Unifi into the Program Files folder on Windows.
By default the installer installs into the current users profile folder.

For some reason there isn't any information on how to do this. Many people come up with all kinds of hacks such as using symlinks to achieve the same effect.

The Solution

In reality the UniFi-installer.exe is a Nullsoft NSIS installer that accepts the standard command line argument for specifying a directory

Just run this command and it will install it into the specified directory:

C:\> UniFi-installer.exe /D=C:\Program Files\Ubiquiti UniFi\

Note: The argument should be the last one and there should be no quotes around the path, even if it has spaces

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msoler8785 commented Apr 19, 2023 •
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To install it as a service run the following from the directory you specified above:

C:\Program Files\Ubiquiti UniFi>java -jar lib\ace.jar installsvc

Othe userful arguments are uninstallsvc and startsvc

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