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System Requirements

Operating system, Office, hardware, and permission requirements for Vediram Deck

Operating system

  • Windows 11 (all editions, including Home) - recommended.
  • Windows 10 version 22H2 (build 22621) or later - minimum supported build.

Deck runs on Home, Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions. Note that Group Policy configuration (gpedit.msc, the domain central store) is only available on Pro and above; Home editions can run Deck but cannot be configured through Group Policy. See Group Policy Setup.

Processor architecture

Deck ships as a 64-bit (x64) installer and also supports x86 and ARM64 Windows. Use the x64 MSI on Intel/AMD machines and on ARM64 devices running x64 emulation.

.NET runtime

None required. Deck is published self-contained - the .NET 8 runtime it needs is bundled inside the MSI. You do not need to install the .NET Desktop Runtime separately, and Deck is unaffected by .NET runtime updates on the machine.

Microsoft Office

  • Microsoft Office 2016, 2019, 2021, 2024, or Microsoft 365 (all use the 16.0 registry family).
  • Office 2013 and earlier are not supported - they use different registry paths that Deck does not scan.

Deck manages add-ins for these applications:

  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft PowerPoint

Hardware

ResourceRequirement
Disk~150 MB for the application (self-contained runtime included), plus a small SQLite database that grows with metrics/crash history
RAM~100 MB typical for the background daemon

Permissions

  • Per-user install (default): runs as a standard user, no administrator rights required. Deck reads and writes the current user's add-in configuration under HKCU.
  • Per-machine install (ALLUSERS=1): requires administrator elevation to install. See Deployment Overview.

Regardless of install mode, when Deck activates a profile it only writes HKCU add-in values. Add-ins registered under HKLM (deployed by IT machine-wide) are shown as read-only and are never modified by Deck.

Install and data locations

Deck separates its program files from its user data:

PathContents
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Vediram\DeckApplication binaries (per-user install)
C:\Program Files\Vediram\DeckApplication binaries (per-machine install, ALLUSERS=1)
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Vediram\DeckUser data: deck.db, core.log, core-error.log

The data folder locations can be redirected with the DatabaseFolder, LogsFolder, and CrashDumpsFolder policies - see the Policy Reference.

Network

Deck requires no outbound network access to function. No firewall rules, proxy exceptions, or allow-listed endpoints are needed. The only optional network dependency is a file share you designate for managed profiles.

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