diff --git a/app/Application.php b/app/Application.php
index a57be91b..1dbd58e3 100644
--- a/app/Application.php
+++ b/app/Application.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 class Application extends \Hyde\Foundation\Application
 {
-    final public const APP_VERSION = '0.7.16';
+    final public const APP_VERSION = '0.7.17';
 
     public function getCachedPackagesPath(): string
     {
diff --git a/app/Commands/SelfUpdateCommand.php b/app/Commands/SelfUpdateCommand.php
index 3de5dc3e..7450a574 100644
--- a/app/Commands/SelfUpdateCommand.php
+++ b/app/Commands/SelfUpdateCommand.php
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 use function json_decode;
 use function is_writable;
 use function curl_setopt;
+use function str_replace;
 use function array_combine;
 use function str_ends_with;
 use function clearstatcache;
@@ -128,7 +129,7 @@ public function handle(): int
 
             $this->info('The application has been updated successfully.');
 
-            // Verify the application version
+            // Verify the application version (// Fixme: This shows the old version when using Composer to update)
             passthru('hyde --version --ansi');
 
             // Now we can exit the application, we do this manually to avoid issues when Laravel tries to clean up the application
@@ -431,19 +432,13 @@ protected function runComposerInElevatedPrompt(): void
         $outputStream = realpath($outputStream);
 
         // Set up a batch script so we can redirect the output to our stream file
-        $batch = <<<CMD
-        call composer global require hyde/cli --no-interaction 2> $outputStream
-        echo --END-- >> $outputStream
-        CMD;
+        $batch = str_replace('{{ outputStream }}', $outputStream, file_get_contents(__DIR__.'/../bin/composer-update-proxy.bat'));
 
         $updateScript = "$path.bat";
         file_put_contents($updateScript, $batch);
         $updateScript = realpath($updateScript);
 
-        $vbs = <<<VBS
-        Set UAC = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
-        UAC.ShellExecute "cmd.exe", "/c $updateScript", "", "runas", 0
-        VBS;
+        $vbs = str_replace('{{ updateScript }}', $updateScript, file_get_contents(__DIR__.'/../bin/composer-update-proxy.vbs'));
 
         $vbsScript = "$path.vbs";
         file_put_contents($vbsScript, $vbs);
diff --git a/app/bin/composer-update-proxy.bat b/app/bin/composer-update-proxy.bat
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..43938b3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/bin/composer-update-proxy.bat
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+call composer global require hyde/cli --no-interaction 2> {{ outputStream }}
+echo --END-- >> {{ outputStream }}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/app/bin/request-composer-user-access-control.vbs b/app/bin/request-composer-user-access-control.vbs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1da73d02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/bin/request-composer-user-access-control.vbs
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Set UAC = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
+UAC.ShellExecute "cmd.exe", "/c {{ updateScript }}", "", "runas", 0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/builds/hyde b/builds/hyde
index cbff222c..129c99d1 100755
Binary files a/builds/hyde and b/builds/hyde differ