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Win+R, type in services.msc, hit enter. Look for 3 services, they should look exactly like this including the “manual” and “automatic” options per each item. If they are any different, this is likely the culprit. [image] This error usually means the updater service registry entry may be missing …

No Brave services at all showing up - so yup, the registry is “corrupted”! I’ll wait for Mattches to confirm. As I said, luckily my issue not occurring now.

For sure. I’ve seen this error across the community, but I did notice one odd thing, Opera, Edge, Chrome, all have the same odd issue with their services going missing. The description even implies it self-deletes if Brave is removed, but, it wasn’t removed you clearly have it installed and even h…

Hi folks, A bit hard to tell exactly what is going on- but I would ask to visit appwiz.cpl on Windows and then remove the versions of Brave. Then, let’s re-install them using fresh binary from https://brave.com/download/ . When you go to do the re-install, let’s right click and pick Run as administ…

EDIT: Edited to not come off as rude, because I’m not trying to be, just stumped. Chrome, Edge, Brave all put their updater in x86. This is SOP. [image] [image] See even Edge too: [image] It is odd to see the binary in the x86 directory. It’s not, the updater has always lived there. You…

Related: [image] Brave Updating Fails Desktop Support Whenever I try to update Brave Browser, either using Patch My PC or trying manually using Settings, About Brave, it fails with “An error occurred while checking for updates: Update check failed to start (er…

I went to appwiz.cpl, and Brave does NOT even show as installed. But it works fine now - probably won’t auto-update, but at this point that is fine by me. So I will let you folks figure out what I should do to ensure a clean re-install. No rush on my end.

Yea, this unfortunately proves what I’ve been trying to preach for a bit now, the services de-register themselves IF it thinks Brave is not installed (per their own services description), but Omaha, the installer they use, is not even re-registering anything or trying. So learning that upon install…

Hi @MasterLink thanks for the reply When I shared I was confused about the x86 folder being used, I mean this for the Brave executable itself. On a 64-bit machine, a system level (admin) install of Brave should be going to C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser. If someone is seeing the Brave…

The updater living at C:\Program Files (x86)\BraveSoftware\Update is fine - I believe that is expected. But Brave should still be registered in appwiz.cpl.

Have to re-install Brave multiple times per day on Windows11

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Have to re-install Brave multiple times per day on Windows11

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