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Still happened. So I did a bit more digging. And realized that I have Brave installations in both “Program Files” and “Program Files (x86)” folders. After the spontaneous un-install, the “Program Files” was gone, and the “Program Files (x86)” had a Recovery folder with a datestamp of yesterday (when…

Still happening. I actually had Process Control running, and saw everything crash. Brave shut down, CrashHandler kicked in, and eventually what was left running was “setup.exe” from Brave. All the folders/files within “Program Files/BraveSoftware” were removed. I had to manually kill the two “setu…

I completely uninstalled Brave, and removed all folders in Program Files and Program Files (x86). Re-installed Brave from the website. The installer went into Program Files (x86), but the program itself went into Program Files. I did notice that the version is now 85.116, earlier this morning it was…

Still happening. Are there any debug/trace logs I can access?

Trying to get some more eyes on this – appreciate your patience.

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…

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

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rgrindley December 17, 2025, 7:58pm 9

Hasn’t happened for a few days. However, this error may be the reason why:

An error occurred while checking for updates: Update check failed to start (error code 1: 0X80004005 – system level).

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Brave 1.85.116 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Chromium: 143.0.7499.110

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

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