@MainframeSupertasker in regards to your first bit, as it’s been more than 6 months, was on a different OS, and they marked a solution and stated it is resolved for them, I would rather not open that old one. But definitely can try to help you and am sure @Mattches or others may take a look as well.
Until then, will ask if you can confirm some info. And yes, some of it is repeating information that seems like it’s in your original post, but I just want to be certain I’m not missing something. So here goes:
-
Is Brave currently on your device? If so, what version is it?
-
Is your Windows 10 a normal PC or is it something like a virtual machine?
-
Is the desktop environment you’re using set as the administrator for the device?
-
If installed on your device already, what happens when you go to
brave://settings/help? Is that when you see the update check failed? And refreshing any number of times doesn’t fix it? -
Then to try to resolve that, you are downloading and running the installer from https://brave.com/download/ ?
-
Just random, but clicking on link provided here doesn’t work differently for you, does it? https://laptop-updates.brave.com/download/BRV002?bitness=64 (I’m taking an innocent approach, comparing that URL to your
https://referrals.brave.com/latest/BraveBrowserSetup-BRV002.exeas I’m not sure where you grabbed that URL from. If chance of different source or file, then rather ask and try rather than ignore what could potentially be a “simple” solution.)