I'm a bit confused. For an app in my play console it shows:
44k installs
41k uninstalls
11k active installs
For "lifetime" timespan.
But should be "installs - uninstalls = active installs"?
So why are there 11k active installs when according to installs minus uninstalls there should be 3k? I heard that there was a change in counting, also google mentions it in the help document, but they don't explain what exactly they changed.
Do uninstalls include updates? But why is this not marked in the detail statistic? There is just a differentiation between uninstalls and deactivations.
You'd think so, but it doesn't, not on my app or any screenshot of the dev console I ever saw. I believe this is because active installs is only users that opened the app in the last 30 days, so if 9k people uninstalled in the last 30 days (!) you would see this.
Honestly though, I think even Google doesn't understand this, and it's probably a bug.
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A client's file seems to have vanished overnight between Sunday Jan 29th 23:30 and Monday 10:30 AM CST (Chicago time) and we want to rule out or locate anything a Windows update might have done to cause this problem. Automatic updates was enabled. The user was not on the computer during that period.
When I look in Windows Update / Update History there were 8 or so recent updates which do no show up on the list of updates that can be rolled back. I'm not familiar with this. All the updates around this period begin the same: "Security Intelligence Update for Microsoft Defender Antivirus - KB2267602", one on Jan 29th and two on Jan 30th.
Larger context -- the file that appears to be suddenly missing is a standard menu item in AOL Desktop Gold called "Saved to my PC" which contains ( or did ) several thousand email messages going back years.
The ( generally clueless ) AOL helpdesk (a least the 8 different people we were routed through ) denied that AOL did any update to their product in this time window. They also were unable to find any record of a 3.2 hour session we had with them April 24,2022 about this same file and told us they don't keep tickets over 6 months, and for 7 of them we had to explain to them how their own product worked. Sigh.
When i say the file has vanished what i mean is that there used to be a menu item linking ot that hard-drive file / folder / directory and the entire link was now suddenly missing. I only today managed to find out by web surfing the name of the (hidden) filee and haven't yet determined whether the file is actually missing, or whether just the link to the file is broken. I did locate a dozen other people over the past few years who similarly lost their AOL mail and had no joy from AOL help desk in locating or restoring it.
So one possible thing the security update to Windows Defender could have done was finally scanned for some new virus, found it, and possibly quarantined the file instead of deleting it. I'll check that this afternoon.
So, the file may have been deleted, or some symlink to it may have been deleted, in which case uninstalling the updates won't help.
BUT, I wanted to SEE if uninstalling the updates would magically make the file ( menu item) suddenly work again, so I come here to ask you wise people if there is some way to unstall such updates that are not on the provided list of updates to uninstall.
More likely it got quarantined and I need to go figure out where the log of such events is kept. (and what to do if that is true. ) I know the 11 hour window in which that would have happened.
Any bright ideas? What am I overlooking and what question should I have been asking?
Thank you!
Wade
I installed latest Microsoft team in debian 10 buster. I tried to share my desktop with my group but Microsoft team restarts automatically every time. I tried instructions provided here e.g reinstalling, logout, clear cash etc. But, It doesn't help. What next should I try?
Initially, you will see a black screen while desktop/screen sharing. Anyway, lets try out this. Login as a root user then go to etc/gdm3 and find daemon.conf file. Open it and find the following line.
#WaylandEnable=false
Uncomment/remove the hash before WaylandEnable
WaylandEnable=false
Finally, reboot your system.
I have a Clickonce app from Visual Studio 2015 SP3 that is published to the network server and used in-house only. The program works just fine when launched from Visual Studio. It runs just fine on a Windows machine that does not have the 1803 update. But once a machine updates to 1803, the application no longer starts. I get the "Checking for updates..." window then nothing. On a fresh install, I usually get the Smartscreen telling me the program may be dangerous. It doesn't get that far.
I've created the Clickonce from a computer with the 1803 update and the problem still exists.
I've disconnected the machine from the network. The application starts but then has no database access and it needs the database. It's also written to hide buttons that would use the database to prevent users from trying to do things that require it.
I found a workaround (third paragraph) at https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7cbd16f5-526e-4b0b-a186-3ebf41b7b349/smartscreen-prompt-does-not-show-for-clickonce-app-since-windows-10-update-1803?forum=win10itprogeneral. When I start the application from the directory mentioned, I get the Smartscreen and can tell it to run anyway. Every time I click the desktop icon, it works just fine.
If a new release is published, the new release is downloaded and the program updated, but the Smartscreen no longer appears and the application never starts.
So somewhere between installing the latest update and the Smartscreen, this is failing. Anyone else experiencing this and have an idea as to why?
Yes, frustratingly I also experienced this today. Presumably a security update that they'll release another patch for given this is quite a pain for developers and users of small business apps.
Rather than disable Defender or SmartScreen I chose to add my deployment website to the Trusted Sites in Internet Explorer and that then re-instated the warning dialog and my app updated and ran as before.
Really annoying given the nature of the issue and how long it took to figure out, but at the same time I had to use IE today, which is a rare event nowadays.
This works for me...Warn doesnt warn anymore...
After running in the same problem, I just found that my application was going to halt after a stupid uncaught exception.
Despite the fact that the image below is in Portuguese, Event Viewer shows the right error cause.
In my case, was a corrupted settings file!
It appears as though some subsequent Windows Updates have fixed the issue on several of our PC's that were previously experiencing the issue.
Check for the updates listed here.
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4338548
Running winver.exe will show you which build you have.
I try to update my windows but I got this message:
I tried to reboot service but it didn't work.
Current version of my laptop: Version 1709 (OS Build 16299.192)
I am afraid this will be affected to future releases.
I recently had a similar problem on my PC and my laptop. My error code was as follows:
2018-08 Update for Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems (KB4023057) - Error 0x80070643
After much kafuffle and reading quite a few articles and Microsoft waffle pages I decided to do it my own "straightforward" way. This is my story, if it helps you I am content. Summary:
Close/save all open applications;
Run Windows Update TroubleShooter;
Find the latest Cumulative Update;
Run the Cumulative Update;
Allow the computer to do the necessary restart processing.
The description below is what I did. It worked both times for me; firstly on my PC and secondly on my laptop. The difference with my laptop was that I didn't repeat the download of the Cumulative Update as I had already done this for the PC, I just ported the Update to the laptop via USB; everything else was the same.
On the laptop the whole process took about 40 minutes, start to finish. I didn't time it on my PC as I was doing things in slow stages. The download of the update is quite large (900Mb) so watch out for download charges if your ISP makes you pay for such things.
All descriptions/statements below apply solely to me. I am describing what I did and what I think. Like with Microsoft and others, any decision by you to follow any aspect of my description is entirely at your own risk. For any "lawyers" out there, any reference to "you" or implications that I am telling you what to do is just an unintended flaw in my poor English grammar.
Save and close all the applications that are being used:
The Cumulative Update will requires a restart of the computer so, for me, it was best to save any data now and close all the applications I had open in an orderly manner.
Find and run the Windows Update TroubleShooter:
Search the web for "Windows Update TroubleShooter". The page I ended up on was this:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4027322/windows-update-troubleshooter
Click the appropriate download link on this page. I am running Windows 10 (Version 1709; x64) so, for me it was: "Download Troubleshooter for Windows 10"; it was a small file, around 200Kb.
The download file was "wu170509.diagcab". I always "Save > Virus check > and then run".
Run the Troubleshooter (I double-clicked it);
On its first page, click "Advanced", then ensure "Apply repairs automatically" is checked, and finally click "Run as administrator". It reloads itself, click "Next" and let it run.
Whenever it found a problem I chose the "Apply this fix" option.
When it reports that it has completed, close the TroubleShooter.
This took me about 10 minutes to do (I am slow and I was also trying to make a cup of tea!).
Find the computer's details:
Load the Settings page; right-click the Windows "Start" icon -> Settings -> System -> About.
Note the following:
Under Device Specifications, note the System Type (mine is 64 bit "x64")
Under Windows Specifications, note the Edition, Version and OS Build details.
Find and run the Microsoft Update Catalogue:
Open a browser (mine is Internet Explorer) in Admin mode ("Run as Administrator" from its icon's Context Menu - I don't know why you have to do this but you get an error otherwise on IE);
Search the web for "Microsoft Update Catalogue"; the page I ended up on was this:
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/home.aspx
Search for the latest Cumulative update for your version. I entered the following search terms that relate to my system in this year "2018 cumulative update windows 10 1709 x64";
Top of my returned list (the latest cumulative update) was:
2018-09 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems (KB4464217)
Note its KB number and click on its Title.
An "Update Details" window opens; click on the "More Information" link and a web page opens, mine was:
September 17, 2018—KB4464217 (OS Build 16299.666)
Verify the KB number with the Microsoft Catalog number just to make sure.
I only proceeded with this Update because its Build Number was greater than my current one (from section 3 above); for me, going backwards sounds like a route to a bigger mess.
Once I was content I was going forward I went back to the Microsoft Catalog (closing web pages and windows as necessary) and clicked the "Download" link for this Cumulative Update (KB4464217); a "Download" window appears. Click the link to download it (it says 863Mb). My download took 5 minutes via an Ethernet connection (no idea on timing regarding a WiFi download).
Run and check the Cumulative Update:
When the download had completed (and after virus checking it), I opened its folder and double-clicked the file therein and let it run. It took about 30 minutes to do its work. Once started it needed no help from me so I wandered off and did other work.
Once the Cumulative Update had completed I let it do its necessary restart. This is in fact a couple of restarts and took about another 10 minutes to complete.
Once these restarts had completed I loaded my system and did an immediate Windows Update. It returned with no errors and reported that my system was up to date - Yippee!
Notes:
A. There was one difference between updating my PC and laptop. On the PC my Desktop layout was undisturbed, on my laptop the Desktop layout was reset. I have no idea why the difference occurred.
B. In the middle of writing this, when I got to describing the Windows Update TroubleShooter, I decided to rerun the TroubleShooter on my PC. To my surprise it reported errors. I had done nothing of any significance since applying the Cumulative Update and checking it, just some simple Powershell stuff (Microsoft product) and a bit of internet browsing like news and football results (via Internet Explorer, another Microsoft product). It seems to me that Microsoft are screwing up their own Update System! What clever people they are - not.
Good Luck peoples - Pay It Forward.
The following Microsoft forum article suggests that it is a Windows Update glitch:
Update for Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems (KB4041994) — error 0x80070643.
The article further suggests that the OP there has the later build of Windows, and that the problem may be suppressed by hiding the update (how-to provided in the linked article).
I'm having weird issues with Xcode. I am trying to install the new Xcode 6 from the Mac App Store, but it got stuck at "4 minutes remaining".
Earlier I had Xcode6 GM which was working perfectly fine. I thought of downloading the new version from the App Store so I deleted the GM.
Did anybody else have the same issue?
I had the same problem.
Forgive the cliche, but I had to "turn it off, then on again" (reboot the MacBook) and only then could I re-click on the "Install" button, and it'd start downloading XCode, from scratch.
Previously, using the App Store "Check for unfinished downloads" just told me that I didn't have any downloads pending, yet in the App Store app, it had XCode stuck in the "Installing" state.
Update
It's that time again. iOS 8.4 has been released, but you can only get XCode to connect to an iOS 8.4 device if you've upgraded to XCode 6.4... but you can only do that if you've upgraded OS X to the latest version. Thanks, Apple.
And as usual, download times are appalling, even if (like me), you've waited a few weeks until after the release, to avoid the rush.
And when you finally do get to click on the Update button in App Store to update XCode, it changes to "Installing" but actually, it's busy spending the next few hours downloading, rather than installing anything.
You have to keep an eye on the download bar, just below the Launchpad icon on the taskbar, to check how far the painfully-slow download has got...
I'm really not impressed.
I quit App Store, then searched for XCode in my Applications folder, clicked it, after a few seconds the download status vanished and I was able to click it again and open the app.
If it's any help, I was in Software Update this morning updating to Xcode 6.2. For several minutes, the installer was also stuck at the 4 minutes remaining mark, and then started changing the time remaining (swapping between longer and shorter intervals). From what it looks like, this is a UI issue (probably not estimating all the time it takes to install all components), more than anything else...
After clicking Install on Xcode in the App Store I got a busy-indicator in the App Store window for a few seconds and then nothing, it still just read "Install" after leaving it sit overnight.
However, I was able to download the latest version of Xcode as a .dmg file at https://developer.apple.com/downloads. The installation process was smooth from there.
In App Store, try "Store" menu -> "Check for unfinished downloads..."
I had a similar problem. Mine was stuck on "Paused". To fix it, I went to "Applications" (command-click the old version in dock -> gets you there faster) and moved to trash the Xcode app that was 337 kb in size. Then rebooted, went to the App Store and started the installation again. Turns out mine was "paused" on 2.27 gb (though I simply left my mac unattended, since the download was taking forever, and returned hours later).
Hope this helps someone, as I could not find an answer to this myself anywhere else.
I got the same problem. I updated to the last version of OSX, and then the update came automatically as a a result of that update.
I have stuck many times, this saved me. Now you try your luck on this
Apple should really consider having some more indication of install progress. Hard seeing any progress with the bar alone when installations exceed a certain amount of time. But then again I see apples security considerations indicating more detailed logging of the progress. I guess they oversee the few situations when updates are in the gigabyte range.
It may seem like a cancellation of the install , and going on for a second time, gives a faster install. But I would guess thats only because some of the install progress is cached.
My tip is; wait it out.