Installation Bug?
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I am a newbie and installed Notepad++ v8.8.3 today. I ran the installation executable and it halted about 95% through the process after extracting NppShell.dll and starting an execute statement. (I could not see which file it executed).
I had to kill the process and ran the installation file again with the same result but with the slight variant that a Notepad++ icon appeared on the desktop and the application seems to work.Does anyone have any ideas as to what happened and how I can cure the problem?
PC is:
OS = MS Windows 11 Pro for Workstations, Version 10.0.26100 Build 26100
System = Dell Precision 7920 Tower
Processor = 2 x Intel® Xeon® Silver 4208 CPU @ 2.10GHz, 2095 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. 2.48.0, 09/06/2025
SMBIOS Version 3.2
BIOS Mode UEFI
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 96.0 GB -
Installation often requires UAC privileges, especially for something like activating the NppShell.dll. I know there are rare times where Windows doesn’t pop the UAC elevation request to the front, so when that happens, you might want to
Alt+Taband see if Windows is hiding the permission request. (I’m not an expert on the installer process – though there are some regulars here who are – so if that doesn’t solve it, you might have to wait for someone else to chime in.)
