Installation takes looooong time

mr10008

Hi,

Since quite a while the new updates started to take long time to install. But the latest one 8.9.2 32 bit never completes. It gets stuck on installing nppshell.dll file. I have to kill the process to end the installation.
I’m running Win 11, 64 bit.
How to fix it?
Thanks

PeterJones

@mr10008 ,

That’s weird. I know that last year, while Notepad++ and it’s associated installer and DLLs were self-signed, some AntiVirus software would pause/halt the installation. But that should have been fixed last year when Notepad++ moved to the new GlobalSign signature.

My only thought is that for whatever reason, NppShell.dll is being write-protected while the rest of the installled executable and DLL and config files are not… which makes no sense to me, but maybe. If so, then I wonder if your taskbar shows the UAC icon () – if so, if you click on it, then Windows can ask you permission to let Notepad++ finish installing.

I am doubtful it’s the UAC, however, so I had been hoping that @xomx would chime in by now, in case he had other ideas for a solution, or questions that he can ask for clarification (as he’s really good at issues with the installer).