I was previously on v5.2.3 and noticed an odd behavior just over the past several days.
Upon waking from sleep, PatchmyPC would load up, quit, and load up again. Has anyone else noticed this behavior?
I checked for updates and saw v5.3 was available, so I updated and will be monitoring for this behavior moving forward.
Hey
@waylo,
We did fix an issue in 5.3.0 that likely caused what you are seeing: https://patchmypc.com/release-notes/production-release/home-updater-releases/
FixesResolved an issue where the app could hang if launched via the self-update scheduled task when no update was available.
Thank you for the reply.
I updated to 5.3 and unfortunately continued to have the same issue. Because I am running the portable version, I thought just renaming, moving, or deleting the portable exe would fix this. Unfortunately it did not.
I did some deep sleuthing on my computer and made sure no other instances of PatchMyPC existed. I looked at all the startup folder/startup registry entries and confirmed PatchMyPC was not there.
I finally discovered an extremely odd situation.
Within C:/Users/ was a single file that was the same first word of my user name, without any extension. Carefully examining the contents, it was a copy of the portable PatchmyPC executable, CRC matched. The file date of creation was several days ago, when this phenomenon started happening.
It seems unbelievable, and I don't understand how this file ended up there, and renamed. I removed it, and the bizarre pop ups have stopped. Re-running Patchmypc portable has not recreated this misplaced file.
I could find only 2 other queries (unrelated to PatchmyPC) involving this strange happening:
https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/ae2207/user_file_trying_to_open_on_windows_10_startup/
https://superuser.com/questions/1131114/windows-opening-file-c-users-david-on-startup
It seems Windows 10 will automatically attempt to run individual files located within the C:/Users/ directory without user interaction.