# Scrivener for Windows - Update exits before it starts

**URL:** <https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-for-windows-update-exits-before-it-starts/124456>\
**Category:** Scrivener for Windows\
**Tags:** bug, installation\
**Created:** [November 19, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-for-windows-update-exits-before-it-starts/124456 "2021-11-19T13:47:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![escoles](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@escoles](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/escoles)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-for-windows-update-exits-before-it-starts/124456/1 "2021-11-19T13:47:59Z")

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Scrivener for Windows (3.1.0.0 on Windows 10 Pro 21H2) prompts on startup to update to 3.1.1.0.

Once the download completes, the ‘install now’ button activates. If I click it, the Update dialog exits, Scrivener closes, & nothing happens.

This is robustly repeatable on one system (HP EliteDesk, Windows 10 Pro, across 2 minor versions), but does not happen on the other (LG Gram notebook, Windows 10 Pro).

Presumably I can upgrade by just running the current installer (IIRC that’s been true in the past), so this isn’t really a stopper for me – point of this is to bring it to awareness & see if anyone else is experiencing it.

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**Author:** ![JimRac](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/jimrac/32/16153_2.png) [@JimRac](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/JimRac)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-for-windows-update-exits-before-it-starts/124456/2 "2021-11-25T17:08:33Z")

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> [@escoles](#):
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> point of this is to bring it to awareness & see if anyone else is experiencing it.

Yes, there have been a few posts that this has happened to folks. Workaround, as you mention, is to download the update from [L&L’s download page](https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/download).

Best,  
Jim

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**Author:** ![escoles](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@escoles](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/escoles)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2021, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-for-windows-update-exits-before-it-starts/124456/3 "2021-11-25T17:25:30Z")

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yeah, i’m not experiencing any issues that lead me to believe I _need_ the update, so I’m going to wait for the next minor version & see if the behavior persists. If it does, I’ll do the offline update. (I try to be strategically lazy about things like that…yet here I am answering this. What, you want logic?!)