Upgrade issues: Installer fails to start SW. Hotkey not functional after starting manually

[mzso]

So far I upgraded twice. And this happened both times. Not much to add to SW not starting.
The hotkey fails to function until a system reboot. Or if I rebind the hotkey to something else and then back to the original. Both are cumbersome workarounds.

[Belphemur]

Hello mzso,

Which version of SoundSwitch ?

Can you try to do a clean re-install ?

[mzso]

@Belphemur commented on 2020. máj. 17. 19:25 CEST:

Hello mzso,

Which version of SoundSwitch ?

The last two. So now I'm on 5.1

Didn't mention it but I'm on Windows 8.1.

[Belphemur]

Can you uninstall the beta 5.1 You shouldn't have issue with the 5.0.4. The beta is unstable. Sent from Nine

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Hello mzso, Which version of SoundSwitch ?

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[mzso]

It's exactly the same. Except it also fails to close the running SW instance.
And when I tried to double click on it it crashed twice.

[mzso]

And it keeps harassing me with the beta version download even though I just disabled the option to look for beta versions.

Furthermore it shows to be 5.1.0.32818, even though I ran the "SoundSwitch_v5.0.4.31153_Release_Installer.exe" installer.

[mzso]

Tried installing with the remove settings option, and now it freezes instantly. When I try to open it...

[Belphemur]

1. Uninstall the version you're using
2. Remove all data (the uninstaller will ask if you want to do this)
3. Download 5.0.4
4. Install it

It should resolve your issue.

[mzso]

I experienced much of the same issues with stable. Upgrading to 5.3.0 seems to have went fine. (Though annoyingly .net was required to be upgraded)
But then I got the notification again, so I tried that as well. The installer failed to start SW, functionality broke, it crashed when I clicked the icon. And it wasn't successfully upgraded. But this time at least a restart fixed it. I could run the installer again and this time it succeeded.

[Belphemur]

Sorry, I'm not supporting Windows 8.1 ^^' (didn't see your edit before).

Only 7 & 10.
And even 7 support is deprecated now.