Uninstaller is unable to stop IPFS Desktop

[socketdown]

• OS: Windows 10
• Version of IPFS Desktop 0.20.5 (edit: still present in 0.20.6)

Describe the bug
Unable to uninstall IPFS Desktop due to IPFS Desktop still running, but no IPFS process is running.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Try to uninstall IPFS Desktop via Windows Settings
2. Confirm notification "IPFS Desktop is running, click OK to close"
3. The uninstaller is unable to close IPFS Desktop

The catch is, that IPFS is not running at all. There is no service nor background process related to IPFS running.

My recommendation is to make the error more detailed, eg. print the name of the offending process.

The next section is more speculation than anything, but I suspect that the uninstaller looks for the phrase "IPFS Desktop" in the currently running processes, while the uninstaller itself uses it in its process name.

[lidel]

@SgtPooki @hacdias do you have a Windows box to see if this is reproducible?

[hacdias]

Hi @lidel @socketdown

Unfortunately I am not able to reproduce this error. I tried uninstalling IPFS Desktop on Windows with both IPFS Desktop running and not running and both worked successfully. Videos in attachment.

Uninstall.IPFS.Desktop.Running.mov

Uninstall.IPFS.Desktop.Not.Running.mov

[lidel]

Thank you @hacdias !

We were not able to reproduce on Windows 11, and we have no bandwidth to support older versions of Windows platform.
Please upgrade, if possible. If you experience the same problem on the latest version of Windows, let us know – it could be caused by some third-party software etc.