Today Grindstone offered a new update and I agreed to install it. The update failed with the error: GS4Update.exe - Application Error The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000022). Click OK to close the application. Now whenever I try to start Grindstone itself, I get the same erro…

We’ve altered the setup program to do this for you automatically. Please see this post: [image] 2020.03.15 Release Notes Releases 2020.03.16-2 Hot Fix This hot fixes the following issue reported earlier today: If you’re having this problem, complete these steps: use…

Please open the windows event log viewer, then try to launch Grindstone, then refresh the windows event log log. Do you see anything in there that might be relevant?

Thank you for the response. The event log shows that McAfee Endpoint Security prevented the GS4UPDATE to run: EventID=18060 [User] ran GS4UPDATE.EXE, which tried to access C:\WINDOWS\, violating the rule “Malware - Unsigned Processes in Untrusted Locations”, and was blocked. For information about…

Here’s an idea. Try opening your temporary directory (just type %TEMP% into the file browser) and see if the Grindstone updater is in there. And if you find it in there, delete it. Does that fix it? If figuring out exactly how to do that is too much of a bother, I think the Windows disk cleanup too…

Thank you very much for the prompt reaction! Deleting the installer in the %temp% directory already helped with the issue, and as it still wanted to update then I followed your instructions in the latest post and installed the newest version. Everything is working again now. Thanks again!

That worked for me as well. I had opened a helpdesk case here because I saw the malware message and thought it might be an issue with something here. But I followed your instructions and that worked for me. Thanks for getting on this as quick as you did!

Grindstone 4 Update not working and disabling application

Grindstone 4

daniel.henry (Daniel Henry) March 16, 2020, 8:24pm 5

We’ve altered the setup program to do this for you automatically. Please see this post:

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