[PD] Midway Solved: HELP: Pure Data Vanilla v.0.54-0 under Windows 10 22H2 64-bit is not running!

[Linux ROUEN Normandie]

Hello Lucarda,

I don't think I have to visit my church for praying to find the solution 
to my bloody Windows issue!

Now, your speculation is fully RIGHT! 😉
Since my July 11th email (with your excerpt here below) I have sent 2 
other emails going into your direction. Unfortunately they are not 
arrived to the Pd-List. I need to investigate why and as currently I'm 
not on my production PC I can't have access to them.

So to summarize them in few words:
- Effectively I have discovered a very weird behavior of my Windows 10 
Avast Antivirus (free version).
- Sometime, not always, Avast is silently blacklisting apps which is the 
case here with at least "Pd.com and/or Pd.exe v.0.54.0". It was not the 
case with Pd v.0.53.2 or previous ones.
- But also sometime when this is not done silently and you create an 
exception for a given app, Avast continue to manage it as a threat 
ignoring your exception declaration.
- I need to further investigate it when I will have again access to my 
production PC.

Why when I'm trying to explain and explain again and again to my 
relatives, friends and students that the free ("libre" in French) & 
opensource GNU/Linux distributions are much better (technically and 
philosophically) and safer than the proprietary Microsoft Windows, most 
of them don't want to listen to me!?
The bad habits have a very hard time! 😛

Thanks again,
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Best, Joseph Gastelais
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Le 12/07/2023 à 01:58, Lucas Cordiviola a écrit :
> On 11/07/2023 13:50, Linux ROUEN wrote:
>> I'm really and totally lost!
>> (Unfortunately) my electronic music students mainly use Windows, so I 
>> do need during this summer to fix this issue on my laptop.
>
> try downloading again the zip package from Miller's site an test it.
>
> if the problem persist you can use the "Debuged" app that is running 
> fine for you (for your classes).
>
> but then if you have time to backup all your files, do it and format 
> your Windows partition and reinstall the OS. there might be some weird 
> combo from Antivirus or blaklisted stuff on your system.
>
> as a recap of your situation:
>
>   - your first mail included screen-shots of the installer being 
> unable to write files and you told us later that you only have an 
> "admin" account.
>
>     - this is strange: the only thing i can think of is that Pd was 
> running when you tried to install a newer version.
>
>       - this could have trigger the OS to blacklist the app (this is 
> pure speculation)
>
>
> If I where you i'll backup all my files and reinstall the OS.
>
> if the problem persists we have no idea whats going on and hope pray 
> no other Win10 user get into a similar situation.
>
> Lucarda
>
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