If no one else has been able to help you further, maybe I’ll see if I can find my Win7 virtual machine later this week or this weekend, and see if I can replicate the problem.

That makes me wonder if the developer changed something in gup.exe or updated libcurl.dll to a version that isn’t compatible with Win7 anymore… I don’t have any Win7 machines to test on, unfortunately. Using a search engine on your error message shows that other people have similar error messages in many other applications, and at least one page showed that the error happened with Win7 but not with Win10 when trying to access a website via HTTPS from inside the application. Or are you saying that you’ve already updated to v8.1.2, but when you try to run after completing the installation, it gives you that error?.exe, did you run it normally or did you use “run as administrator” to give it elevated privileges for installation? If running from Update Notepad++ menu entry, did it ask you to elevate permission? Or were you already running Notepad++ in Admin Mode when you launched Update Notepad++?.Did you use ?-menu Update Notepad++ ? Or did you manually download the v8.1.2 installer and run it?.Are you really trying to update starting at v8.1.2? Or did you really start the process from an earlier version of Notepad++ (and if so, which version did you start from)?.Given the “initializesecuritycontext”, I am thinking that Notepad++ is having a hard time asking the OS for the elevated privileges needed to do the update.Īlso, if your debug info is correct and you already have v8.1.2 installed, why are you still trying to update? That’s already the newest-released version … and in fact the auto-updater is still looking for v8.1.1, so it shouldn’t even try to install anything.

How to manually update notepad++