Can't upgrade comskip, comskip.exe in use?

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donator73ag
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Can't upgrade comskip, comskip.exe in use?

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I am trying to upgrade to a newer comskip. I tried to unzip the donator files over the existing comskip files. It can't unzip the comskip.exe and I can't delete the old comskip.exe I removed comskip and dvrms file watcher from startup what else do I need to do?


Thanks,

Craig
erik
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Re: Can't upgrade comskip, comskip.exe in use?

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Start task manager and check if comskip.exe is running.
If so, kill it.
donator73ag
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Re: Can't upgrade comskip, comskip.exe in use?

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Thanks Erik,

I had already tried killing comskip to no avail. In the end I was able to remove and update by booting into safe mode to make the changes.
indolent
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Re: Can't upgrade comskip, comskip.exe in use?

Post by indolent »

I had the same issue. comskip.exe was not even shown as running in task manager. I tried stopping the dtbservice also with no luck. Nothing had recorded in the past 12 hours. Not sure why it says it is running.

I had to boot into safe mode to replace it as well.
erik
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Re: Can't upgrade comskip, comskip.exe in use?

Post by erik »

YOu need to enable "show programs from all users" in the task manager
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