Serviio

Hello Guys,

Just trying to update to 2.3 but having a bit of a weird experience. I'm unable to open the serviio installer. I get the UAC prompt but when I click yes to install nothing happens. Does not matter if I'm using admin permissions installing under compatibility for older windows etc. Since I was having issues I tried uninstalling Serviio but now I can't even get the old installer file (2.2.1) or a fresh download of the legacy version (1.10.1). Seems to be mainly a windows issue (I'm on windows 11) but it's got me completely stumped at this point. Any help or input would be appreacited.

I have no experience with Windows 11, as Microsoft deems every computer I have as ineligible for an upgrade. It sounds like they've made some sort of change to the User Access Control function. About all I can suggest is to open a command prompt as administrator and run the Serviio EXE from there. Sometimes that will override any permissions issue.

Not having any luck from CMD prompt. I've got an old PC that's not 11 eligible. I can test on that and follow up. I did download on my work PC just as a check and got a warning about the software but I obviously don't have admin rights there to move past it. Likely it's a windows issue like you highlighted. I'll keep plugging away and advise if I get around it somehow. Worst case I can always roll back my machine but that just seems painful for what should be a simple fix.

I upgraded my backup server to 2.3 yesterday without an issue. That's on the latest version of Windows 10.

Does Windows 11 have a compatibility mode to run an application so it thinks it's on an older version of Windows? It likely does. Right click on the Serviio install program and select Properties. There's a compatibility tab that allows you to select a different OS to emulate. On this Windows 10 PC, I can select Windows 8 all the way back to Windows 95. I would expect Windows 11 to have Windows 10 as an option.

Hey I loaded 2.3 onto my old PC and had no issues. I saved the install file to a flash drive and was able to install without issue. Seems to be some problem associated with the exe being flagged in Edge when I downloaded it. Definitely a Windows 11 issue. Glad I got a workaround though. Can't install the exe from my drive but works off the flash drive no problem. Thanks for reaching out!