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Windows update stalls on cua-driver interactive installer

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #95129 on 26 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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Windows auto-update stalls for ~11 minutes because the cua-driver installer runs interactively (with UAC/user prompts) from a hidden, non-interactive PowerShell context. Work includes bounding drain time after a failed kill and making the update path unattended-safe.

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  • #95008 Windows auto-update no longer stalls 11 min on cua-driver's interactive installer (#87703, salvage #94296)

    merged to main

    files: hermes_cli/tools_config.py, hermes_cli/update_cmd.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_install_cua_driver.py

  • #95129 Windows auto-update refreshes cua-driver again — unattended-safe, hangs fail in seconds (salvage #79871 #87720 #87196)

    merged to main

    files: hermes_cli/tools_config.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_install_cua_driver.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1

  • #87720 fix(update): bound the cua-driver installer drain after a failed kill · merged via another change → 65fada0, #95129
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#87703Windows: hermes update hangs ~11 min on cua-driver refresh — interactive install.ps1 (UAC/user prompt) invoked from hidden non-interactive PowerShell
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26 Aug 2026

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