# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Windows update stalls on cua-driver interactive installer

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

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.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 2 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #95129. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #95129 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-95008`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.50`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #87703: Windows: hermes update hangs ~11 min on cua-driver refresh — interactive install.ps1 (UAC/user prompt) invoked from hidden non-interactive PowerShell

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#95008: Windows auto-update no longer stalls 11 min on cua-driver's interactive installer (#87703, salvage #94296)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - 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 · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/tools_config.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_install_cua_driver.py`
- **#87720: fix(update): bound the cua-driver installer drain after a failed kill**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `65fada094`, `#95129`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #95129 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-26`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`