configuration file missing

[fxguthri]

After updating and trying to install, I get a message saying "configuration file missing" and it tries to load a file, but nothing happens.

Suggestions, please.

[jsmorley]

Not sure. That doesn't look like an error that Rainmeter produces.

[fxguthri]

More exact . . .

"Product configuration is missing"

[jsmorley]

More exact . . .

"Product configuration is missing"

Still not an error that Rainmeter produces.

[jsmorley]

Sounds to me like the download of the Rainmeter installer might be corrupted.

The first thing I would do is run both MalwareBytes AntiMalware and whatever AntiVirus software you are using and check out your system, to be sure things that are being downloaded are not intercepted and somehow modified by some bad actor.

Then I would follow this:

https://docs.rainmeter.net/tips/clean-rainmeter-uninstall/

[fxguthri]

Indeed, you appear to be correct, as Malwarebytes did detect the the installer update was infected.
I do not think any update occurred due the malware, so I'll try the update direct from the Rainmeter web site.
Thank you very much for your help.

[jsmorley]

Indeed, you appear to be correct, as Malwarebytes did detect the the installer update was infected.
I do not think any update occurred due the malware, so I'll try the update direct from the Rainmeter web site.
Thank you very much for your help.

Sure. Glad to help. My very strong advice is to ONLY get the Rainmeter installer from https://www.rainmeter.net and nowhere else.

[balala]

I do not think any update occurred due the malware, so I'll try the update direct from the Rainmeter web site.

Just out of curiosity, where have you downloaded the installer from?

[fxguthri]

I got it from Filepuma at Glarysoft.com. Just d-l'd it again and the same issue recurs.

https://www.filepuma.com/updates3v2/44332001102019DD1569987224TTfjtkuaSWYiMbIgF6035d941a9874a12634356334/?src=10002&id=1&v=5.0.0.45

Malwarebytes again quarantined an ad installer (Adware.InstallCore) in C:\Windows\Temp\Scoped_Dir7868_963535777\Rainmeter_V4.3.1.EXE

Running W10 Pro w/all updates.

That's all I have. The Rainmeter update installer did NOT work.

[fxguthri]

Just the way I've been doing updates by using Glary Utilities - way too much to do get updates from every place I have programs for - it's always been a reliable source for years - this is the very first time it hasn't.
(Complacency? Perhaps. Trying to have a 'real' life and get away a bit from 40 years of working on computers? Definitely !)