Bitwarden desktop not working or responding Win 11

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biscuit5
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Bitwarden desktop not working or responding Win 11

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Windows 11

Anyone else have/had this issue? Works fine in Chrome, but the desktop app would not launch :confused

I had to reinstall the program (though I did backup my vault first via Chrome)

Somewhat unsettling for a password program to do this? Seems very strange. Has never occurred before.
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Re: Bitwarden desktop not working or responding Win 11

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I always use the web, when things used to break in windows it was almost always windows.
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Re: Bitwarden desktop not working or responding Win 11

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nalor511 wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 6:49 pm I always use the web, when things used to break in windows it was almost always windows.
every Windows update messes something up, every time. Would not surprise me if that was the issue.
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Re: Bitwarden desktop not working or responding Win 11

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At least you still have your files.

I hope?
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Re: Bitwarden desktop not working or responding Win 11

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biscuit5 wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 6:47 pm Windows 11

Anyone else have/had this issue?.
To answer the specific question from the OP:
Bitwarden works fine for me in windows 11.
Also, there’s some confusion on this thread about backups, losing files, etc. To be clear, Bitwarden is a cloud based password manager. Doesn’t matter if one installation stopped working or even if the whole computer stopped working. Just reinstall Bitwarden and it will sync the passwords down from the cloud server.
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Re: Bitwarden desktop not working or responding Win 11

Post by leland »

I lose the Ctrl+shift+l shortcut on browser upgrades sometimes. Have had to reinstall the browser extension a few times.

No issues with the desktop app yet.
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Re: Bitwarden desktop not working or responding Win 11

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There is an active Bitwarden thread on Reddit. I think you'll get more feedback there.
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