I wonder if 23H2 (The update began rolling out on October 31, 2023) has anything to do with it. I haven't tested anything, btw - this is not really my cup of tea - pinging the bat boffins @earthlng

Can you tell me if this has ever worked for you on that machine, and if so when did it start failing?

hang on - it's in the wiki - https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/3.4-Apply-&-Update-&-Maintain#-update-error

My best guess is that you are blocking it - anti virus, firewall, pihole, etc

Can you tell me if this has ever worked for you on that machine, and if so when did it start failing?

It's never worked on this machine. I first tried it about 2 days before I created the issue.

OK, so the issue is not that it doesn't work, but that "something" is blocking it. If we can work it out, I can edit the wiki - e.g. windows 10/11 home users, do "this"

Actually, IDK - it could be the script because that error message is from the script

can you do this?

Seems to work fine.

hi,
please remove >nul 2>&1 from line 225 and run it again. This will show the error message in the console.
Let us know what the message says, thanks.

Would you mind running Get-ChildItem env:\__PSLockDownPolicy and posting the result?
Thanks

Thanks.
As I suspected, updater.bat runs PowerShell, and PowerShell is running in Constrained Language Mode. You will probably need to disable CLM while running the updater (I think deleting the environment variable is enough).

Setting the environment variable __PSLockdownPolicy to 8 worked and now updater.bat runs without issue. Thanks for the help.

how did you set the environment variable, why chose 8? - so I can add the info to the wiki - TIA

I did it by opening the Start menu and searching "environment variables". This should pull up "Edit the system environment variables" from the Control Panel. You click on the result, then click on "Environment Variables" at the bottom of the window that pops up. In the window that opens, you can look for "__PSLockdownPolicy" in the list labelled "System variables", and set its value to 8 by selecting it and clicking "Edit...". I set it to 8 as that corresponds to the FullLanguage language mode, according to StackOverflow.

updated the wiki - thanks for troubleshooting @PencilVoid 🍕 🍺 🍰