[BUG] I can`t use the bundled winget.exe

[Waboath]

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Describe your issue

Hello,

if i start wingetui i see nothing under installed packages.

so i used the bundled winget.exe with powershell and i get also nothing.

I think something in a fresh installed windows 11 is blocking.

win ver: 22H2 Build. 22621.2428 normal user (non admin)

Steps to reproduce the issue

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WingetUI Log

🟢 Using cached lang file
🟡 Using bundled lang file (forced=True)
🔵 It took 0.0 to load all language files
🟢 checkQueue Thread started!
🟡 Chocolatey was not found on the default location, perhaps a portable WingetUI installation?
🔵 Language file up-to-date
🔵 Starting main application...
🔵 Looking for alive instances...
🟡 Found lock file(s), reactivating...
🔵 Reloading Winget sources...
🔵 Loading WingetUI AUMID...
🔵 Starting update check
 * Serving Flask app 'WingetUI backend'
 * Debug mode: off
WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment. Use a production WSGI server instead.
 * Running on http://localhost:7058
Press CTRL+C to quit
🟢 Downloaded latest metadata to local file from url https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marticliment/WingetUI/main/WebBasedData/screenshot-database-v2.json
🔵 Loaded metadata from local file
🟢 Found valid aumid {6D809377-6AF0-444B-8957-A3773F02200E}\WingetUI\wingetui.exe
🔵 Version URL: https://www.marticliment.com/versions/wingetui.ver
🟢 Updates not found
🔵 Reactivation signal ignored: RaiseWindow_[1698846904.2268746]
{'sudoFound': True, 'sudoVersion': 'gsudo v2.0.4 (Branch.tags-v2.0.4.Sha.506efa024af0cef6e4b0cfec42e0c8c5d0b1472c)\r', 'ScoopFound': False, 'ScoopVersion': 'Scoop ist deaktiviert', 'ChocolateyFound': False, 'ChocolateyVersion': 'Chocolatey ist deaktiviert', 'PipFound': False, 'PipVersion': 'Pip ist deaktiviert', 'NpmFound': False, 'NpmVersion': 'Npm ist deaktiviert', '.NET ToolFound': False, '.NET ToolVersion': '.NET Tool ist deaktiviert', 'WingetFound': True, 'WingetVersion': ''}
🔵 Reached main ui load milestone
🟢 Discover tab loaded successfully
🟢 Total packages: 0
🟢 Update tab loaded successfully
🟢 Searching for string ""
🔵 Reloading sources...
🔵 Reloading Winget sources...
🔵 Reloading Scoop sources...
🟢 Uninstall tab loaded successfully
🔵 Starting Winget search for installed packages
🟢 Searching for string ""
🟢 Winget search for installed packages finished with 0 result(s)
🟠 Chocolatey got too few installed packages, retrying
🔵 Starting Winget search for installed packages
🟢 Winget search for installed packages finished with 0 result(s)
🟢 Starting winget source search...
🟢 Starting winget source search...
🟢 Settings tab loaded!
🟢 winget source search finished
🟢 winget source search finished
🟢 About tab loaded!
🔵 Starting Winget search for updates
🟢 Winget search for updates finished with 0 result(s)
🟢 Main application loaded...
🔵 Starting Winget search for installed packages
🟢 Searching for string ""
🟢 Winget search for installed packages finished with 0 result(s)
🟠 Chocolatey got too few installed packages, retrying
🔵 Starting Winget search for installed packages
🟢 Searching for string ""
🟢 Searching for string ""
🟢 Searching for string ""
🟡 Can't get custom interval time! (got value was '')
🟢 Total packages: 0
🟢 Winget search for installed packages finished with 0 result(s)
🟢 Searching for string ""
🟢 Searching for string ""
🟢 Total packages: 0
🔵 Starting Winget search for installed packages
🟢 Searching for string ""
🟢 Winget search for installed packages finished with 0 result(s)
🟠 Chocolatey got too few installed packages, retrying
🔵 Starting Winget search for installed packages
🟢 Winget search for installed packages finished with 0 result(s)
🟢 Searching for string ""
🟢 Searching for string ""
🟢 Total packages: 0
🔵 Loading WingetUI log...
🔵 Starting update check
🔵 Version URL: https://www.marticliment.com/versions/wingetui.ver
🟢 Updates not found
🔵 Loading WingetUI log...
🔵 Copying log to the clipboard...
🔵 Loading WingetUI log...

Package Managers Logs

Outputs from package managers on the current session:
 ---------Winget---------Winget

---------Winget

---------Winget---------Winget---------Winget
---------Winget

Relevant information

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Screenshots and videos

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[marticliment]

Hello,

Have you tried reinstalling WingetUI?

How did you install wingetui in first place?

[Waboath]

Hello,

yes i reinstalled wingetui three times. I installed it for all users. The funny thing is, after i installed it for the first it works after a reboot i won't work again.

[marticliment]

Do you have any antivirus that could be interfiering?

[Waboath]

I use only windows defender.

[DrStrange]

I have the same issue in Windows 10. Winget and Pip are set as the package managers. WingetUI shows installed packages for Pip but shows no packages for winget. WingetUI's winget shows no packages in PowerShell. Reset/reinstall/reset MS App Installer does not fix it. Packages showed ok for several days/reboots after installing, now there are no packages listed. The same thing happened on my other PC. Installed packages show ok when using system winget in experimental settings or when using WingetUI as an administrator. I only use Windows Defender.

There are no sources listed for winget in its settings. Where they should be shown, it says Loading... but when I try to add them they fail to add as WingetUI says they already exist:

[Stibax]

I have the exact same issue, only difference i have from DrStrange, if i select from experimental option to use system winget, the problem still exist. Only if i run wingetUI with admin privileges it seems to work. I have windows 11.

[Stibax]

Hi, i have found the solution, it's not a problem of wingetui, i have uninstall dev-home from the app store and that cause the downgrade of winget, so the system messed-up. Now with use system winget it works. The same problem of ather still exist if don't use the sytem one.

[redactedscribe]

Just curious, is it possible to use the winget-cli executable already installed on the system rather than the bundled WingetUI one? It bothers me to have two possibly differing winget versions installed at the same time.

Edit: Found the answer (although experimental):

[DrStrange]

Just to report, I used the fix in #1721 and also deleted these folders:

C:\Users\<ADMIN-USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\WinGet\defaultState\ C:\Users\<NON-ADMIN-USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\WinGet\defaultState\

I now am able to view the list of installed packages using WingetUI's bundled winget instead of using the system winget. I also uninstalled WingetUI and rebooted then reinstalled it. I am using WingetUI 2.2.0 installed only in my standard user account in Windows 10 22H2. Hope this also works for you, @Waboath @Stibax