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Glancer.exe?
Was looking through the Windows reliability report today, and noticed
that a particular app has been failing a lot recently week after week. The program is called Glancer.exe. It's located in the following path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\40622CannStudios.Glancer-YourPCVitalsataGlance_1.1.17.0_x64__81bpqsdd3gbhw\ VFS\Extracted\Glancer.exe Everything under the WindowsApps folder is protected, even from administrator access, so I can't get access to it. What could this be? There are literally millions of files in a modern Windows installation, and there's no way we can know everything that's been installed on your machine. Yousuf Khan |
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Glancer.exe?
Yousuf Khan wrote:
Was looking through the Windows reliability report today, and noticed that a particular app has been failing a lot recently week after week. The program is called Glancer.exe. It's located in the following path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\40622CannStudios.Glancer-YourPCVitalsataGlance_1.1.17.0_x64__81bpqsdd3gbhw\ VFS\Extracted\Glancer.exe Everything under the WindowsApps folder is protected, even from administrator access, so I can't get access to it. What could this be? There are literally millions of files in a modern Windows installation, and there's no way we can know everything that's been installed on your machine. Yousuf Khan It's semi-obvious from the naming convention that it's an App. https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/p/gl...ot:overviewtab And notice it's Free, and who knows whether Microsoft was stupid enough to "promote" it by placing it on your computer without your knowledge. I would have thought Free software would not be deserving of automated promotion like that, and only Freemium stuff with Pro features to purchase, would receive treatment like that. The Settings panel should have a section devoted to Apps. In the example, you can see I'm about to remove some "Flappy Birds" style of freebie. I also noticed in there, that the panel is set so I can "get Apps from anywhere, including outside the Store". No idea how that works. https://i.postimg.cc/fR8MKHDW/Settings-Apps.gif In the command line invocation here, there are two Powershell programs used. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html The first command, dumps a table of text. Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.3dbuilder* In there, is a "full name" for a package. That is piped to Remove-AppxPackage, and that program is looking for a certain keyword, and then it knows the full name is right next to that. If you're not careful, you can remove everything which doesn't have the "In-box" bit set. You cannot remove MSEdge, because the In-box bit indicates it's a system program. There are probably a few (spying) type things feeding Vortex, that you should not (ordinarily) be able to remove. And the In-box bit in the Apps database, is just a small part of the barriers to removal. And you're absolutely right - you can delete stuff. The steps would be: 1) compact /compactOS:never That decompresses at least some materials in the OS folders for easier access from Linux. 2) Boot a Linux LiveCD and try deleting. If you see "I/O error", that's not a bad sector. That's some metadata (Reparse Point) applied to a file, seemingly to prevent a Linux user from deleting stuff... Your Glancer looks suspicious, as if I was crafting crud to put in your OS, I'd certainly want to make crud that has all sorts of permissions it wants. As then my little App could have its way with your privacy. Have fun, Paul |
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Glancer.exe?
Yousuf Khan wrote:
Was looking through the Windows reliability report today, and noticed that a particular app has been failing a lot recently week after week. The program is called Glancer.exe. It's located in the following path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\40622CannStudios.Glancer-YourPCVitalsataGlance_1.1.17.0_x64__81bpqsdd3gbhw\ VFS\Extracted\Glancer.exe Everything under the WindowsApps folder is protected, even from administrator access, so I can't get access to it. What could this be? There are literally millions of files in a modern Windows installation, and there's no way we can know everything that's been installed on your machine. https://cannstudios.com/ Click on the eyeball icon (left end of bottom row) for their projects to see they produce the Glancer app. The description has a link to: http://glancer.co/ The Help link provides almost nothing for help other than to state it is a beta app which is free for now but may change to payware. Paul already gave you the URL to the app page at Microsoft's Store site. The author is CannStudios (named for its owner, Mike Cann) who also has a Github profile at https://github.com/mikecann, a very small LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/company/cannstudios, a Twitter profile at http://twitter.com/mikeysee, and a Facebook profile at http://facebook.com/cannyshammy (which appears a broken or deleted profile; however, I filter out any Facebook crap along with other social-needy sites). This app doesn't look to be anything from Microsoft. You sure you didn't install it? It isn't listed as an app under Start - Settings - System - Apps & Features under CannStudios or Glancer? |
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Glancer.exe?
On 2/17/2019 2:02 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
This app doesn't look to be anything from Microsoft. You sure you didn't install it? It isn't listed as an app under Start - Settings - System - Apps & Features under CannStudios or Glancer? No, the only thing I see under Apps & Features is Microsoft Edge. |
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Glancer.exe?
Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 2/17/2019 2:02 PM, VanguardLH wrote: This app doesn't look to be anything from Microsoft. You sure you didn't install it? It isn't listed as an app under Start - Settings - System - Apps & Features under CannStudios or Glancer? No, the only thing I see under Apps & Features is Microsoft Edge. Did you also click on "Programs and Features" to see if it was a program instead of an app? https://www.tenforums.com/attachment... e697e3375dcd (Apps shown on left, programs shown on right.) In Windows/File Explorer's address bar, enter "shell:AppsFolder". The app folder path you mentioned not there? If not there, that would explain the error if, say, there was a scheduled event in Task Scheduler or a startup entry to run the program that no longer exists. You could use SysInternals' AutoRuns to search for glancer.exe to see how it might be getting loaded by a scheduled event or startup entry. You could clear the local cache of the Store apps by running "wsreset.exe" and check the apps list again. See: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/reset...ws-store-cache |
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