On an on-site visit, the Arturia installer sat on “installing” for about half an hour because a pop-up it was waiting on had opened behind the Arturia window.
I was installing an Arturia plug-in on a client’s computer, and the MIDI Control Center part of the install got stuck on installing. It stayed there for about half an hour. I wasn’t sitting watching it, as I was getting on with other things while it ran.
The reason it had stuck was a pop-up that had appeared behind the Arturia window, where we couldn’t see it. It was telling us we needed to close something. I think it was asking us to close another program, but I can’t be sure which one.
It’s a good habit to close your DAW before installing plug-ins anyway. On a long install like Arturia’s, it’s easy to forget.
It was quite a trivial thing, but I thought it was worth writing up. This kind of hidden pop-up is quite common, and legacy installers can also interact with Windows 11 in strange ways.
When an installer has been on installing for a long time, it’s sometimes worth checking the windows behind it for a pop-up or error message.
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