Here’s something I’ve not seen before. As is my usual practice, I ran winget upgrade --all --include-unknown this morning. Upon returning to WinTerm after it was done I noticed something odd. The version number in the release notes for PowerToy (open automatically after any release) was higher than the target version in the Winget uprade info. Upon closer examination, I determined this is a case where PowerToys gets “double upgrade”. Let me explain…
How PowerToys Gets Double Upgrade
Indeed, winget took PowerToys to the targeted version (0.102.2862.0). But in the meantime, the PowerToys (PT) team released a higher-numbered version (0.102.2883.0). And because I have PT configured to auto-update upon launch, once the winget driven update finished, the program itself took care of the second one on its own.
For a split second, I wondered about possible pixies — or gremlins, maybe. Then I realized it’s all baked into the way the app itself behaves. Here in Windows-World what looks like a mystery can just be the way things look odd sometimes, even as they do what they’re supposed to.
That’s what passes for entertainment these days here at Chez Tittel. And I admit, I’m both entertained and bemused.
Edge Rears Its Install Technology Head
Speed reader that I am I also initially conflated the message from Edge — entirely in character and seen many times before, BTW — with what PowerToys was doing. Not so. I just had to run the updater inside Edge itself and this momentary hiccup also cleared.
Keeping things updated is as much about remembering edge cases and exceptions as it is about following the channel in the river of new packages continuously showing up via winget. I do have to remind myself about that occasionally. But again: it’s all in good fun here in Windows-World.
