Something very odd happened this morning; wonder if anyone could help:
I have Loom (an audio/video recording software) on my laptop, however, I almost never use it. This morning, it somehow decided to open itself without any request on my end (although I don’t think it was actually recording anything.)
Since it’s a 600 megabyte software and I almost never use it, I decided to uninstall it. But when I tried, the computer said “Loom is running and cannot be uninstalled while running.” So I rebooted my laptop.
When I rebooted, I ran a Bitdefender scan of the whole laptop and the antivirus said the computer was clean of malware. I then went to try to uninstall the Loom software but found it was gone - it had apparently been uninstalled on its own.
Is this some periodic glitch and/or does some hidden malware do this? And did my rebooting of the laptop just cause the uninstall process to resume on its own upon boot-up?
One possibility is that it started because of a background update for Loom. Some software packages will periodically check for updates and may auto-install them. Having Loom start up may have been a side effect an update.
As for the uninstall, what probably happened is that it was mostly uninstalled at first, but some of the files could not be deleted because there were some Loom processes still running that had those files opened. When you rebooted, the uninstaller was able to finish the cleanup and remove those files. I’ve seen that behavior before with other apps. Typically there’s a message like “You must reboot your computer to complete the uninstall” or something.
When I saw the thread title, my first thought was 'I don’t know what loom is, but I wonder if it shares any software with Bambu".
I just bought one of those a few weeks ago. Nothing happened to mine but the people on the bambu Reddit sub were (rightfully) flipping out about it.
I haven’t had any issues with this machine, but I know how much work it can be to deal with a ‘regular’ printer when they get filament melted and tangled into the hot end. With this one, it might be easier to replace the whole hot end rather than try to clean it out. There’s a lot more going on in there than there is in my Ender3.
This is probably what did it. You attempted to uninstall, but the program was running in the background or doing whatever it was doing and the uninstall couldn’t be completed while it was running. A lot of programs can’t be removed while they are running and require a reboot to complete the uninstall. You rebooted, the program could now complete the uninstall, and so it did.
