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Dl4085
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Mar 21, 2021

Unknown app preventing restart

Today I tried to restart and update my laptop but there was an app called "cptmsg" preventing it from restarting. I tried googling what it is but nothing seems to explain what this is

I could also add that I wanted to restart my laptop because my WiFi suddenly stopped working on my laptop and my chrome tabs mentioned something about the a firewall. I'm not sure if this info is relevant or not. Once I restarted my WiFi started to work again.

What exactly is the app and what does it do? Is it something harmful to my laptop

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  • Hi,
    can you please mention which version/build of Windows 10 you are using?
    thanks
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      Dl4085
      Copper Contributor
      Is it called OS build under windows specification? If so it's 19041.866 and the version is 2004
      • Yes, it's exactly that, thank you
        can you please use Windows update to check for update and install the latest version which should be 20H2?

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