How to install update?

In the Windows 10 Notification Center, there is a message notifying me of a new update:

But unfortunately, there is NO BUTTON to actually INSTALL the update!

Clicking on the message does nothing.

Also, in the Directory Opus menu, there is no update menu item.

So how can I install the update?

Even in the Directory Opus About dialog there is no update notice:

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Click on the notification itself.

Or use Help > Check for Updates.

As I wrote, clicking on the notification DOES NOTHING.

And as I wrote, there is no Check for Updates menu item in the Help menu:

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Clicking the notification worked for me the last time it was there. I'll check next time it happens for me.

If you've deleted everything in your Help menu except for one item, then that's not our fault. The default toolbars are built into the program if you need them. Or add a menu item to your custom toolbars which runs Help CHECKUPDATE.

(How did you install every update before this one?)

Accusing me of having deleted the Help menu items is an (unproven) offense. Why should I do that?

The default toolbars and Help menu look like this:

The default Help menu has never looked like the one in your screenshot, even going back as far as Opus 6 (the first Windows version):

If it wasn't you who changed things then I don't know what happened. Maybe your computer is haunted.

Also: Looking at your About window screenshot, you are already on 12.22. The notification you were looking at was probably old. Windows doesn't always clear them out. Clicking the notification probably did nothing because there's no longer any update to install.

I created the new menu item: Help CHECKUPDATE

It says Your version is current.

I have closed the notification.

Shouldn't the Opus installer clear the notification?

I did a Google search for "haunted computers" and got some questionable results.

Well it is nearly halloween after all :ghost:

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It's not Opus that's keeping it; it's Windows. There's no way, at least that I can find documented anywhere, to tell Windows to remove an old notification.

(The only thing I can find is a flag to say the notification should not go into the Notification Center at all, but then you'd miss it if you weren't looking at the screen the moment it appeared.)