I recall clicking on the sprocket/wheel and select the option to never show that again. I have not seen it show up after upgrades since the first release it was added.

thats one way of doing it

What way are you expecting?

Does the popup show up in the user-installed Code instance?

@joaomoreno that's exactly what happens

Can you show me the full contents of app\resources\app\product.json located in your user installed Code?

Did the setup package ask for Administrator privileges when you started it?

it was done under an unprivileged user

here is the content:
product.txt

What is the name of the setup .exe you downloaded? And perhaps an MD5 hashsum of the file, if you can provide that?

VSCodeUserSetup-x64-1.26.0-insider.exe

Interesting... those hashes do not match the hash of the user setup for our version 4fa62b2, which you indicated in the first post. Can you reconfirm your VS Code version?

man, no wonder versions don't match, i did reinstall so many times already and every time i get the same popup, hence this issue:

Version: 1.26.0-insider
Commit: 5fae91d
Date: 2018-07-25T02:04:01.629Z
Electron: 2.0.5
Chrome: 61.0.3163.100
Node.js: 8.9.3
V8: 6.1.534.41
Architecture: x64

Interesting... version 5fae91d also has different hashes for the setup file. Any chance you can upload that file somewhere I can download it from? (I am aware it is a large file).

here are 3 different install packages that i used before i opened this issue:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=15MyfXy8CLKHaR_Aw2es48K_TDYSCRUeJ

And when you tried the next, did you fully uninstall the previous? Which was the last you used?

here is the last one that i used on my very clean just reinstalled desktop:

• files: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GmvkqmlXXEpPcru0_ULJtalEYyqdK9oQ

• version

Version: 1.26.0-insider
Commit: 4fa62b2
Date: 2018-08-03T12:32:37.823Z
Electron: 2.0.5
Chrome: 61.0.3163.100
Node.js: 8.9.3
V8: 6.1.534.41
Architecture: x64

showing the same problem every time i open it:

I still can't reproduce...

On that clean desktop, did you ever installed the system-wide setup? How did you eventually ended up getting a user-installable setup?

1. i reinstalled the desktop anew

2. i downloaded and installed VSCodeSetup-x64-1.26.0-insider.exe: https://drive.google.com/open?id=17Eqe8Tgpv1S5mCvy8eGr0vZS41gnprbX

3. upon opening code-insiders ./ i saw this:
   

4. i followed the link and got VSCodeUserSetup-x64-1.26.0-insider.exe: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QqjJWMhgtsw8lz3-M3NVi2yQbXtuWTJN

5. i closed my code insiders and i installed the packaged downloaded at step 4

6. i opened my code insiders again and i saw the same invitation to download and install VSCodeUserSetup-x64-1.26.0-insider.exe again

7. i cam here and i opened the issue

i closed my code insiders and i installed the packaged downloaded at step 4

This is interesting. When you attempted to install at this step, didn't the uninstaller tell you to first uninstall the first package? Or did you simply answer Yes when it said Code - Insiders is already installed on this system for all users. Are you sure you want to install it for this user?

If you did, make sure you're launching the user Code, not the system one.

For some reason, Google Drive doesn't let me download those files... it just keeps loading until it times out.

Yeah, I see... you now have both versions installed and the system-wide one wins the race in the %PATH% variable.

I'll disable the popup if I detect that both are installed. I'll also improve the popup's message to be more explicit of what's going to happen.

I suggest for you to uninstall the system-wide setup, and you'll be alright.

Verification steps:

1. When installing the user setup after having the system setup installed, there should be a descriptive message informing the user of potential problems if both versions are installed.
2. When having both versions installed, the system version should warn that there's a user installed version as well.

Just updated to the 1.26 version and started getting the same message.

Getting this either randomly whenever VS code decides to update OR whenever I decide to manually check for updates.

It does get horribly confusing.

Version: 1.26.0
Commit: 4e93618
Date: 2018-08-13T16:29:31.933Z
Electron: 2.0.5
Chrome: 61.0.3163.100
Node.js: 8.9.3
V8: 6.1.534.41
Architecture: x64

@zouhair @szukai You can click the gear icon ⚙ in the notification and choose Never Show Again.

So.. it's working as intended?

@szukai I did not understand whether you have installed the user setup. Did you?

@joaomoreno I apologize, I don't quite follow. I used the VSCodeUserSetup-x64-1.26.0.exe to install VSCode and it's the only copy on my machine, if that's what you're referring to.

Got it. You keep having this popup and it's definitely the only VS Code copy you have in your machine? Can you show me the contents of the resources\app\product.json file inside the installation folder?

@joaomoreno uploaded it here: https://ufile.io/wzu6n

Well I'm the only user of this machine, so the only way it could've "not been the only copy" is if I had a previous version and there wasn't a clean uninstall I guess? I haven't tried installing VSCode via any other methods besides the installer off the site (the laziest way).

Are you absolutely sure you used VSCodeUserSetup-x64-1.26.0.exe to install the version which gave you this file? Can you send me that VSCodeUserSetup-x64-1.26.0.exe setup?

https://ufile.io/u6pp1

If you open the Control Panel and go to Uninstall Programs, how many Microsoft VS Code rows do you see there?

When I install the Setup package you gave me, the product.json which gets installed is different than the one you sent me.

Did you install this over the previous one?

Only one. (sorted by name)

It's possible I got the current exe I passed to you from the popup we're discussing about and haven't installed over it yet as I assumed they were the same (1.26.0) version

That installation is not the User one, since it would have (User) in the name. Thanks for the screenshot.

Uninstall that one and install the one you sent me.