Tailscale keeps asking to restart the windows service

[guylevin]

Tailscale keeps asking to restart the windows service

I've restarted the service, and the computer as well serval times.
The service is runnning all the time.

I also uninstalled and installed again.

It keeps asking to restart and won't connect

(Win 11, tailscale 1.14.3)

[guylevin]

Duplicate of #2282

Fixed by clearing the C:\Users\$user\AppData\Local\Tailscale library

[DentonGentry]

Delete %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Tailscale*

The problem occurs because a different file in c:\Windows got deleted, removing that one will let it recover. It should ask you to log in again within about a minute, or you can logout/login or uninstall/reinstall if it does not.

We know how to fix it at this point, and will be changing how that first file gets stored.