{"id":4110,"date":"2026-06-08T18:01:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=4110"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:01:36","slug":"software-updater-detects-updates-that-have-already-been-applied-and-repeatedly-requests-for-restarts","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/support-articles\/software-updater-detects-updates-that-have-already-been-applied-and-repeatedly-requests-for-restarts\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Updater detects updates that have already been applied, and repeatedly requests for restarts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>The Software Updater feature in Elements Endpoint Protection and Business Suite Client Security detects several updates as missing even if they have already been installed. After each installation attempt the product shows a restart or reboot request.<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>This issue needs to be investigated by WithSecure Support. Please enable debug logging and reproduce the issue. Then collect a Wsdiag diagnostic file and attach it to a support case:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;float: none;display: inline;\">1. Open the WithSecure\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box;font-weight: bold;color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;\">Client user interface <\/strong>on a device<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;float: none;display: inline;\">2. Open\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box;font-weight: bold;color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;\">Settings<\/strong><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;float: none;display: inline;\">3. Go to the <\/span><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box;font-weight: bold;color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;\">Support <\/strong>page<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;float: none;display: inline;\">4. Enable\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box;font-weight: bold;color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;\">&quot;Debug logging helps customer support to analyze issues&#8230;.&quot;)<\/strong><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;float: none;display: inline;\">5. Reproduce the issue<\/span><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;float: none;display: inline;\">6. Generate new WSDIAG log file by running the WithSecure Support Tool found in the Windows Start Menu<\/span><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;float: none;display: inline;\">7. Disable Debug (recommended to avoid performance issues)<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #181818;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#39;Segoe UI&#39;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &#39;Apple Color Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Emoji&#39;, &#39;Segoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-size: 14px;white-space: normal;background-color: #ffffff;float: none;display: inline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Software Update in our environment started to detect several updates that were supposedly pending\/installed.<\/p>\n<p>The agent updates and asks to restart the device. But then it detects again and repeats this same process.<\/p>\n<p>However, the device would already have the latest version of Google Chrome for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[104],"class_list":["post-4110","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000005052","source_version":3,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-06-08 15:01:36","import_hash":"4f0037caef96ffc890b878149596ea8545617feb","vanilla_article_id":31158,"vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/31158-software-updater-detects-updates-that-have-already-been-applied-and-repeatedly-requests-for-restarts","vanilla_kb_id":30,"vanilla_category_id":106,"machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":1,"reactions_helpful_no":2},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/4110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}