Anyway, despite the apparent success of the installation, it still did not work. I think I had to restart the (virtual) PC. There was no message about needing to update firewalls or anything like that. This time the WebView2 installation seemed to work (even though it's the same firewall with no changes from the Windows 7 version). Again, a missing registry entry showed that WebView2 was not already installed. I then tried the installation/upgrade program on a Windows 8 virtual machine. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.' A message says 'The program can't start because WebView2Loader.dll is missing from your computer.

My users are not technical and will not know how to do that.Īfter the installation, my program would no longer load at all.

The bootstrapper put out a message saying that the user should update their firewall to whitelist 'MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe' (something like that). When I tried to run it on a Windows 7 virtual machine, the bootstrapper was run (because a missing registry entry showed that WebView2 was not installed). I included the tiny Microsoft bootstrapper for the Evergreen installation in my app's installation/upgrade program.

I tried to follow the instructions for distributing WebView2 with my app, but am having serious problems. But my app is designed to run under Windows 7 and Windows 8, as well as Windows 10. WebView2 works well in developing and testing under Windows 10 (so far). Hi - I have produced a new update of my app which uses WebView2 instead of the old IE Web browser control.

Microsoft edge for windows 7 32 bit