Hi, I’m reporting an installation issue with Anki 25.09 on both Windows 11 and Windows 10. After running the installer, Anki disappears completely and only the Anki Launcher remains. When I try to open Anki, the launcher opens instead, but it cannot install or uninstall anything. The “Uninstall” op…

Press Enter to have the Launcher install the latest version of Anki.

With all that analysis, surely they tried to press Enter…

I’m wondering if they tried to click on the row using the mouse and didn’t try to use the keyboard. Still: I’m surprised someone would go through so many things but won’t do a simple search on the internet or documentation to get the answer to “just press Enter”. This has been asked hundrets of ti…

Hi everyone I managed to install Anki 25.09 on my Windows 10 laptop (pressing Enter on the Launcher starts the installation normally). On my Windows 11 PC, however, pressing Enter results in the following error: "Unable to check for Anki versions. Please check your internet connection. Error: Fa…

This seems related: [image] 404 when downloading from GitHub (now resolved) Help When I tried to download Anki Desktop from the Homepage, it links me to the GitHub Asset download page which returned a 404. The download link did not work for all Windows, Mac, a…

Hi, thanks for the reply but at this point I prefer to upload the old release 24.06.3 Greetings Patri

The most recent release prior to switching to the Launcher was 25.02.7 , so that will get you the most updates.

Anki 25.09 not installing on Windows 11/10 – only Launcher appears

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patri April 4, 2026, 7:48am 11

Hi,
I’m currently running with version 24.06.3 on my pc windows 11
Thanks anyway

My greetings
Patri

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