W10 Pro, Event Viewer error 7000, VivaldiElevationService

Mawkin

5.7.2921.60 (Stable channel) (64-bit)

I am seeing this error daily in the Windows Event Viewer:-
"The Vivaldi Elevation Service (VivaldiElevationService) service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified. "

There is an entry in Services for this, and the path to the executable is:-
C:\Program Files\Vivaldi\Application\5.4.2753.28\elevation_service.exe"

This is obviously because the folder in Program Files is for the current Vivaldi version, and not the older one as per Services.

There is not elevation_service.exe in PF under the new Vivaldi version folder.

Do I:-

Expect there to be an exe in the new folder?
Delete the Service from Services, or turn it off in e.g. Autoruns?
Ignore it?

Pathduck

@Mawkin Hi - I don't have any service entries for "VivaldiElevationService" on my Win10 system.

I suspect this might've been some bug on Vivaldi's part back when you installed 5.4 (or older).

The only relevant info I found was this old release post for 2.2 in 2018:

[Windows] Removed “Vivaldi Elevation Service”—inherited from Chromium and unused by us
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-2-2-release-candidate-2/

I recommend you just delete this service using Autoruns.

EDIT: Digging a bit more, I found this forum post in German:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/82295/vivaldielevationservice

And also this post - by yours truly
https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/602600
I don't think I've seen it added since then.

Mawkin

@Pathduck Thanks for that. I did a quick search for this but couldn't see anything, so thanks for the links.

I'll delete it from Services, as you suggest.

Earthling

@Mawkin
hey there, status update? how is vivaldi working now?
i have had my pc crash a bunch lately and in the event viewer i am finding the vivaldi elevation service errors and unsure if they are related. seems like a good cheap place to start though.
thanks

Pathduck

@Earthling Hi - this service might've been added as a bug earlier. It can safely be removed.

Does the Elevation Service show in Window Services?

You'll need something like Autoruns to delete a service.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns

Or it can be deleted in Regedit:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

No idea if the crashes are related though... maybe

Earthling

It does not show up in windows services. I take it that means it shouldn't matter?
Thanks

DoctorG

@Earthling
Start command line as Administrator
Run command sc delete vivaldielevationservice
Restart Windows
Then the service should be gone