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Power Automate Desktop - Error PAD.Console.Host.exe and PAD.Designer.exe

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Hello all,

 

I have encountered with last update popup error The program PAD.Console.Host.exe and The program PAD.Designer.exe stopped interacting with Windows and was closed - from Event log.


The popup is in the screenshot.

contact 1.png

Issues that comes with this popup is:

1. None of existing flows can't be edited

2. New ones can't be created

What have I tried is next:

1. Uninstall of the PAD, with deleting following folders

>C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PAD.Console.exe_StrongName_*

>C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PAD.Designer.Host.exe_StrongName_*

>C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerAutomate

>C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerAutomate.Desktop

Then installed PAD again, and it didn't work.

2. Roll-back to the version 2.40 - it didn't work

3. Roll-back to the version 2.39 - it didn't work completely, for older flows it worked for new it didn't

4. All prerequisites are installed - checked

Only thing I found there is similar or call it partial issue on
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Desktop/Power-Automate-Desktop-2-40-157-24023-can-t-Edit-Flow/td-p/2579685 by @paronchi 

Does anyone else have this problem? Has anyone came to a solution?

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  • VishnuReddy1997 Profile Picture
    2,656 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @Gajtan89 ,

     

    Can you able to see the environment you can see the environment, please change whether you selected the correct environment.

    If above does not work sign-out from PAD and sign in again.

    If this also doesn't work, we have seen many of our teammates have uninstalled and reinstalled PAD it worked.

     

    (Note:- if you got your solution you can mark as solution and gives kudos)

     

    Thanks & Regards

    Vishnu Reddy

     

     

  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
    Most Valuable Professional on at

    If updating to the latest version available currently (2.42) doesn't fix it, I recommend reporting this as a bug to Microsoft support.

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