Couatl_Updater2.exe opens log file on login

[Roman Geber]

Hi

Every time I log into my sim PC Windows opens one of these "what program do you want to open this file" dialogs. It usually goes away after ~10 seconds or so. But it really shouldn't be there in the first place. When I open the file in an editor it turns out to be related to Couatl.

This is the file's content:

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2017-08-15 12:20:22.816   Log opened. (Time zone: UTC+02:00)
2017-08-15 12:20:22.816   Setup version: Inno Setup version 5.5.9 (a)
2017-08-15 12:20:22.816   Original Setup EXE: D:\SimTools\Addon Manager\Couatl_Updater.exe
2017-08-15 12:20:22.816   Setup command line: /SL5="$5E042A,253425,169472,D:\SimTools\Addon Manager\Couatl_Updater.exe" /product=LSGG /silent /log=C:\Users\Roman Geber\AppData\Roaming\Virtuali\UpdateCache\Couatl_Updater.LOG
2017-08-15 12:20:22.816   Windows version: 10.0.15063  (NT platform: Yes)
2017-08-15 12:20:22.816   64-bit Windows: Yes
2017-08-15 12:20:22.816   Processor architecture: x64
2017-08-15 12:20:22.816   User privileges: Administrative
2017-08-15 12:20:22.816   64-bit install mode: No
2017-08-15 12:20:22.832   Created temporary directory: C:\Users\ROMANG~1\AppData\Local\Temp\is-MJ761.tmp
2017-08-15 12:20:22.832   Extracting temporary file: C:\Users\ROMANG~1\AppData\Local\Temp\is-MJ761.tmp\idp.dll
2017-08-15 12:20:22.879   taskName Updating Live Update cache files
2017-08-15 12:20:23.676   taskName Updating Addon Manager files
2017-08-15 12:20:23.676   cacheFolder set to C:\Users\Roman Geber\AppData\Roaming\virtuali\UpdateCache\
2017-08-15 12:20:23.676   cacheFile set to C:\Users\Roman Geber\AppData\Roaming\virtuali\UpdateCache\fsdtroot.md5
2017-08-15 12:20:23.676   cacheFileName set to fsdtroot.md5
2017-08-15 12:20:23.676   File cache C:\Users\Roman Geber\AppData\Roaming\virtuali\UpdateCache\fsdtroot.md5 loaded
2017-08-15 12:20:23.676   Adding folder check
2017-08-15 12:20:23.676   local file bglmanx_aerosoft.dat matches remote file, skipping update.
2017-08-15 12:20:23.692   local file bglmanx_fsdt.dat matches remote file, skipping update.
2017-08-15 12:20:23.692   local file bglmanx_qwings.dat matches remote file, skipping update.
2017-08-15 12:20:23.692   local file FSdt_install_guide.pdf matches remote file, skipping update.
2017-08-15 12:20:23.692   local file Couatl_Updater2.exe matches remote file, skipping update.
2017-08-15 12:20:23.692   local file bglmanx_fbeam.dat matches remote file, skipping update.
2017-08-15 12:20:23.692   local file bglmanx.dll matches remote file, skipping update.
2017-08-15 12:20:23.692   local file bglmanx.dat matches remote file, skipping update.
2017-08-15 12:20:23.692   local file bglmanx64.dll matches remote file, skipping update.
2017-08-15 12:20:23.707   local file Couatl_Updater.exe matches remote file, skipping update.
2017-08-15 12:20:23.707   Executing D:\SimTools\Addon Manager\Couatl_Updater2.exe /product=LSGG /silent
2017-08-15 12:20:49.632   D:\SimTools\Addon Manager\Couatl_Updater2.exe has been executed successfully.
2017-08-15 12:20:49.632   Starting the installation process.
2017-08-15 12:20:49.632   Installation process succeeded.
2017-08-15 12:20:49.632   Need to restart Windows? No
2017-08-15 12:20:49.632   Deinitializing Setup.
2017-08-15 12:20:49.647   Log closed.
How to get rid of this? Thanks!

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Roman

[virtuali]

It seems you have a program on the Windows startup list, which is supposed to open .LOG files, maybe an editor you used to look the FSDT Updater log file, so it's probably trying to open the last file you opened, and it's doing this because it's configured as a startup program.

The updater log file, located here:

C:\Users\Roman Geber\AppData\Roaming\Virtuali\UpdateCache\Couatl_Updater.LOG

Is from August 8th, 2017, so it's surely not something related to anything you installed recently, you probably opened that file manually once, with that startup program you have in Windows.

Check all the start up programs: in Windows 10 it's fairly easy:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4026268/windows-change-startup-apps-in-windows-10