Since it didn't make a difference, I put it back the way it was. I have seen the Updater2 referenced on the forum, so I suppose it somehow makes sense. I does look a lot like leftover thrash from FSX/P3D, but I was sure I wiped it all away.
All wrong.
It's not a duplicate, it's not an error and the reason why the "old" one is not updated very often, it's because it's doing a very simple job of JUST checking if there's an updater Couatl_Updater2.exe and if there is one, it will download it and start it.
This way, you'll always get the latest updater without an annoying double launch, a first startup to check if there's an updated updater, then a quit (because the updater couldn't possibly overwrite itself while it was running), then a restart, which is what would happen if the updater was made like a single app.
And the shortcut points to the correct one (Couatl_Updater.exe, of course), so you won't have to wonder which one is the correct one, that is without assuming there must be something wrong.
There are reference to starting the Couatl_updater2 in the forum, but ONLY to start it in diagnostic mode, not because you are supposed to do that normally.
