
Windows 10 - cannot enable NextDNS. "An Error Append while trying to communicate with NextDNS Windows Service"

Suddenly I cannot enable NextDNS in Windows 10. When I do, I get the error "An Error Append while trying to communicate with NextDNS Windows Service".
I tried reinstalling the app twice.
I saw that Microsoft Defender was blocking it. However, even after adding a folder exclusion for c:\Program Files (x86)\NextDNS, I still receive the same error and cannot enable.
Windows 10 Pro (19041.985)
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Please Submit the C:\Program Files (x86)\NextDNS\NextDNSService.exe file to Microsoft as a false positive (assuming default installation settings), you will prob need to exit out of the NextDNS Windows App before trying to upload the file at the following URL:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission
I just submitted it as well.
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I too was having the same issue... I tried some of the suggestions in this thread...nothing seems to have worked. I had to switch over to YogaDNS... which has been working just fine.
Actually, the good thing with YogaDNS, is that, I can setup a rule, that says for my local domain, use my router's DNS (cause it will resolve the local domain, to local IPs).... but let all the other requests go through the NextDNS servers.Nice.
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I noticed that the installation program is not able to register the service. This is happening only in one laptop of three and I cannot figure out why.
nextdns cold you please help here?
Extract: dnsunleak.exe... 100%
Output folder : C : Program Files (x86)WextDNS
Installing NextDNS Service
could not access service : The specified service does not exist as an installed service.
Extract: NextDNSService.exe... 100%
SetupEventLogSourceO failed:
could not access service : The specified service does not exist as an installed service.
Output folder: C:program Files (x86)WextDNS
Installing NextDNS UI..
Stopping NextDNS -
It failed for me on the ARM version of Windows 10. The included TAP installer is not compatible with the ARM OS. I got it running using the manual CLI option described at Windows · nextdns/nextdns Wiki · GitHub, but disappointed the Windows installer doesn't work across all versions of Windows.