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Netgear Engage won't start
Hi. I'm having some trouble with my Netgear Engage installation on my local Windows 10 Pro laptop. Everything has been working fine up to recently.
Now when starting engage I get error : "Cannot open Engage: resource busy" and it hangs at 42%."
I have tried uninstalling, although I cannot find a purpose uninstaller in my Apps panel or start menu, so I deleted the Netgear folder under Program Files and re-installed a fresh download from the Netgear website. I get the same issue.
It does not appear to make a difference if any network interfaces are connected or not, the application will not start.
Hoping someone might have some insight please?
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Further to the above, managed to locate two log files for Engage that might be relevent. The last start is at the bottom, 0637hrs. Maybe it is sticking at:
2026-09-17 06:39:42.875 [pool-2-thread-1] INFO UpgradeCheck.check(516) - check model firmware: WBE708 fail . https://http.fw.updates1.netgear.com/engage-wbe708/release/packages.ini
or
06:39:12 info › check port 8090
06:39:12 info › check finish, go init
A quick netstat check on my system at the time reveals that port 8090 is available for use by the Engage.exe process, but it does not appear to be making any TCP or UDP bindings according to the netstat list...
and avcontroller.pdf (converted from the original .txt files to pass the upload check here.)
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