PSA: WebView2 initialization failure with some WebView2 Runtime 131 updates

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Some Windows users received a faulty Windows update with WebView2 Runtime 131 that broke the official way to check if the evergreen runtime is installed in the computer.

Microsoft stopped the deployment of that update and then released a fix but some computers may still have the broken runtime.

 

In the case of WebView4Delphi this update caused the GlobalWebView2Loader.StartWebView2 call to return false because it couldn't find the WebView2 runtime on the system.

As a temporary workaround, set GlobalWebView2Loader.CheckFiles to FALSE before the GlobalWebView2Loader.StartWebView2 call.

 

Read this issue in the feedback repository for more details.