I have uninstalled the program completely, reinstalled it.

Discord updater stuck. You can follow this guide: Seems to be something to do with the update.exe that gets called when you run discord. Once the update is done, open discord and check if it gets stuck on the start screen or not.

Press windows key + x on your keyboard. Here are the steps to rename discord’s update file: Right click on the icon, and run as administrator.

Discord update failed loop (fix). Go to the “file explorer” menu and find the discord update document. Click on the local folder.

This is yet another option that you can check out to update your discord app. This will download and replace the previous corrupt update file. One of the best solutions is to disable the proxy server when it gets stuck checking for discord updates or installing its updates.

Open your download folder in file explorer and run the program as an administrator. It is easy to do this. The next step is that every player facing the discord stuck on checking for the updates has to.

The user needs to double check, click the right button and close the discord app. Press windows key + r. The quick and direct method to update discord is to perform an automatic discord update.