Discord is an extremely useful program for voice communication with your friends while playing something, however, at the moment, many users are faced with the error “JavaScript error occurred in the main process” when launching it. In today’s article, we will look at how you can get rid of this error.
How to fix “JavaScript error occurred in the main process” on Discord
In this article, we’ll walk you through two methods that can fix the “JavaScript error occurred in the main process” error when starting Discord. It is worth noting right away that if there is no effect from the use of one of them, try the other as well. Some of them should work.
Method # 1 Upgrading the Discord Client
In some cases, the error “JavaScript error occurred in the main process” when launching Discord occurs due to the fact that the program client requires an update for itself, but the automatic update process was not started. You need to manually update Discord. To do this, you will need to follow the steps below:
- to get started, open the Task Manager and close all open processes of the Discord program;
- then press on the keyboard Windows + R;
- enter the command in the line % AppData% and press Enter;
- return from the “Roaming” folder to the “AppData” folder;
- open the “Local” folder and navigate from it to the “Discord” folder;
- double click on the executable file Update.exe;
- close open folders and start Discord as usual.
After all of the above, the Discord program after launch should begin its update. Wait for it to finish installing the updates it finds, and then check that it works fine. If the problem was precisely in the absence of an update, then the error “JavaScript error occurred in the main process” should disappear.
Method # 2 Complete reinstallation of Discord
Didn’t the first method help? Well, it doesn’t help many people either, but it was worth a try. However, what really helps a lot is the complete reinstallation of the Discord program. To perform a complete reinstallation, you will need to do the following:
- reopen the Task Manager and close all open processes of the Discord program;
- go to the “Control Panel” and go to the system element called “Programs and Features”;
- find the Discord software in the lists and uninstall it;
- then open the “AppData” folder as shown in the previous method;
- open the “Local” folder and completely delete the “Discord” folder;
- now go back to “AppData” and go to the “Roaming” folder;
- find the “discord” folder in it and delete it;
- re-install Discord.
Once you run the program, there will be no more “JavaScript error occurred in the main process” error in Discord. We hope that this material helped you to get rid of the problem, and you finally got in touch with your playmates.