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Unable to run the docker and get the error of wsl

I installed the Docker some time ago and with it I installed all the requirements of wsl now I get the error that when I open the Docker app I get the error that Docker desktopwsl update failed which is shown below in the signature and in my Docker app nothing is visible no containers or anything else is visible

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i tried alot of things but got nothing

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    Hi Ayaan Mehdi and welcome to StackOverflow!

    The error message most likely tells you directly what to do: update your wsl.

    Microsoft updated the WSL to version 2 some time ago. You should be able to update following these steps:

    Go into a Powershell or Cmd Terminal and execute

    wsl -l -v

    It will display all the running wsl instances in a table format. For me it looks something like this:

    wsl command output

    To update the underlying wsl version you can execute

    wsl --set-version <NAME> 2

    For example, if my Ubuntu-22.04 would be version 1 I would execute

    wsl --set-version Ubuntu-22.04 2

    There should be an output similar to Conversion complete

    If none if this works, you need to set the default version for new installations to use the newer wsl version. Execute

    wsl --set-default-version 2

    and then reinstall Docker Desktop, explicitely enabling the WSL2 Docker Backend as described by the Docker Documentation

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    If you’re on Windows

    Solution 1: Update WSL

    Open command line and run wsl --update

    Solution 2: Disable and reinstall WSL

    Uninstall through "Windows Features". See steps here https://stackoverflow.com/a/79015013/1027250

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