You want to try out Impulse?

Here it is

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 by Frogboy | Discussion: Sneak Previews

http://storage.stardock.com/files/Impulse_setup.exe

Give it a try, tell us what problems you run into here.

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StephanA
Reply #261 Saturday, March 29, 2008 5:43 AM
After continuous crashing I had to unistall Impulse. Will clean up registry and install again. See how it goes again.

Fuzzy Logic
Reply #262 Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:22 AM
All I get at the moment is 'Could not connect to servers, working in offline mode'. SDC connected and updated fine...

skotos90
Reply #263 Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:30 AM
Just downloaded Impulse and everything installed and ran without any problems.   

So far I like what I see. Seems easy to understand. Going to go play with it more.

Cosmic Fox
Reply #264 Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:25 AM
Besides cross updating applications seemingly one not knowing the other has updated the application already (other = SDC). I use Kaspersky Internet Security Suite and it yells like crazy when I run impulse.

PASSWORD-PROTECTED.EXE seems to be what it yells about and keeps telling me a new variant of the virus has been detected. This continues for about 5 minutes then settles down till I use it again. I tried everything on my end adding it to the trusted zone etc. I skimmed throught the pages here didn't find anyone else complaining about their AV blowing up.

It crashes and locks up after updating at times as well. I will look at the logs and paste it into this thread.

Overall I love the program and feel it will really be a beneficial tool especially for the novice/new user to stardock. Easier to see all your programs including the serial numbers. It has excellent eye candy made me be impulsive and bought a number of new items from Stardock. Good job guys!

PurrBall
Reply #265 Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:33 AM

Still getting this, can't download anything (

PurrBall
Reply #266 Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:42 AM
Completely removed, re-downloading, re-installed...

CptCrckpot
Reply #267 Saturday, March 29, 2008 11:45 AM
I have 2 and a Laptop. One PC has XP, the other PC and the Laptop both have Vista. The 2 PCs have their own internet connections, while the laptop can connect with either one. Vista has a low bandwidth/low latency DSL connection, while XP has a high bandwidth/hign latency satellite connection. The Vista PC connect and logs in fine with Impulse. The XP machine does not, it tells me it could not log in, server not responding. I'd put it down to being an issue with the type of connection, if not for one thing: The laptop. The laptop can log in (though it takes awhile) from either connection. What's really strange about that is the fact that if it goes through the satellite connection, it's actually using the connection on the XP machine, since I have to use ICS on the XP machine for other PCs to be able to access the satellite (the satellite requires special software be running on the host machine, so it can't be plugged into directly the way my DSL modem can). Any suggestions?

Koasati
Reply #268 Saturday, March 29, 2008 12:15 PM
Besides cross updating applications seemingly one not knowing the other has updated the application already (other = SDC). I use Kaspersky Internet Security Suite and it yells like crazy when I run impulse.

PASSWORD-PROTECTED.EXE seems to be what it yells about and keeps telling me a new variant of the virus has been detected. This continues for about 5 minutes then settles down till I use it again. I tried everything on my end adding it to the trusted zone etc. I skimmed throught the pages here didn't find anyone else complaining about their AV blowing up.


See comments #134, #136, and #137

Koasati
Reply #269 Saturday, March 29, 2008 12:18 PM
I noticed we now have the ability to Archive. Right click an app, and select "Archive Application". But the archives are 0 bytes.


We also have a History link!


PurrBall
Reply #270 Saturday, March 29, 2008 12:54 PM
Fixed my issue, I had disabled COM+ and SENS services.

View History always 404.

DeskScapes and IP don't have an update button, but are on the list. I updated DeskScapes last time I started Impulse but it now insists I have the old version.

KenzieZero
Reply #271 Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:30 PM
DeskScapes and IP don't have an update button, but are on the list.


I'm getting the same thing... Telling me there's an update, but not giving me the button to click... It's torture!!!    


eieio
Reply #272 Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:46 PM
I noticed we now have the ability to Archive. Right click an app, and select "Archive Application". But the archives are 0 bytes.


Well, it's a start anyway   


I notice that 'More Info' basically takes you to a page to buy the software. Not really informative ... but maybe that is the intent.   

PurrBall
Reply #273 Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:10 PM
Latest update fixes update issues.

What's checkBox1 in the Prefs do?

killajosh
Reply #274 Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:31 PM
What's checkBox1 in the Prefs do?


PurrBall, I think that's the 'Show prerelease (Alpha/Beta) versions'

Koasati
Reply #275 Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:57 PM
What's checkBox1 in the Prefs do?


PurrBall, I think that's the 'Show prerelease (Alpha/Beta) versions'


Nope, that's the first checkbox. The fourth checkbox is labeled checkbox1
Koasati is hesitant to check it........

damoose
Reply #276 Sunday, March 30, 2008 4:58 AM
OK... Got another update this morning. The following info was in the error log...

-- [30/03/2008 4:36:26 AM] ----------------------------------------------------
Context: CreateRequest XMLRead
Message: dxp_sap 3.49i[rc].021 beta InstallFile
Exception: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.


-- [30/03/2008 4:36:26 AM] ----------------------------------------------------
Context: CreateRequest XMLRead
Message: dxp_sap 3.49i[rc].021 beta UnInstallFile
Exception: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.


-- [30/03/2008 4:36:27 AM] ----------------------------------------------------
Context: CreateRequest XMLRead
Message: dxp_sap 3.49i[rc].021 beta InstallFile
Exception: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.


-- [30/03/2008 4:36:27 AM] ----------------------------------------------------
Context: CreateRequest XMLRead
Message: dxp_sap 3.49i[rc].021 beta UnInstallFile
Exception: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.


-- [30/03/2008 4:36:59 AM] ----------------------------------------------------
Context: DownloadJob Success - impulse_images/impulse PublicProduction 0.80.069
Message:


-- [30/03/2008 4:37:04 AM] ----------------------------------------------------
Context: DownloadJob Success - impulse_logic/impulse PublicProduction 0.80.080
Message:


-- [30/03/2008 4:40:10 AM] ----------------------------------------------------
Context: DownloadJob Success - impulse_main/impulse PublicProduction 0.80.123
Message:


-- [30/03/2008 4:41:49 AM] ----------------------------------------------------
Context: CreateRequest XMLRead
Message: dxp_sap 3.49i[rc].021 beta InstallFile
Exception: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.



-- [30/03/2008 4:41:50 AM] ----------------------------------------------------
Context: CreateRequest XMLRead
Message: dxp_sap 3.49i[rc].021 beta UnInstallFile
Exception: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.



-- [30/03/2008 4:41:50 AM] ----------------------------------------------------
Context: CreateRequest XMLRead
Message: dxp_sap 3.49i[rc].021 beta InstallFile
Exception: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.



-- [30/03/2008 4:41:51 AM] ----------------------------------------------------
Context: CreateRequest XMLRead
Message: dxp_sap 3.49i[rc].021 beta UnInstallFile
Exception: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.

Interestingly enough, there's 3 impulse specific down loads each with different version information...

The exclamation point graphic is fixed for DeskScapes and IconPackager in this build.

+1 to the zero byte Archive
+1 to history 404. But only for some components, some actually supply history, some say information not available, some say 404 not found.

Wizard1956
Reply #277 Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:22 PM
Installed this morning,Looks Great-Works Great! Absolutely no problems with anything. And the forums don't try to burn down my desktop. Bravo, Team Stardock,and Thanks. Five stars from me.

CptCrckpot
Reply #278 Monday, March 31, 2008 4:42 PM
I finally got Impulse to work on my XP/Satellite internet PC. I had to go in to Internet Options and remove the proxy server information (the satellite software uses a proxy to optimize the connection). Without the proxy, Impulse was able to connect and download, albeit very slowly.

Z71
Reply #279 Monday, March 31, 2008 7:22 PM
I finally got Impulse to work on my XP/Satellite internet PC. I had to go in to Internet Options and remove the proxy server information (the satellite software uses a proxy to optimize the connection). Without the proxy, Impulse was able to connect and download, albeit very slowly.


I've been trying, since this came out, with no success. Couldn't get past the log-in screen.
Tried the no proxy way and I'll be dogged, it works.
Thanks for the info, CptCrckpot.  

PurrBall
Reply #280 Monday, March 31, 2008 7:43 PM
Will this eventually be pushed out over SDC?

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