no high priority updates available

I'm not finding that anywhere

OK, look for KB951748

Security update for DNS - with a known issue of not connecting to the internet if you have ZA?

crap. installed on 8/31/2008. says the update cannot be removed.

Great.........not that I think it really matters, but where does it tell you that?

All and all, I believe we've fucked this machine as much as we can without it going belly up.

Here's the choices:

Un-install all NET versions and re-install

or

Pick a Restore point after the 23rd and prior to this mess.

If you pick door #2 you'll, of course, have to live without that animation you soooooo desired, but there's nothing that says the NET fix will get you any closer either.

Your call.

The "agony of defeat" sucks. 

hmmm...

door 1 - first find and download net versions (on dialup or get the wife to download on wireless when she's at school)

door 2 - pick one of 6 and no animation

it ain't just the animation... i've noticed from reading various posts, updates from SDC seem to be lagging somewhat behind Impulse... and the lag seems to be getting longer = update for wb on impulse has been there well over a week

and now my subscription has expired

I'm gonna have to sleep on this a while.

Thanks, Duck.

in the add/remove

Night there Bichur.  Sorry you guys couldn't figure it out.  But it was fun to watch.

Yep, first he breaks his throbber, now he's broken other BITS.... hmmm, bit of a Marquis de Sade, if you ask me.

Seriously, I had a similar problem with the WC browser some yonks ago... something to do with my DNS service not allowing it or something after routine MS updates.  I couldn't figure out all the technical jargon to supposedly fix it so just did a sytem restore to before the updates to resolve it.

Anyhow, I hope you get it fixed soon, Bichur, there's nothing more frustrating than things that don't work properly... or at all.

So... I'm sitting at work browsing the SD forums (damn electric fence won't let me into WC at all)

when I found this: Impulse Won't Log In 

Ya know, I gave that Earthlink Accelerator a glancing thought, but dismissed it as irrelevant.....hummmm

Is this 'Accelerator' embedded in a Earthlink IE mutant?

I used to have this setup before i went to DSL this past winter.  The Accelerator is a separate App that compresses graphics images on web pages.  It can be disabled.  Earthlink dialup is IE dependent.  About as much as I can tell yrag.

don't think it actually embedded per se. It's separate but it's part of the Total Access - has it's own floating tool bar if I want - the other parts are BHOs of which I turn off whenever I see them on.

TM doens't like accelerator much - i get an accelerator must close every so often - sometime frequently - seems it hasn't been updated since either 2004 or 2005

when it closes, internet still works, just really really slow

I've also been thinking... seems after either SP3 or FF3 (got them both around the same time) - the accelerator crashes more often and I seem to get a lot of script error pop ups - sometimes I'll get one popping up 10-15 minutes after all browsers are closed

IE7 takes about 10-15 times longer to load a page than FF - with or with the accelerator

I probably should reformat, but I have a partition that'll put me back to 2003 - downloading all the MS updates again on dialup.... aauugggh - reformatted in 2006 & even with an SP2 disc (272mb, 33+hrs to download on dialup - that was fun) I still had, at that time, at least 45 updates to download - seems like I needed to reboot after every 3rd one.

So I'm wondering, if I get off my ass, back my stuff up and reformat (no I don't have anything like acronis) - are the SPs totally cummalitive? Do I have to reinstall SP2 & 3 or just 3?

maybe I'll try an uninstall/reboot/ reinstall of EL 1st....

Just 3.

You're making me dizzy with the acronyms ..... you get a job with the government?????? 

EL ?

TM ?

Can you use Earthlink without the IE bells and whistles? You can uninstall it and reinstall an IE7 vanilla flavor......

Anybody who still relies on a wire stretched across a corn field needs a backup app..... http://backup.comodo.com/  (4MBs and it's FREE .......get the damn thing)

noted

not counting a half life in the Army... going on 23yrs with U.N.C.L.E.

and noted....

man... that looked so good on paper........

uninstalled - rebooted -

opened a direct connection - got on the internet

open Impulse - still no effect

- go into the preference & uncheck proxy....

Not only was I logged in, I saw 6.30.100!!!

then Impulse pops up some kind of message down in the bottom left informing me of it's need to check the entire internet for updated graphics - and then I lost all connection activity

waited a long while..... then killed it....

figured.... what the hey. it's a connection thingy... once i reinstall earthlink I'll sort it out....

yeeeaaah, right

reinstalled...... went through the prompts.... told me all's well, just about done.... damn thing froze up.... after 30min of the little progress bar repeating itself.... I killed it.....  ended up with 2 earthlink systray icons instead of 1 earthlink and one accelerator - the one posing as accelator did nothing - earthlink's taskbar didn't even have a hint of accelerator in the tools where it normally is

apparently my TotalAccess disk is from 2004 and it seems they've been updating stuff whilst I wasn't looking (and yeah, I probably didn't wait long enough before I killed it)

eh. no worries for de Troll.... bout time system restore earned it's keep....

Your System has been restored to a time before you screwed with it - we hope... but System Restore's official disclaimer is System Restore has worked with you before.

click TotalAccess....

please wait while installer installs earthlink mailbox....

Barnacles!!!

But I don't want the mailbox

cancel

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what the ?

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please wait while installer installs earthlink accelerator

now we're getting ready to cook with gas....

excuse me, but installer can't find accelerator.msi.... what did you do with it?

I didn't do anything with it, it was on the disk.  Don't blame me if you forgot it.  Here, I'll put the disk in for you.  Look right here... see it?  Here, let me highlight it for you.  Now do you see it?  Alrighty then, finish installing it please.

I'm sorry, that's not a valid win32 application

Squeeze Me?  It's yours.  If it's not valid what the hell is it doing on your disk?  Here, how about if I just copy it over and put it on my desktop.  Then you can get a closer look at it....

I'm sorry, that's not a valid win32 application

CRAP!!!!!

Hey Restore!  Wake up, you're not done yet...

I haven't been asleep Dave, I've worked with you before.  Didn't you read my disclaimer?...

Okay, we have once again breached the boundaries of time. Hit it.

click TotalAccess....

please wait while installer installs earthlink mailbox....

what the ?

cancelcancelcancelcancelcancelcancelcancelcancelcancelcancelcancelcancelcancel

please wait while installer installs earthlink accelerator

excuse me, but installer can't find accelerator.msi.... what did you do with it?

Hey TaskManager!!!!

Kill that.

Now Kill that.  and that.  this one.  that one.  kill that one over there... the one snickering.... yeah.. that one. Kill it Kill it Kill it.

Screw it, they're all laughing - Kill them all!!!!! 

Still using direct connection - didn't even bother to click totalaccess

haven't tried Impulse yet today, want to get some browsing in 1st in case it hangs up again.

i guess i need to contact ELink to have them send me a new disk.

One the one hand, I'm trying.

One the other hand, it's me trying.

One the good hand, my wife's only laughing because she got a laptop last month.

LOL - no smilies.....guess they're still giving CPR to the hamsters......

Wow...you do work for the Government....apparently the Postal Service........

You don't need the 'EL' software. Just set up your connection: http://kb.earthlink.net/case.asp?s=st%3D235%2Ce%3D0000000002010280604%2Ck%3D102%2Csxi%3D12&article=23597

If you're losing connection without it, then the problem is somewhere in the XP settings.

It's been so long see I've seen dialup, I'm afraid I'm going to be reasonably worthless as to settings ....... 

....surely, there must be at least one other troll on the planet with dialup..........do you have the Troll Hotline number???

haven't lost connection yet tonight, but I haven't opens Impulse either.  When I had Impulse installed before it kept hanging up updating itself

what I did was set IE to dial when there was no connection - so when I opened IE the normal connect box came up

but now, eveytime I open something, installer has another attempt at accelerator - least it takes no more than 2 cancels

got the link above bookmarked just in case.

graphics laden pages take a really long time without acceleration

forums don't take too long without it, unless the post has screenshots in it

I just opened the wb gallery page at 22:24 and right now (22:26) i've got 12 full thumbnails out of 24 loaded on the page and I have it set to show 48

Good luck there Bichur.  I'm still hoping you'll find the solution.  I remember dialup and you're right graphics on net pages are no fun especially without the accelerator.  Have you heard from support yet? 

crap.  forgot i put in a ticket.... I'll go check...

So... being the impatient troll i am and after reading all those whiney posts about support still hasn't got back to me....

1st thing Monday.

who knew?

I probably should have put a sticky on my monitor reminding me I had a ticket in and I really should wait.