sv.jgalloway
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My son and I made our first bit of progress last night by getting our little bot up and going. But when we opened builder this morning, we noticed the "update available" tab flashing so we clicked on it. it took us to the download page which we did and everything went normally until we clicked on "finish" to exit the installer. The little hour glass icon appeared and didn't leave- for hours. finally, I restarted my computer, only to find that builder wouldn't open. Nothing unusual happens except it won't open, actually nothing at all happens.
@DJ You guys have been very good to me. If I can use some of my knowledge and customer service/ IT skills for your other customers, it is the least I can do.
Alan
deleting your browser history might help to.sinds he try it several times.
System restore said that it failed, but must have cleaned up enough, because we were back on the previous version of ARC, and I was able to help him update to the current version successfully. I hate not knowing for sure what was wrong, but am glad that whatever it was got fixed.
Alan
Strange! Sometimes windows just doesn't play well. Great to hear here is up and running with little effort!
Thanks a ton Alan! I really appreciate your help. And everybody, really. Everyone's comments and suggestions were fantastic. I haven't been a part of EZ- Robot long, but I am very impressed. Thanks guys!
DJ,
Jake just uploaded a diagnostic report. After thinking we had success last night, after a reboot the problem came back where ARC would not start. Task Manager showed three instances of ARC.exe running, but each only taking up 112k of memory. If we tried to start again, it could add three more tasks. The tasks could not be killed by task manager, killtask (run in a command prompt as administratot) or with sysinternals process explorer.
We rebooted, uninstalled, rebooted, re-installed and kept having the same issue. When we reverted back to the January 22nd version, it runs fine. However, it did have a problem connecting to the EZ-B until we added exclusions to Avast anti-virus. I am suspecting that may have been the issue with the newer version of ARC not running at all, but after spending a couple of hours, we decided to leave the old version for a week or so before tackling it again.
Do more recent releases attempt any network communication other than checking for update on bootup that the january 22nd version didn't do that might explain why Avast could be blocking it? If not, can you take a look at the diagnostic report and see if anything else jumps out at you that might prevent a newer version from working?
Alan
Hey, just wanted to post a "thank you" to Alan. What a pain this was, but he just hung in there, being patient, with me and the computer. Just a great guy. Thanks a ton Alan!