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From: n...@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: OT: Skype issue
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 10:59:02 GMT
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Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@On-My-Web-Site.com>
wrote:

>On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:43:37 -0800, Joerg <inva...@invalid.invalid>
>wrote:
>
>>Jim Thompson wrote:
>>> On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:54:56 -0800, Joerg <inva...@invalid.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Jim Thompson wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:52:42 -0800, Joerg <inva...@invalid.invalid>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Folks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A client asked me to sign up with Skype, so I did. Long story short, it
>>>>>> sorta works but every time I receive an error box "Skype has encountered
>>>>>> a problem and needs to close".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If I do not click "Do not send error report" and leave this error box on
>>>>>> the desktop I can perform camera and audio tests and browse around in
>>>>>> the Skype software menues. The millisecond I click "Do not send" ...
>>>>>> poof ... Skype is gone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's Skype SW version 6.0 and the PC uses XP. Web searched turned up
>>>>>> only the usual "fix" to wipe and reinstall everything. Done that, no
>>>>>> improvement. What gives? Older versions more stable?
>>>>> Huh?  The latest version is 5.10.0.116 (as far as I know, I get
>>>>> automatic updates).
>>>>>
>>>> Nope, 6.0.0.120. And maybe that could be the problem?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Based on your prior complaints I'd guess it to be just a Joergasm...
>>>>> nothing is going to work properly for you >:-}
>>>>>
>>>> So why did NetMeeting, NetConnect, Go-To-Meeting and all that work
>>>> flawlessly right off the bat? I guess they must have done something
>>>> right. Problem is, when you have many clients they use lots of different
>>>> web meeting services.
>>> 
>>> You're always complaining, "So-and-so program crashes all the time".
>>> Which is it?
>>> 
>>
>>From the web conferencing apps only one: Cisco Webex. They spent quite
>>some time diagnosing it with me (after a client complained to them).
>>Turned out that one has to disable popup blocker plus uncheck the
>>scurity setting that prevents web sites from installing (!) add-ons.
>>Couldn't believe it. So now the drill is that whenever I need to enter a
>>Webex conference I uncheck this and then at the end re-check it.
>>
>>Even when Software is behaving in such, ahem, "suboptimal" fashion why
>>on earth can't it let off a meaningful error message instead of
>>freezing? Or to say it a bit arrogantly, in my work I do better than that.
>>
>>The other two are Acrobat Reader which was voted off this here
>>computation machine and replaced by more robust SW -> Fixed. The third
>>one is Orcad PSpice. When the rental license ran out I celebrated by
>>popping the cork of a bottle of "Fin du Monde" :-)
>>
>>>>
>>>>> There _was_ a bad release, which was corrected the next day.  Maybe
>>>>> you should seek out ~v5 and start from there.  Do you know to turn off
>>>>> virus checkers and all active programs prior to an install, so that
>>>>> all DLL's are up to date?
>>>>>
>>>> If that's needed that would be a poor performance. For the last install
>>>> I did. Did not make any difference. I found tons of web links where
>>>> people complained about the very same issue. No solutions other than to
>>>> try older versions "until one sticks". So I guess I have to search
>>>> around for older versions then. Found some but I won't download stuff
>>>>from unknown sites.
>>> 
>>> How do you conclude that?  You don't like updating DLL's?
>>> 		
>>
>>I do not allow downloads from site that I do not know and thus will not
>>trust. Simple as that. When a "recommended" download is from something
>>like www.uncleleroyshackworks.com I won't do it.
>>
>>After some more searching in post from myriad people with the exact same
>>issue one guy said the same thing that seemse to "work" here: Do not
>>click anything in the error box, move it off screen, then when done with
>>Skype pull it back and close Skype by hitting a key in that box, upon
>>which it kind of crashes away. That solution reminded me of the old Opel
>>Kadett. Often the starter solenoid wouldn't pull in. So the drill was to
>>carry a 1/2lbs hammer at all times because that "fixed" it for one start
>>process at a time.
>
>You're beyond hope.  Your paranoia is keeping you from working
>software.  But that's good, you're not intruding on my bandwidth >:-}

The amount of problems Joerg describe often point to hardware
problems.

-- 
Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply
indicates you are not using the right tools...
nico@nctdevpuntnl (punt=.)
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