WinMX still flashing yellow after steps 1-3!

[Flip]

Hi,

All of a sudden in the last 3-4 days, WinMX has not been able to connect and keeps flashing yellow. I came on to the site and dutifully followed steps 1-3, so WinMX is allowed in my firewall, Outgoing TCP is set to not use a Proxy server and I reinstalled the patch. However, no joy.

I am on Windows Vista, have been for over a year and WinMX has been working fine until a few days ago. After installing the patch it now says - on the top of my WinMX window-:   WinMX Community Patch 1.0 - Thanks Eagle <FSR=0 BC=0>

Any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Flip]

P.S I'm on WinMX v 3.54 beta 4

[GhostShip]

Can you confirm you ran the full patch installer or did you use the patch only d/l ?

Some folks have been having trouble with old settings being left about from old installs so if you havent already, create a new folder and reload the full winmx and patch install into it and let us know how that goes , the important thing is not to use the old folder for this experiment .

[Flip]

Hi,

I  chose the first option on this link:-    https://patch.winmxconex.com/

I already had the oledlg patch in my folder and now I have two, one in lowercase and one in capitals. Should I delete the older one and see what happens? Or delete them both and reinstall it? Or as you say uninstall WinMX totally and reinstall it again?

Should I try all of these in order or just jump to option 3?

Thanks!

[Me Here]

Remove them both and use the installer to reinstall patch only it wont touch your winmx and I can see no need to uninstall winmx,  Delete both patch files and then re run the installer.  Post back and let us know.

[Flip]

Still not connecting. 

Try uninstall-reinstall?

[Me Here]

What firewalls do you use Flip?

[Flip]

Norton 360. But it was working fine until recently and nothing on the computer has changed. Or at least nothing that I am aware of...

[Flip]

I have also uninstalled and then reinstalled WinMX (Same version, 3.54b4) but even then it's not connecting.

[Me Here]

ok this does seem odd, infact so odd maybe its not you at all but your ISP is blocking access to WinMX, they wouldnt be the first and if that is the case id be for explaining how they have broken the contract with me and take my wallet else where if its possible for you to get other service.

But we wont jump to that conclusion yet...

Right first thing is to remove WinMX from the Norton completely from allowed programs.  Then shut of WinMX.  Now just for shits and giggles as they say.. lets make sure something has not turned the Vista Firewall back on (as it should be off since nortons is running).  Be sure the Vista Firewall is set to Disabled.
Then make sure (if your verison of Vista has Windows Defender) that WinMX is listed as allowed in that.

Then restart WinMX and see if the flashing continues, of course Nortons is going to ask 'shall we allow this program net access' and you need to say yes.


*EDIT**  in thinking about this also something else I remember helping a person with this issue about a year ago they also had Norton, and there was a spam, email, or spyware type of protection with Nortons, it may have even been a type of system file protection, ( sorry I cant recall the name) that when uninstalled or turned off fixed this issue, possibly a nortons update has included this feature for you?  Try investigating some of the features of your Nortons and experiment with disabling some of those types of services?

[Flip]

Hi, firstly, thanks for the help, really appreciate you taking the time and trouble to help me out.

Windows Defender and Firewall are disabled due to Norton 360, I  checked that. Removed WinMX from Norton and restarted. Although Norton did not ask me whether to allow the programme to run, I checked the Norton settings and it was 'Custom' as it used to be.

I also tried something else - about half a year ago, I had difficulty accessing a few sites that I used to visit regularly - the guardian F1 weblog. Then hotmail wouldn't open I did call our service provider and they said something about heavy traffic and asked me to put in a proxy server in the Internet Explorer Options of Connection, LAN settings. Ever since then I have had no problem with those sites. I did uncheck that box as well to see if it made a difference to WinMX but although I can't access the weblog again with it unchecked, it didn't seem to affect WinMX.

Should I try and phone them? What exactly would I say - I cannot access my p2p (I think!) music site? Somehow I'm not sure that would be the best thing to say

[TheMacDaddy]

Just a quick question here Flip and forgive me if i have already missed it...
But are you on a router ?  and if yes which one ?

[Me Here]

Routers wont cause flashing yellow and although we may need that info to get things working later.. for now I think we should find what caused this.

WinMX has a thriving chat community, and they are blocking your access to it.  WinMX can be used and is used for freeware files, sharing your grannies christmas videos and your own photos.  P2p is not illegal.

So yes you can call them and ask them what the hell they did to your WinMX.   

Seriously just ask if they are blocking access based on 'programs your using'. 

This is illegal btw so dont be surprised if they try to attmept a run around on you, or the other way they usually act is to read you the riot act about what a selfish bastid you are for wanting to use your bandwith you pay for such intense bandwidth use programs like a p2p, (lets face it, its not about the content, its about the fact that they sell high speed broad band then complain when you want to use it for more then web surfing or email) because you shouldn't be thinking of yourself but of the ISP who has over sold thier ability to deliever speeds, and now what you to suffer for it.
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Call em they cant kill ya or eat ya... lol  let us know what they say, maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised at the results.

[nylly444]

I did call our service provider and they said something about heavy traffic and asked me to put in a proxy server in the Internet Explorer Options of Connection, LAN settings. Ever since then I have had no problem with those sites.

If putting in a proxy server in IE helped it might just be worth trying it in winmx as well...

It's usually a bad idea as it will slow down things in most cases and most connections can't even us a proxy so it will fail completely.
Since your isp gave you the proxy information for IE though it's worth a try.

Try copying down the proxy information in IE and put it in the appropriate fields in WinMx in >settings>Outgoing TCP connections

Also you could call the ISP and ask if these proxy settings can be used for other internet services in general as well, without the explicit mentioning of p2p or winmx though maybe...
Yours might be one of the very few cases where it might actually be necessary to use a proxy although we can't say it often enough that generally it's a bad idea.

[Flip]

Hi,

Not really sure what a 'router' is or how to find it. However, the good news - WinMX has decided to start working again. All on it's own.

Thanks a million for your time and your help. Really.

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