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Originally Posted by Statue
Hiya, totally awesome UI, used it since way back and not sure how I coped before with the default (when DoF update came out and I used the default I found it to be approaching unplayable after getting so used to ThorUI)...
...anyway.. there's the praise bit, now the issue bit 
I recently got some new hard drives and did a clean install of windows xp and games and such, including eq2 and eq2map and ThorUI AU... Things don't seem to be working for me so nicely now; when I open ThorUI AU, it looks all neat as it should, but once it has updated itself and closes (when it needs to close after updating its own interface), upon re-opening, it opens with errors - specifically, the central pane which shows the text "updated x number of files" etc opens and I see HTML code instructions in it, and the pane appears distorted. At the same time I hear the sound of an interface click, which is the sound I hear when popup has been blocked whilst surfing the net. This has the effect of making the advanced options panel load up incorrectly also, meaning I don't have to opportunity to select what I would like ThorUI to auto-open once I have done updating ThorUI (i.e. want it to open eq2map updater but with the ThorUI interface messed up I can't configure it to do so). I've searched through the options on some of the security software I have running in the background to see if I can loosen up some of the pop-up blocking / browser jacking options in them to allow ThorUI to do its business, but to no avail... I guess I could do a selective startup of Windows XP and then open ThorUI updater in an environment where it wouldn't be subject to all my pc defences, but doing that each time I wanted to use it might become a chore - any other users having this issue? Is there some settings somewhere I'm missing that would mean ThorUI's activity wouldn't be detected as pop-up activity or would be allowed (before you say check all my security software to find what might be blocking pop-up.... a) tried it, couldnt find anything out of the ordinary and b) I'm looking for a solution where I don't have to compromise my pc's security... or else what's the point of the security )
Any help appreciated here (when ThorUI AU was first released, it worked fine and I have the same range of security stuff as then...).
Best wishes
Statue |
Thor UI does not do anything unusal with your PC. It uses a standard HTTP GET call on port 80 to download everything. The only thing you have to do is allow Thor UI Auto Updater access to the internet. The PopUp sound you are hearing is probably not my software but instead your firewall software asking if it's OK for my program to access the internet. It's probably popping up behind my software's screen, since I center things like most dialogs will do.
If you are using XP Service Pack 2 you need to go into control panel / firewall and make an exception to TCP/IP traffic for Thor UI Autoupdate.
The distrotions of the screen are another thing. You probably have LARGE fonts selected either in your desktop settings or in your video card driver (ATI Drivers seem to have this problem in spades...go figure..they are the WORST driver producers). Check your font settings and reset to normal.
- MrNice