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🖥️ActiveHome Pro => ActiveHome Pro General => Topic started by: X10 Pro on June 15, 2005, 07:37:36 PM
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Paul Mayfield: Use the link in the first post <BR>in this thread to download the update <BR>installer direactly. That should do the trick.
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Now that I have installed iWitness and
upgraded to 3.187 at the same time, I
notice a problem that may or may not be
related to the upgrade. To monitor my four
cameras I leave AHP up and running on my
computer overnight. Invariably after
several hours it locks up and I can't do
anything until I've done a cntrl/alt/delete
to close the "not responding" program, AHP.
Again though, I never had occasion to leave
AHP open for hours at a time before so this
may have existed in previous versions. Is
it an iwitness problem or a 3.187 problem
or something peculuar to my system, that is
the question.
By the way, I too had the problem upgrading
directly from AHP. No crash, but it just
sat there and did nothing. Had to use the
direct link, which went smoothly.
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X10 Pro 6/15/2005 04:37 PM
Paul Mayfield: Use the link in the first
post in this thread to download the update
installer direactly. That should do the
trick.
DIDN'T work for me.
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WINDOWS 98
WHY DON'T YOU ALL GET RID OF THIS CRAPPY
VERSION OF WINDOWS AND MOVE TO XP. I AM
SURE YOU ARE ALL HAVING OTHER PROBLEMS AS
WELL. MOVE UP IN THE WORLD AND YOU WILL
HAVE MORE TIME TO SPEND WITH YOUR FAMILY
AND LESS TIME TRYING FIX A BAD OPERATING
SYSTEM.
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"Paul 6/16/2005 08:44 AM
WINDOWS 98 WHY DON'T YOU ALL GET RID OF
THIS CRAPPY VERSION OF WINDOWS AND MOVE TO
XP. I AM SURE YOU ARE ALL HAVING OTHER
PROBLEMS AS WELL. MOVE UP IN THE WORLD AND
YOU WILL HAVE MORE TIME TO SPEND WITH YOUR
FAMILY AND LESS TIME TRYING FIX A BAD
OPERATING SYSTEM."
Spoken like a true sap.
I am sure you are driving a Rolls Royce, new
model every year and new chauffeur every
month. :)))
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easy upgrade to XP...
http://www.techliving.com/article/1171.html
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A couple of observations-
Upgrade went fine, no issues.
3 of my neighbors and I run almost the same
equipment. I've never had any issues, they
had constant problems till this past week.
We all trekked to each others houses and
looked at the installs to compare notes. The
problems my neighbors were having all
related to the following:
1. Norton Security dll's interfering with X10
2. A plethora of memory resident programs.
3. An overtaxed system (memory)
By diabling their virus software for
install, then using program manager to kill
all their assorted little "helper" programs,
we found that all 3 would install and run
fine. A little detective work allows you to
see which programs are giving you grief.
I know this won't work for everyone, but
these guys were ready to scrap their
hardware and now it all works fine.
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Keith -
Were your neighbors problems with the
install of 3.187, or were they having other
problems?
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Jeff W 6/16/2005 01:42 PM
easy upgrade to XP...
http://www.techliving.com/article/1171.html
Is there a freebie XP?
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Sure there's a free XP, buy a new
computer... ;)
No, Microsoft is in the business of making
money so they aren't going to give away
their product (you might find a good deal on
a site like
http://www.edealinfo.com/tech.shtml). If
you buy a new PC the cost of the OS is part
of total cost of the new box. I've seen the
XP Home version upgrade around $90 and lower
with rebates and specials at places like
Fry's.
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"PigBear 6/17/2005 12:55 PM
Sure there's a free XP, buy a new
computer... ;) No, Microsoft is in the
business of making money so they aren't
going to give away their product (you
might find a good deal on a site like
http://www.edealinfo.com/tech.shtml). If
you buy a new PC the cost of the OS is
part of total cost of the new box. I've
seen the XP Home version upgrade around
$90 and lower with rebates and specials at
places like Fry's."
I recently got a new laptop that has XP.
Using it with a router in my house. Why
should I pay again for XP after I bought it
once? Either I own it or not.
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"PigBear 6/17/2005 12:55 PM
Sure there's a free XP, buy a new
computer... ;) No, Microsoft is in the
business of making money so they aren't
going to give away their product (you
might find a good deal on a site like
http://www.edealinfo.com/tech.shtml). If
you buy a new PC the cost of the OS is
part of total cost of the new box. I've
seen the XP Home version upgrade around
$90 and lower with rebates and specials at
places like Fry's."
I recently got a new laptop that has XP.
Using it with a router in my house. Why
should I pay again for XP after I bought it
once? Either I own it or not.
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I strongly encourage staying up to date
when at all possible. Both of my computers
are running the latest version of Windows
XP.
However, regardless of how much better it
is to have XP, upgrading is not always a
piece of cake. I've know several people in
the industry that recommend a complete
install of the new XP software not the
upgrade. Not to scare anyone away from XP
but I've heard some horror stories that
actually did not work until the complete
software was loaded. (Retail price $200.)
Also for an old computer you will most
likely need to add more memory. (More $$$)
Bottom line is some computers just aren't
worth upgrading. So it's unfair to expect
everyone to be able to replace their
software or their computer.
It shouldn't be impossible to have AHP work
on older versions of windows.
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P.S. What makes X10 such a deal is that it
is a low cost solution for our automation
needs. If we all had unlimited finasional
resources, would we still be working with
AHP just to save money?
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That was suppose to be "financial".
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Arf -
2 were having upgrade problems, 1 has been
having issues for about 6 months. All of it
cleared up when we cleaned up the systems. I
run XP pro, 2 run Win2000 and 1 runs XP Home.
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I don't know why anyone still bothers with
Activehome.
For the price of the CMA15 and Smartmacros,
you can get Smarthome's CUP1132.
I've been running it for at least 3 months
now.
I set it up... and forgot about it.
Everything works the way it's supposed to.
Also coming is Insteon.
For those of you now considering home
automation, there is an Insteon starter kit.
It ALSO works as claimed without any
glitches.
This website http://www.hnausa.com/ has the
best prices and great service.
Trust me... the prices are not that much
more than X10. And that little increase is
worth MORE than the headaches one has to
deal with using Activehome.
Good Luck everyone.
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The license you bought for XP is a single
seat, not a site or house license. So you
bought a license for one PC, if you want to
run XP elsewhere you have to buy another.
Per seat licensing, or site licensing is
available to businesses, but not
individuals - probably not much of a market.
Anyway you agreed to that when you installed
or activated XP, the agreement says it in
the legal disclosure. Additionally you
don't actually own the software, you're just
paying for the ability to use it, which can
be revoked. This is a standard licensing
agreement, not something Microsoft cooked
up. Symantec, McAfee, Adobe, etc., all have
such standard EULA's (End User License
Agreements).
As for upgrading an existing system - you
can avoid issues by wiping your hard drive,
re-installing Windows 98, ME, etc, and then
installing the XP upgrade. The issues
arrise when there are problems with your
current installation of Windows 9x you may
or may not know about, that are passed on or
cause more problems during the upgrade.
The price of PC's keeps falling, hopefully
the prediction will come true that you'll
buy the OS and they'll give you a PC to go
with it. You can find a sub $300 PC now, I
wouldn't try playing the latest graphic
intensive games on it, but it would be fine
for surfing the Internet, controlling X10,
light gaming, doing your checkbook, etc. As
they get cheaper it'll be like buying
another appliance for your home.