Checking for Updates not working in 2.11.2

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Checking for Updates not working in 2.11.2

Forum: Help

Creator: websurfer83

Created: 2015-04-06

Updated: 2015-05-05

websurfer83 - 2015-04-06

Hello,
when I click "Help" > "About" the "Online Update" does not work any more. It says "Checking for updates..." very long and then displays "Last check 05 april 2015".

I reinstalled but the problem still exists. The OS is Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit SP1. On two other PCs this problem does not exist.

I hope that you can solve this with a future release.

Thanks and bye
websurfer83.

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BasilDane - 2015-04-07

Thanks for taking the time to report it.
I have tested on 3 machines here using 7 Pro 64 and Enterprise. I cannot find any problem. I suspect maybe you have a personal firewall running on your local computer that is blocking the WOL program from checking for updates?

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websurfer83 - 2015-04-08

Thanks for your answer. I am running F-Secure on all my PCs with the same settings and I haven't changed anything. The update check war working perfectly until version 2.11.1. The problem exists only on one PC, the other two PCs (Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit) have no problems...
Do you have any idea what can cause this problem?

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BasilDane - 2015-04-08

I was able to duplicate the problem. I'm looking at it...

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BasilDane - 2015-04-08

This should all be fixed in 2.11.2 beta 10.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/aquilawol/files/Beta/

There was a race condition with several different threads.

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websurfer83 - 2015-04-20

Hello,
I installed 2.11.3 today, but the problem is still there...

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BasilDane - 2015-04-20

Can you give me steps to duplicate it? I've tried and it works perfectly here.

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websurfer83 - 2015-04-30

Hello,
I'm sorry, but I can't help you how to reproduce this problem. I simply installed the 2.11.2 over the 2.11.1 and the problem was there. When I installed the 2.11.3 over the 2.11.2 the problem was still there. It's very strange.

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websurfer83 - 2015-05-04

Hello,
now I found the problem. It was located in the Windows registry, under HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Aquila Technology > WakeOnLAN > AutoUpdater.

I had to modify two entries:
"skip" was 0x00000001 (1) and I changed it to 0x00000000 (0).
"version" was still 2.11.2.0, I changed it to 2.11.3.0

Now it's working fine.

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BasilDane - 2015-05-05

Wow, there must be a bug in the skip version function. I'm going to look into that. Did you select "skip this update" in the past?

Thanks a lot for digging into to this and finding the cause.

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websurfer83 - 2015-05-05

Hello,
I didn't select "skip this update" in the past. But I can tell you that these two entries do not exist on my other PCs. Now I deleted these two entries and the auto update is still working fine.

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