If you do experience a problem using the Exploit Submission Wizard, please scan through the list of known problems and fixes below.
If you are using a release of the Wizard prior to that shown on the download page, we would recommend you download the current version as we may have already fixed your problem.
If you problem is not listed, the first step is to re-install the Wizard. To complete this task you need to do the following:
- Locate the directory /wizard/data
- Copy all files ending in .sav in this directory to another directory. (This will copy your saved sessions to a safe place).
- Use the Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel to remove the current installation of the Wizard.
- Return to the Wizard diretcory and delete all remaining files and directories.
- DELETE THE FILE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WEBSTER.OCX - THIS IS IMPORTANT!
- Re-start your PC.
- Re-run the installation program to install the wizard.
- Re-start the wizard and update the engine data files.
- After the update copy the .sav files back into the newly created data directory.
- Re-start Windows '95 to complete the update of the data files.
Microsoft have issued an update to Windows 95, which should help fix your problem, to quote their page...
"This update resolves a memory leak which occurs when opening and closing a Socket using the Windows Sockets API.
Without this update, running a Windows Sockets application over a long period of time, especially one which opens and closes a large number of sockets, will result a significant resource drain. This can cause the Windows swapfile to grow very large, overall deterioration of performance, and over time, possible system instability. This update allows users to better run such applications for long periods of time without loss of system performance and stability, and without requiring users to reboot their computers periodically to free system resources.
Customers who need to run Windows Sockets applications continuously over long periods of time, especially applications which use a large number of sockets, will benefit from this update."Unfortunately Microsoft are also busy reworking their site, so this file moves about a bit, but last time we
looked you could download the update at
http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q148/3/36.htm
We also suggest you install Service Pack 1 available through the same page as this can also cause problems. This is available at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/info/updates.htm
Run-time error 429 - no appropriate license to use this functionality
This error is caused when another software program has entered invalid information into the Windows '95 system registry about one or more of the common Microsoft support files.
The following procedure should restore the Windows '95 settings to work with all applications.
- Locate the directory /wizard/data
- Copy all files ending in .sav in this directory to another directory. (This will copy your saved sessions to a safe place).
- Use the Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel to remove the current installation of the Wizard.
- Return to the Wizard diretcory and delete all remaining files and directories.
- DELETE THE FILE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WEBSTER.OCX - THIS IS IMPORTANT!
- Re-start your PC.
- Re-run the installation program to install the wizard.
- Re-start the wizard and update the engine data files.
- After the update copy the .sav files back into the newly created data directory.
- Re-start Windows '95 to complete the update of the data files.
Run time error 55 - file already open.
This problem occurs on some machines after updating the data files over a poor connection and results in a corrupt wizard file database. To fix this problem you need to re-install the wizard as detailed above.
This error can occur when upgrading from V2.2a (or earlier) to 2.2b+.
The data file format has been altered in Version 2.2b, so to install the Wizard you first need to un-install the previous copy by following the instructions above.
Run time error 31037 - error loading from file
This problem was fixed in Version 2.2a.
Please download the current version of the wizard from our website.
This problem was fixed in Version 3.00
90% of problems with OC25.DLL are caused by a conflict with Vshield or other high interrupt usage software, for example Compaq power management utilities or Ram Boost.
The only solution we have at present is to disable these programs when running the Wizard if they appear to be causing the conflict.
The Wizard wont connect!
The connection problem will probably be caused by the winsock on your computer.
The Winsock file allows all applications to talk to the net and is supplied by your ISP, however many ISP's are still providing 16 bit winsocks, and the Win 95 version of the wizard requires a 32 bit sock.
The only answer is to download and use the 16 bit version (Windows 3.1) until such a time as your ISP updates their connection software.
The Wizard will not submit to some sites
The Submission Wizard has a time-out feature built in to ensure it does not wait forever when some engines are busy. Please let us know if this happens a lot with a particular engine.
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