[Mother]

Originally Posted by AlGeorge

Unfortunately, I must agree with the OP. This program is extremely unstable. Here is what I have found and would be happy if support would make some constructive suggestions.

1..minor point during installation could not copy or paste password from my password generator as the edit fields have those functions disabled.

We will enable this on the edit fields, it's a minor change.

2..After 1st install and manual instantiation, the program crashed after my first password input.
3..After a WinXP (Edition 2) reboot, there were 15 instantiations of Whisher, which eventually crashed the PC again, with 'Whisher encountered a problem' (standard Win API error dlg). I rt clicked the bunch of whisher in the task bar and 'close group' which 'seemed' to work. Then every time I tried to bring another program up, whisher appeared. Whisher even took over Windows task manager hotkeys and brought up instantiation of itself rather than Task manager on Ctrl-Alt-Del.

We implement a hook that intercepts calls to Windows' native WiFi manager, and show our plugin instead. This should not affect anything else, so there is something very wrong going on in your case.

4..Uninstalled it, then uninstalled 2hotspot which I thought may have been interfering even though it was disabled. Reboot, re-install whisher. Same crazy performance with it taking over everything.

2hotspot has managed to screw up every PC we have tested it on, one way or another. It installs a very low level interface to take over the network adapter, and this messes up a lot of things. We cannot guarantee that Whisher will work with 2hotspot or any similar software. Uninstalling it probably did not fix Whisher, as it had been installed over 2hostpot - in one severe case, I found that I had to reinstall XP to get a laptop to work again after trying 2hotspot (Whisher was not even installed).

5..Eventually I ignored the invasive nature of the program and got logged in, but did it show any wifi icons? zilch, even though my own hotspot was operating with 3 nodes using it.

The nature is not of being invasive, what you experience is a nasty set of bugs - we are going to look into these ASAP.

I had disabled antivirus which incidentally it killed of its own accord on the first running of the program. And its ability to kill other programs is just plain scarey.

Can you tell me what antivirus this was? There is nothing intentional in killing any other application, and in any case, I would not really trust an antivirus that can be killed by an installed application .

What in the world is going on? I have not had any other program behave in this errant fashion in the past, and my PC has never exhibited any defective behaviour until use of your program.
Have uninstalled it, but will appreciate any suggestion, and report if it does work as meant.
I am not using an internal wifi card, but a Dlink DSL-G604T, which is an external router/adsl modem/wifi.
Cheers,
Alistair.

I think this explains a lot - Whisher is not meant to work on desktop computers with wired LAN adapters (it can work if you have a PCI or USB adapter installed). Thus, it will never show any wireless signals, as you mention, and can have all kinds of erratic behavior. You have to understand that the last setup we would ever consider is a wired desktop - as there is basically zero use for Whisher.

Best regards,

Mike

[Mother]

Originally Posted by AlGeorge

On my notebook it installed ok. Its apparent there is something on my main PC which the software/drivers dont like. The notebook uses a usb wifi connection.

Hi again,

I have answered to your previous post, but it seems clear that on your desktop it was bound to fail

If you want to join the beta testing team you're welcome to do so, we are going to hand out free WiFi Out vouchers for people to test with, and every opinion counts!

Best regards,

Mike

[AlGeorge]

Hello Mike.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
I would be happy to help you test if I can. Incidentally, I have 20 years experience as a programmer etc so might be of some use to you.

Once I'd found it worked without going crazy on the Notebook I knew it was something to do with my PC. However, the fashion that it ran amock I have as I said, never experienced before.

Ah, I forgot to mention that I also have MyWifi zone installed (had not realised it also installs separate driver which have just noticed in the network properties now.)

I had suspected Apple Ipod Touch drivers as Ipod Itunes is not a stable bit of software, so killed that driver as well.

Avast! is the antivir but its also the antivir on the notebook. I disable it before trying to run Whisher on the main (defective) unit.

Have just disabled all and restarted Whisher even though you say it will not operate on this machine it should at least be stable. It logs in OK, but of course does not show any wifi prescence. When I try to close it though it keeps up errant closure behaviour as mentioned before.

I would humbly suggest to make whisher more useful that you make it work with equipment such as mine (still uses a network card) this is a very common piece of hardware and 2hotspot/Mywifizone and others operate with it NP.
Alistair.

[AlGeorge]

Lets know your support email if you want my logs from whisher.
Alistair