Now is a good time to try out a more fully featured client.
HydraIRC
mIRC
Trillian

I like and use Trillian because it aggregates other chat clients too (AIM, yahoo, MSN, IRC).

Philly; you want a simple IRC client, try this one Talkative

You mean I didn't have to write my own in QBasic?

I'd imagine that soon, Impulse will get the updates first and we'll be weened off SDC.

I'll miss her . . but I missed Component Manager for about a week too.  It may work better than the options. 

I miss having the link to the Application Histories, where one could see the changes that have been implemented in the update.

Impulse looks great & all, but if it crashes on launch on a garden variety Dell XPP SP2 rig, it's not much use. For that reason in particular, I would not recommend forcing us to abandon SDC any time soon. I respectfully request that be delayed until Impulse actual installs & works.

I'm a little disappointed (maybe a lot disappointed) in the decision to use BITS - Windows Update fails virtually every time I use it on every one of my XP machines - it just locks up after updates are downloaded and installation is initialized (I'm doing nothing else when I update). It will sit there @ 0% progress on the first update for an hour or more, I'll have to kill it with TaskManager & the only way to rerun it is to reboot & try again, which sometimes works. I waste incredible amounts of time getting updates to install to completion - I don't look forward to having similar issues with ObjectDesktop application updates. Whatever method is used with SDC is not broken: it is lightning fast and trouble-free - hard to understand why it needed to be "fixed."

OK, nfortunately, I am starting to have many problems with Impulse. It tries to update itself and veeeeery slowly downloads updates. Then it still says it needs to update if I try to download anything. So I restart it and it updates itself again. Restart, same thing. Multiple times it fails trying to decompress a file because it claims some other application is using it. Nothing was using it to my knowledge, but I rebooted to make sure and launched ONLY Impulse. Still it couldn't decompress its own update. I have uninstalled it, and like another user I had to use Revo Uninstaller. It found a ton of files left behind. It also warned me about uninstalling Impulse because it thinks it is a "System component." Normally it only gives that error if you try to uninstall a Windows component, so I am wondering why it thinks Impulse is a system component using whatever heuristic detection it uses. Clean installing Impulse now...if it ever finishes. It is hung on the please wait screen and is showing the progress bar complete on https://stardock.cachefly.net/impulse/300/impulse.7z. Just sitting there. I will try the MS uninstaller, but Revo uninstalls cleaner than anything else I have ever tried and it has never failed to find pieces before. Very rarely it will find a few false positives. I really like Impulse. I just wish I could get it to work smoothly. I am not criticizing the overall design and programming or anything. I know it is a beta and will have glitches at this stage. I hope you can get the downloading and installing problems some of us have been having fixed soon but it takes however long it takes and I know that too. If worst comes to worst and it takes a little time to get it working for everyone, those of us having problems with it can always just use the Wincustomize site until then.

Impulse reports that my serial # for my Object Desktop subscription is invalid. The serial # on the registration screen is correct and Impulse allows me to download and install the components of Object Desktop but that line on the reg screen is highlighted in red and has "Invalid" in the expiration date column.

Puzzling.

Magus

I got that too, but then I noticed right below it, that I now have a subscription for Object Desktop ULTIMATE with the same serial...   

Hey BigDogBidFeet, all though those don't show up in the registrations tabe of Impulse they are still listed under the setting tab and registrations from the WC home page. At first I thought they were gone also.   

I was still having problems with an invalid ObjectDock Plus registration till i fixed it by having support e-mail all my reg. codes.
Wonder why they were different?  

And equally, if not more important, what about restoring archives ... don't see that option anywhere ...


well, except for SDC ... hehe