Makes no difference. When you're on the net....you're on the net.

You're installing this as Administrator...correct?

I may have some help for some of you who are having problems downloading or who need to reinstall. This is what finally worked for me. To do a clean install, I used Revo Uninstaller at the highest search level to remove all traces of Impulse from the registry. Be aware that it may false positive on a couple of Cursor FX files it thinks belong to Impulse. Make sure you check each thing it wants to remove. The number files do seem to belong to Impulse. After uninstalling, reboot. Not necessary usually but since Revo thinks this program is a system component, it may tie into the system in some manner that makes reboot advisable. Reinstall. It should work now. To get it to update correctly, I also had to uninstall ObjectZip because it was generating an error while trying to decompress until I archived ObjectZip. I have some tentative evidence it may also not be able to download and install some things correctly if you are running Zone Alarm's new beta of ForceField. If you are running ForceField, you do not need to uninstall it. Just disable it from your taskbar before downloading. Note that it will close your browser windows to turn itself off.

Everything now working. Downloads still much slower than SDC.

Just for the hell of it, do this and see if it does anything:

Start/ Run/ type (c/p): %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis.exe -i

and these:

regsvr32 jscript.dll
regsvr32 vbscript.dll

It was working fine, now its stuck in an endless loop and I installed on my notebook, same loop. Both Vista machines with 2GB ram and SP1.

It downloads an update and says "An update to impulse is ready. Please Note: You will need to restart impulse before installing any applications. Would you like to restart Impulse now?"

If I click on "Yes" - "There was a problem while Impulse was Auto-Updating, Please try again. Updating/Installing of applications will be unavailable until you restart Impulse"

Only option now is OK. And all you can do is close Impulse and then its the same as selecting "No" from the first dialogue box.

The next time you start Impulse same message "An update . . . ."

So I am in an infinite loop with Impulse, where to from here?

Impulse updated itself again this morning. Aside: does anyone know where to find the version information for Impulse?

I found the following errors in the impulse error log:

-- [29/03/2008 4:14:05 AM] ----------------------------------------------------
Context: CreateRequest XMLRead
Message: dxp_sap 3.49i[rc].021 beta InstallFile
Exception: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.


-- [29/03/2008 4:14:06 AM] ----------------------------------------------------
Context: CreateRequest XMLRead
Message: dxp_sap 3.49i[rc].021 beta UnInstallFile
Exception: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.


My Games information is back in the games tab, but doesn't know they are installed. Following the advise of Hollow Man in post 237, I added a sting value called 'Path' to the Dark Avatar and Twilight keys in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Stardok\Drengin.net\GalCiv2. Setting the path to the install location of GalCiv2. Once Impulse was restarted DA and Twilight showed as installed.

Just a little thing, on the updates and desktop tabs, DeskScapes and IconPackager show up, but with out the exclamation point graphic.

I found the "Restore Archive..." entry under the blue Stardock logo, however there doesn't seem to be a way to change the default location of where the backup files are stored.

In the Preferences... I found and 'Enable Archiving' check box. Does anyone know if this is an archive before download or a download and archive?

All I get at the moment is 'Could not connect to servers, working in offline mode'. SDC connected and updated fine...

Besides cross updating applications seemingly one not knowing the other has updated the application already (other = SDC). I use Kaspersky Internet Security Suite and it yells like crazy when I run impulse.

PASSWORD-PROTECTED.EXE seems to be what it yells about and keeps telling me a new variant of the virus has been detected. This continues for about 5 minutes then settles down till I use it again. I tried everything on my end adding it to the trusted zone etc. I skimmed throught the pages here didn't find anyone else complaining about their AV blowing up.

It crashes and locks up after updating at times as well. I will look at the logs and paste it into this thread.

Overall I love the program and feel it will really be a beneficial tool especially for the novice/new user to stardock. Easier to see all your programs including the serial numbers. It has excellent eye candy made me be impulsive and bought a number of new items from Stardock. Good job guys!

Completely removed, re-downloading, re-installed...

See comments #134, #136, and #137

Fixed my issue, I had disabled COM+ and SENS services.

View History always 404.

DeskScapes and IP don't have an update button, but are on the list. I updated DeskScapes last time I started Impulse but it now insists I have the old version.

Well, it's a start anyway   


I notice that 'More Info' basically takes you to a page to buy the software. Not really informative ... but maybe that is the intent.   

PurrBall, I think that's the 'Show prerelease (Alpha/Beta) versions'