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Mar 24^th, 2004 at 8:38pm

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My computer locks up each time I try to use realworld weather. Microsoft help said to try a clean boot (didn't work), and to check port 80 (which I don't know how to check).

Does any one have any ideas how to help with this problem?

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Reply #1 - Mar 25^th, 2004 at 5:51am

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I had the same problem awhile back and it came down to M$ blaming my ISP and my ISP blaming M$.

M$ told me to check port 80 also, I did this by going through my ISP, I know that your port 80 isn't blocked it seems to be the only answer that M$ gives to people, of course it is never a M$ problem!
The way I fixed this and you might find this extreme but I removed all M$ hotfixes, SP1, and disabled all automatic downloads.
Reason is because everytime M$ auto downloaded something my computer would go haywire , programs would crash or just not run at all!
After removing all the crap M$ says "you need" and reinstalling FS9, the sim works great, Real world weather works everytime, and my computer is more stable now than ever before!! As a matter of fact it hasn't crashed once since removing all the M$ downloaded crap!!!!

I can't say this will work for you so do so at your own risk, but I not only did this on my computer but too a few friends and we all now enjoy a faster more reliable computer!

One less extreme thing you might check into first is ,to be sure if you have a firewall it is set to allow FS9 to connect to the Internet!
Best of luck, I hope you get this figured out soon!!

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Reply #2 - Mar 25^th, 2004 at 9:17am

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yea of course it's never microsofts problem, nor is it anyone elses problem, everyone in this business loves to pass the buck to someone else. darn corporations disban them all !

in regards to the real wx, maybe give it a minute or two, i have a relitivley fast pc and high speed internet and i still have to wait a minute or so when i turn that option on.

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Reply #3 - Mar 25^th, 2004 at 9:29am

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Are you running a Firewall? There was a version of ZoneAlarm that choked on RealWeather. I would imagine some other firewalls also have had problems with RealWeather. The latest Pay & Free versions of ZoneAlarm work with Realweather.

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