Need Help With Hoster 4.32 ...

[RIKKI TIKKI]

Hopefully you have a backup computer in case you lose your show computer for whatever reason! I know not everybody has had a computer go down during a show, but you can salvage everything by being prepared for the worse! I always have a backup laptop with me when doing my shows... since Hoster ( other than Hoster Lite ) allows you to copy the program to a second computer, it's silly not to have a second system ready to replace a computer that is malfunctioning... Then you have emergency options!

So Backup, Restore, Re-install... Good Luck!

[kod]

Rikki,

There is NO backup computer in this case...

Cross you fingers!

[RIKKI TIKKI]

Originally Posted by kod

Rikki,

There is NO backup computer in this case...

Cross you fingers!

Yeah that's kinda what I figured, after your initial post... it's more of a precautionary warning to all others that are starting in the business, and don't realize that computer's are finicky, temperamental, pieces of @?#%, that will drain your wallet, your patience, and make you question why you switched over from cdg's! (*not really)
Hopefully you get it all sorted out, and you can get your friend's computer restored to a happier time! Most of us have been there, and are just passing out hard earned knowledge, that will hopefully save the next guy/gal from incurring the same problem!

[kod]

Hey Guys,

I did an uninstall (4.32) and reinstalled Hoster (5) with no help at all!!!

Everything went well with the download, but Hoster still crashes after EVERY song...

OBTW, Hoster 4.32 was not available, so I had to install Hoster 5. Didn't really want to until I got this problem resolved, but had no option!

From here ... completely Bumfuzzled...

I have basically run out of time. This needs to be resloved by 8 pm Saturday night, but I have a show tomight, a Funeral tomorrow morning, a Birthday Party tomorrow afternoon and a show tomorrow night!

I am willing to go to MTU in Raleigh (have been there twice) next week with the laptop if I have to. It's only ~90 miles from me. I just don't know where to go from here...

[RIKKI TIKKI]

Did you try going back and restoring? Date prior to when the problems started... you state that it worked perfectly for 2-3 months... did you save the Hoster.exe file for 4.32 version?

I have heard that the current Norton anti-virus is a bugger to remove, and maybe, just maybe, it is not easy to disable either... but I have AVG antivirus, and had a problem with Hoster 5.xx while beta testing, it would shut down a couple of times during a show, but not after every song! So I wouldn't think that is the problem, unless Norton updated something in the last week, that no one else is reporting a problem with!

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by kod

Hey Guys,

I did an uninstall (4.32) and reinstalled Hoster (5) with no help at all!!!

Everything went well with the download, but Hoster still crashes after EVERY song...

OBTW, Hoster 4.32 was not available, so I had to install Hoster 5. Didn't really want to until I got this problem resolved, but had no option!

From here ... completely Bumfuzzled...

I have basically run out of time. This needs to be resloved by 8 pm Saturday night, but I have a show tomight, a Funeral tomorrow morning, a Birthday Party tomorrow afternoon and a show tomorrow night!

I am willing to go to MTU in Raleigh (have been there twice) next week with the laptop if I have to. It's only ~90 miles from me. I just don't know where to go from here...

There is no mention in this that you restored your computer to an earlier date, did you ?

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by kod

Hey Guys,

I did an uninstall (4.32) and reinstalled Hoster (5) with no help at all!!!

Everything went well with the download, but Hoster still crashes after EVERY song...

OBTW, Hoster 4.32 was not available, so I had to install Hoster 5. Didn't really want to until I got this problem resolved, but had no option!

From here ... completely Bumfuzzled...

I have basically run out of time. This needs to be resloved by 8 pm Saturday night, but I have a show tomight, a Funeral tomorrow morning, a Birthday Party tomorrow afternoon and a show tomorrow night!

I am willing to go to MTU in Raleigh (have been there twice) next week with the laptop if I have to. It's only ~90 miles from me. I just don't know where to go from here...

Try the restore as Roy said. Then do all the updates from that date up till current except for hardware updates. Don't do any of those through Microsoft.
Sounds like they will have to skip karaoke for this Saturday night, since you don't have much time for working on this between now and then.

You will have a better chance of putting in a support ticket and getting Support to connect to the laptop there and work with it. I am sending you a PM about this.
You can download version 4.32 if they want to go back to that. It is in the Support section. There are several versions that can be used. Click on the Hoster button up top in the Support section.

[billyo]

maybe this has something to do with windows media player, have you try upgrading it to latest version..