My hosting provider has broken all versions of Spec and SpecWeb!

[Dale H.]

I just moved the program to my D drive again, get the update error, but it works again! Sorry for the bother. I should have moved it to begin with. Must be a stupid Windows update thing or something; being in a Windows Program Files folder. I don't remember why I installed it there a few months ago!!

Actually, I spoke too soon. It looked like it was working but it just stopped with the processing window still open. I will do a totally fresh install.

After a fresh install onto my D drive, it's working again! Thanks for your responses!

 

[zeerround]

No problem. Glad you got it going.

 

[Charly Mann]

Here is an ugly Band-Aid for people to try while I continue work on this.

Edit (as Administrator) C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and add this line:

127.0.0.1 www.surroundbyus.com

This will block your connection to www.surroundbyus.com and SpecWeb will complain about not being able to check for a new version but it will run!

Then you will need to remember that block is there, if you ever want to go to surroundbyus.com for anything (like a new specweb version!). You CAN, however, got to surroundbyus.com, without the www.

I suppose a firewall rule would serve as well but haven't tested that.

Any fix yet for Windows 11 or work around?

 

[zeerround]

Is it broken again? I've had the host file band aid in place here.

Just tested with the bandaid removed and it seems OK.