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VAs not using SMARTCARS?


Andrew Grey 1345811
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Andrew Grey 1345811
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I guess my SMARTCARS quit working for no reason whatsoever other than some vague reference to a parsing error . I have exhausted all options of fixing it. I fly for three different VAs that all exclusively use this.

 

So since I can no longer use SMARTCARS, can someone direct me to a USA-based VA which does not use SMARTCARS?

 

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Andrew

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Andrew Grey 1345811
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I've found that it's not a Smartcars problem. My active sky, smartcars, and FSX internal weather will not re3cognize the internet. Ive checked everywhere and have found no answers to this. Everything I have tried has not worked. Downloaded netframework and it said I had the latest version, tried the netframework fix-it tool and it said the problem cannot be fixed, tried the browser proxy settings... nothing has worked. I cannot connect to the internet through any FSX add-ons needing to.

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Bradley Grafelman
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Have you tried temporarily disabling Windows Firewall (and any other firewall software you may be using)?

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Andrew Grey 1345811
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Yup. It's looking like I have to re-install Windows 10 and I don't even have the disc for it. I guess that's the end of my hobby after 30 years, or til I buy a new computer. I have tried everything, read a ton of articles on this. This is no cure that I know of.

 

Thanks.

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Randy Tyndall 1087023
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Andrew,

 

Have you recently changed Internet Providers, gotten a new or different modem, or using a different router?

 

Any or all of those reasons could cause a block to certain types of connections.

 

Randy

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Andrew Grey 1345811
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No Randy, nothing in the last month. Got a new Ellipsis Jetpack by Verison about a month ago, but everything has been working fine. I didnt even make a single change to my system which was working fine yesterday morning. I tried to install Bitdefender and even that could not find the internet so I could download/install it. Steam won't connect. The only thing that DOES connect are my internet browsers. I am absolutely baffled.

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Andrew Grey 1345811
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I tried messing with my firewall settings as per some azzhat's suggestion and now I cannot restopre the default settings, it is saying

 

"Windows Firewall can't change some of your settings. Error Code 0x80070422

 

I wish I majored in error codes in college, heh. No idea what this means and now I am afriad to mess with it further. I am of the sort that in this situation, just throw the (year-old) computer in the garbage can and buy a new one. I am abot done with computers altogether due to this kind of thing for the last 30+ years. Just fed up with all of it.

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Norman Blackburn
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In Windows 10 you can create a disk / USB or you can have it return to it's initial install.

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Andrew Grey 1345811
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Thanks, Norm. I will definitely look into that. I haven't had a situation arise where I ever needed to re-install any Windows, ever.

 

I somehow just managed to fix this thing. I am not sure what I did, but I started playing around with the proxy server settings and viola, it started working. Crazy.

 

Thanks for your help, above you guys.

 

Andrew

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