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by techm8
Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:03 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: How can i start magicjack manually from the desktop?
Replies: 11
Views: 10459

Then you need to look into getting an Image Backup Program like Acronis ( www.acronis.com). They have a free trial on their web page of Acronis home 2010. You can make an image or your C: drive and then IF things don't go well you can do a restore and everything will be back to the way it was PRIOR ...
by techm8
Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:46 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: MJ Update today 1/03/10 ??
Replies: 93
Views: 56683

I must have gotten some kind of "update", 'cuz now I keep getting the error message "magicJack has experienced a problem and must be shut down."

This has happened several times in the last day or so. I have never had that problem before. I'm running MJ on a dedicated laptop with a fresh install of ...
by techm8
Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:44 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: How can i start magicjack manually from the desktop?
Replies: 11
Views: 10459

Re: starting magicjack

like i say,
if i could get it to load manually from the desktop that would be much better for me also sure would be great if they could eliminate the picture of the magicjack dongle on my screen.
i would need the procedure to do both in one replay perhaps i have the procedure here on this page but ...
by techm8
Thu Jan 07, 2010 1:42 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: How can i start magicjack manually from the desktop?
Replies: 11
Views: 10459

Re: starting magicjack manually

this procedure doesnt seem to mention anything about starting magicjack manually from a shortcut correct?

Locate the MJ shortcut on your desktop, then in the Target box, enter the path to your MJ folder (as he indicated above).

Also, if your username is not "Adminstrator" you have to change ...
by techm8
Thu Jan 07, 2010 1:39 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: MJ Update today 1/03/10 ??
Replies: 93
Views: 56683

You should never - ever - set your computer's DNS entry to ANYTHING other than your ISP's own servers or if you're using something like OpenDNS (www.opendns.org) which is what I use.

The crackpots over at MJ tech support are just that - crackpots who will just throw stuff at you in order to see ...
by techm8
Wed Jan 06, 2010 4:56 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: faxing with magic jack
Replies: 18
Views: 13328

I have no success sending or receiving faxes on my HP Photosmart C7280 even with error correction disabled and the speed dropped to 9600.

Can anyone recommend a good and reliable online fax service?
by techm8
Wed Jan 06, 2010 4:22 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: Please connect to the internet and double click here
Replies: 2
Views: 4127

Same thing happened to me. Please read.
by techm8
Wed Jan 06, 2010 4:21 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: MJ Update today 1/03/10 ??
Replies: 93
Views: 56683

I fired up MJ today and saw a message in the interface about an important update that would downloaded in 60 secs.

And instead of showing "Ready to Call", MJ showed a message about connecting to the Internet and double-clicking. Did that. Nothing happened. Couldn't make any calls, though I got a ...
by techm8
Fri Jan 01, 2010 9:30 am
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: MJ stops working after splash screen
Replies: 3
Views: 2599

I was having the same problem. So I started from scratch with the steps in this thread and later discovered how to fix the hung splash screen issue.
by techm8
Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:55 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: Windows 7 & magicJack - Get it working in 10 easy steps!
Replies: 11
Views: 36791

After several hours of screwing around with this, I figured out what the problem was.

I noticed that each time I plugged in the MJ, nothing would happen. Apart from the Autorun popping up with two entries. So I disabled Autorun in group policy editor.

I would then manually run the desktop MJ ...
by techm8
Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:02 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: Windows 7 & magicJack - Get it working in 10 easy steps!
Replies: 11
Views: 36791

I had been grappling with this for several hours until I came across this forum and did a search for windows 7 issues.

I followed these 10 steps for my 32-Bit Windows 7 Ultimate install but it still did not start the program nor install the desktop icon when the upgrade completed.

I checked the ...