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by Mike McCarthy
Sat Mar 27, 2010 12:08 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: magicJack "disks" empty but MJ works fine
Replies: 48
Views: 28021



Why is MJ set to start without the splash screen? Is that a mod you made?


see: http://www.phoneservicesupport.com/stop-the-splash-screen-from-starting-at-startup-t4263.html


starting from .bat file also means that softphone can be set to start minimized, which mj now won't is incapable of ...
by Mike McCarthy
Sat Mar 27, 2010 9:18 am
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: magicJack "disks" empty but MJ works fine
Replies: 48
Views: 28021

this is changing the topic somewhat, but since mj drives being loaded into memory is mentioned in this thread i'd like to try asking here:

the line "C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\mjusbsp\magicJack.exe" /foreground /scf _magicJackPersonalDataRoot "j:\magicJack"

is used in the ...
by Mike McCarthy
Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:07 am
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: magicJack "disks" empty but MJ works fine
Replies: 48
Views: 28021

Re: Flash drives should never have a defrag ran on them.

I don't want to stir the pot here but. If I understand flash drives which is what is in the magicjack just like the USB thumb drives. You never ever want to run any type of disk defrag on them any way. Flash disks only have so many write cycles to them. Reading from the drive dosn't hurt them but ...
by Mike McCarthy
Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:38 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: magicJack "disks" empty but MJ works fine
Replies: 48
Views: 28021

Ok, ok,....... no need to get huffy. I to have about 0 tolerance for stupidity, but I am just telling you what has happened to me. I am going to try what you said. I am going to do it thru CCleaner/tools. I will post back my results.

I don't think we are communicating. This is nothing CCleaner ...
by Mike McCarthy
Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:55 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: magicJack "disks" empty but MJ works fine
Replies: 48
Views: 28021

Ok, believe it or not, I use PerfectDisk as one of my defragmentation programs. And it has defragged the MJ when it was showing up. All I know is that it seemed as though when I was able to do that a couple of weeks ago, the system was running smoother/faster, like the ATF and CCleaner that I spoke ...
by Mike McCarthy
Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:18 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: magicJack "disks" empty but MJ works fine
Replies: 48
Views: 28021

Joe,
I don't know for sure if not being able to defrag my MJ is what is causing the problems, but it seems to have all started around the same time the MJ was not appearing in my defrag programs. And now running ATF and CCleaner, daily, sometimes more, I have noticed a definite decrease in the ...
by Mike McCarthy
Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:23 am
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: magicJack "disks" empty but MJ works fine
Replies: 48
Views: 28021

Joe,
I don't know for sure if not being able to defrag my MJ is what is causing the problems, but it seems to have all started around the same time the MJ was not appearing in my defrag programs. And now running ATF and CCleaner, daily, sometimes more, I have noticed a definite decrease in the ...
by Mike McCarthy
Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:37 am
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: magicJack "disks" empty but MJ works fine
Replies: 48
Views: 28021

Thanks for getting back so quick Mike! I am still not sure what to do about this problem I am having. I don't whether I should format the MJ or not. I certainly don't want to let it get worse, seeing as how like I said, the system is progressively running slower.

I was blaming my children at ...
by Mike McCarthy
Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:18 am
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: magicJack "disks" empty but MJ works fine
Replies: 48
Views: 28021

Ok, I am going to jump in on the discussion here. The problem I seem to be encountering, is that the Magicjack is no longer showing up in any of my defrag programs to defrag it. This started about 2 or so weeks ago I think. It seems to still be working fine, but, I have noticed my system starting ...
by Mike McCarthy
Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:10 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: magicJack "disks" empty but MJ works fine
Replies: 48
Views: 28021

So I've had MJ for a week and this forum has really helped me work out the kinks. However, I have not been able to format the drives. I have Windows XP SP3 & when I try to create a shortcut and enter "%windir%\System32\taskkill.exe /F /IM magicJack.exe" for the location I get an error message that ...
by Mike McCarthy
Thu Mar 18, 2010 6:55 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: magicJack "disks" empty but MJ works fine
Replies: 48
Views: 28021

So I've had MJ for a week and this forum has really helped me work out the kinks. However, I have not been able to format the drives. I have Windows XP SP3 & when I try to create a shortcut and enter "%windir%\System32\taskkill.exe /F /IM magicJack.exe" for the location I get an error message that ...
by Mike McCarthy
Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:16 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: magicJack "disks" empty but MJ works fine
Replies: 48
Views: 28021

Yeah I am the same way but I ALWAYS make an image of my system first before trying ANY new file or installing a new program as it makes life SO much easier to go back to as it was never there..


Joe Sica

I'm pretty disciplined about having backups (I use Acronis True Image to clone bootable ...
by Mike McCarthy
Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:39 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: magicJack "disks" empty but MJ works fine
Replies: 48
Views: 28021

Also, if anyone finds they can't create a desktop shortcut by right-clicking (as happened to me), I found the fix:

http://www.troublefixers.com/new-shortcut-wizard-does-not-start-or-option-missing-in-windows-vista/

Although I was nervous about running a file that changed the Registry from a site ...
by Mike McCarthy
Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:31 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: magicJack "disks" empty but MJ works fine
Replies: 48
Views: 28021

After the last update what you are seeing is now "normal". I too never had to format my MJ dongle because of ALWAYS using safely remove hardware.
I posted this on another topic on how we have to do it now. I can ONLY guess then why they are doing it now prevents any garbage being writen to the ...
by Mike McCarthy
Thu Mar 18, 2010 3:19 pm
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: magicJack "disks" empty but MJ works fine
Replies: 48
Views: 28021

sounds like the drives were not unmounted correctly at some point or that they where formatted. If the soft phone works correctly you could try running magicfix. Or you could use diskpart to format the stubborn drives then run an update to get it to fix the issue, hope that helps.

The drives were ...
by Mike McCarthy
Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:38 am
Forum: Magic Jack Technical Support
Topic: magicJack "disks" empty but MJ works fine
Replies: 48
Views: 28021

magicJack "disks" empty but MJ works fine

Greetings all,

Having reviewed this forum for a couple hours, I've seen that the topic I'm raising now has been discussed before, but perhaps it will be helpful to discuss it again since MJ has recently updated its software.


Here's the issue (which presents on both my VistaUltimate/SP2 desktop ...