magicJack and magicJack Plus Support, Reviews, FAQs and Tricks

wetheridge wrote:I have been trying to find information about running MagicJack as a Windows Vista Service. I have located postings that apply to other operating systems but nothing for Vista. Can anyone help me?

Wayne

I'll settle for a Windows service, did you find instructions for that?

Peter

I just have my friends call me, let it ring one or two times and then hang up. I call them right back. They have never been charged LD and my call is FREE.....And if you are not there to see it, it shows up in RED as a missed call. Then you call them back. Is this a perfect system, no, but it is ...

Your post is cut off.
You just need to attach a regular phone cord from the MJ RJ11 socket to anywhere on your house internal phone wire, either a wall jack or the main feed where you would disconnect the external feed.

Guess the issue is that the latest upgrade expects you to have an audio card in the system.
I am running it on a server class machine that does not have any sound card in it and that appears to be what the softphone software is complaining about. Am also using W2k3.

Would be nice to be able to ...

Thanks for the info on how to revert and also how prevent the unsolicited upgrade.
received another upgrade this morning that did not fix the "no audio devices" issue. Your revert procedures worked with no problem and I am back with the MJ runinng on a Windows 2003 standard server.

Again many ...

Guess the issue is that the latest upgrade expects you to have an audio card in the system.
I am running it on a server class machine that does not have any sound card in it and that appears to be what the softphone software is complaining about. Am also using W2k3.

Would be nice to be able to ...

Does Vmware support usb devices? If not it won't work.
MS VirtualPc and VirtualServer won't work for the same reason.

Have had MJ running with no problem on W2K3 server for a couple of months, macine is never switched off. This morning received several Windows updates and then machine restarted.
When the machine came back up MJ started OK and then took an MJ upgrade, MJ shut down then came back up said I had been ...

At a minimum J&R are resellers

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There is no real way to un-install this as it never actually installs. The best you can do is to clean up the few reg entries that are hanging around, I don't even see any associated folder on my machine when the usb device is not inserted..
It looks like the device has a small flash drive on it ...