Moving MJ from XP to Win 7

starrouter · Post by **starrouter** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:15 am

Hello everyone. I installed my MJ last February and have been using it for 10 trouble free months now. In the next week or so I am going to be replacing my hard drive and Installing Windows 7 home prem. (64bit). It has been so long since I installed MJ I don't remember exactly how to get it installed and running. I wanted to check and find out everything I need to do to make my MJ transition to the new OS be smooth. I am currently running it on XP and using it as a service so I don't have to leave the computer logged in and would like to do that with the new OS. I also can use the keypad on the phone instead of the little MJ software dialer. Where can I download the MJ software, and all the little add ons like running it as a service, and get it reconfigured once my OS is up and running ? Would just like to get prepared before jumping into things. As always, thanks in advance for any assistance.

Mike

Post by **laserjobs** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:57 am

Latest magicJack update
http://upgrades.magicjack.com/upgrade/upgrade.exe

MagicJack Service Creator
http://www.evanvaughan.com/magicjack.aspx

starrouter · Post by **starrouter** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:15 pm

Thanks laserjobs. It's run so good for so long I'm a little nervous about moving it to a new OS but hopefully it will go smoothly. Are there any gotcha's about Windows 7 ? Also, do I need to back anything up for MJ from the old system to reuse on the new OS ?

Post by **laserjobs** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 7:07 pm

starrouter wrote:Thanks laserjobs. It's run so good for so long I'm a little nervous about moving it to a new OS but hopefully it will go smoothly. Are there any gotcha's about Windows 7 ? Also, do I need to back anything up for MJ from the old system to reuse on the new OS ?

nothing should need to be backed up and MJ version 2.06 seems to be working fine on both Windows 7 64 and 32 bit versions.

starrouter · Post by **starrouter** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 4:44 pm

I installed Windows 7 this morning. Probably the simplest windows install I ever did. magic jack was detedted by windows and even had what looked like the right icon for it. I installed the magic jack software and the magic jack works fine with the dialer, but when I installed it as a service, I no longer have a dialtone. hmmm. Rebooted and tried it again and still no dial tone. I checked the services and the magicjack service was there and running but no dialtone. Restarting the service didn't help. I ran the service installer again to remove the service and put the magicjack dialer back in and now it's working fine but I have to used the dialer. Reinstalled the service, and no dial tone again. Removed the service and it works with the dialer. This is a clean OS install. magic jack is the only thing installed at this point, no updates or antivirus yet so there shouoldn't be anything interfering with it. Running it as a service worked gret under xp. I looked at the .NET 3.5.1 installation and there are a couple of communications options there that aren't enabled, could that be the problem ? Thanks

starrouter · Post by **starrouter** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:17 am

update - I enabled the two communications options in .NET and reinstalled the magicjack service but still have no dial tone. I have removed the service and am using the software dialer for now.

pilgrim · Post by **pilgrim** » Mon May 28, 2012 5:43 pm

starrouter wrote:update - I enabled the two communications options in .NET and reinstalled the magicjack service but still have no dial tone. I have removed the service and am using the software dialer for now.

i see this is an old post and that no one responded to your last update..........did you ever get the mj to run as a service on windows 7 yet?

have you had any problems with the mj since? i ask because mine is not working right at all and it all started after i began using it on win 7.

thanks
kevin