Wingate Engine Monitor

[Darr]

Win XP Pro, SP3.
Wingate 6.6.4 (build 1338)

Since rebooting after the new windows updates received tuesday (14 DEC 2010), I'm having problems with the Wingate Engine Monitor that loads from the Startup menu.

a) its icon does not appear in the notification area (nee System Tray), though there is a space 'reserved' for it there.

b) it does not appear to actually be monitoring the Wingate engine... I can float the cursor over the blank spot where the icon should appear, and its tooltip pops up saying the engine is stopped (but in fact the engine is started).

See attached screengrab, below.
Area where its icon should appear is circled in red, and the monitor's (incorrect) status tooltip is in the grab, too.

Screen grab demonstrating described problem

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Besides the monthly update of KB890830 (MSRTool), it appears these are the updates I applied:

(KB2467659) - IE8
(KB2447961) - Media Encoder
(KB2436673) - Windows Kernel
(KB2423089) - Windows Address Book
(KB2443685) - time zone update
(KB2440591) - Routing and Remote Access
(KB2443105) - Insecure Library Loading in Internet Connection Signup Wizard
(KB2296199) - OpenType Font (OTF) format driver

So it would seem one of those caused it. I'm thinking the media encoder patch and daylight savings time zone updates are not likely causes... but that still leaves the other six.

Any idea if/when there will be a work-around or outright fix for this problem?

Thanks.

[Nev]

Hey, I would re-install Wingate, you never know it could solve this.

[Darr]

Hey, I would re-install Wingate, you never know it could solve this.

Yeah. So would switching that machine to linux and a free proxy server, which would also eliminate the user limit and give more VPN options.

Get real. I'm supposed to reinstall wingate after every update tuesday?

[Darr]

Oh, and what's up with 60+ notification emails for one reply to my post?

Screen shot of MailWasher

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They all have the same Message-ID: <6510a8a11cf1f745a1a9f3af8d99b265@forum.wingate.com>
So they are technically dupes. Don't know why their panda scanner didn't stop at least some of them.

[adrien]

are the reply notifications still coming in?

Our logs show quite a few messages to your domain, but we can't tell if they are the same one or not. It's PHPBB sending them.

We did upgrade PHPBB over the weekend to cut down on forum spam. It's possibly related.

Regards

Adrien

[adrien]

looks like it was a file / folder permission issue.

phpbb stores the mail queue in the cache folder. If it doesn't have sufficient rights to that folder, it can't delete the queue so resends.

Looks like write access isn't enough to enable deletion.

Sorry for all the duplicate mail.

[Nev]

looks like it was a file / folder permission issue.

Cheers Adrien and the folks at Qbik - see you in 2011. :)