tdehan wrote: > My question was, in the Wiki where does it cover how to do a "clean > install" of LMS?
Depending on what version of LMS you are running, I recall that the Windows installer had a full uninstallation option of all user configuration settings (at least the official versions did). I have not run LMS on a Windows machine in a while, and now run 7.9 in beta without troubles, so do not know if the latest Windows betas still include that feature. Otherwise, here is a rough idea of where you should find the LMS server files in Windows to assure a clean install, including any surviving config and settings files: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Logitech_Media_Server_file_locations The locations for Win10 should be roughly similar to those for Win7, but if not, others will chime in. Start with any available native uninstall option under Windows Settings (or whatever the latest version of Win10 calls it these days). After any uninstall, you should go down the list of file locations and delete all of those files, folders and directories. Don't over delete a larger root folder or directory which might tank other programs. Then be sure to empty your recycle bin. If you want to first back them up to a thumb drive or other backup location for peace of mind, you can do that too. I always strongly recommend that you backup your favorites and playlist files in any event, as they may represent a lot of past work to you, and you can revert back to them once everything is working again. It is easy to back up something before deleting it, but very difficult to recover something once deleted. After deleting all identified files, folders and directories, hard reboot the machine (full power down and manual restart by power button). Where applicable, I would then normally search Windows Registry to locate and scrub any remaining LMS entries, if any. But I do not recommend that step unless you are very familiar with how the Registry works. If you corrupt the Registry, the OS may not properly boot up. I don't recommend automatic Registry scrubbers or optimizers, as my experience is that they can be too aggressive and cause problems. Do it manually if you do it at all. And be sure to backup the system if you decide to ever take that step. After any registry modifications, again reboot the machine. LMS should be completely gone, and you should now be able to reinstall it with default settings. But again, I would not conclude that LMS is the cause just yet. I would start progressively disabling or adding express LMS exceptions to various Windows programs that potentially block incoming connections, such as Defender (which I have not run for ages, use something better such as Eset) and the Windows Firewall, just to make sure that it is not an overly aggressive gatekeeper resetting defaults and blocking after whatever the LMS installer program runs. When I did run LMS in Windows, it would sometimes aggressively block some LMS players, and in particular SqueezePlay, unless multiple express exceptions were entered. And to be honest, Windows 'Firewall' is not that much of a firewall anyway. If you have a robust hardware firewall, you can probably get rid of it and a lot of headaches it causes, by disabling it outright. Your call. Just out of curiosity, what router are you running, and what is the firmware (native or third-party)? Newer router models (particularly the gaming models) now have much more aggressive antimalware protections than in years past, and will block what they identify as malware from passing across the network to other machines to limit infection spread. At some point if these steps do not locate the jam, I would temporarily disconnect the router from your gateway (and the Internet) and then progressively shut down or otherwise completely disable Windows remaining networking protections on that machine, one by one, starting with the Av and firewall, until the machine is running 'naked', with as few possible networking limitations as possible. With Windows, as with later versions of OSX, you might also want to check to make sure that file sharing permissions have not been adversely affected to prevent access to or sharing of LMS resources. I just had this happen in OSX a couple months ago with the upgrade to Mojave. Correcting the file share settings snapped everything back to normal. But because MS updates Windows so frequently anymore, it is probably hard for you to pinpoint if there were any recent OS changes that triggered a settings change. I tend to think you have a networking and/or networking settings conflict, which is a little broader than something in LMS. As you have only recently started using LMS for access to local media on the host machine, that should give you a bit of a clue where the trouble could be originating. But others seem to think it may be a rogue plug in or some other ancillary cause, and they may be the better experts here. I have been involved with IT for decades ancillary to my profession, and am a bit of a networking savant. It has naturally dovetailed into my audio hobby as the technology has evolved. But I do not compile code, and can barely remember DOS anymore. You will have to make up your own mind, and I do not intend to shove any diagnosis and remedy path on anyone. _So_I_am_not_planning_to_offer_any_further_diagnostic_advice_in_this_thread_unless_you_specifically_ask_me_for_it._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sgmlaw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13995 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109856 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
