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~ Today I installed the updated version of Sygate Personal Firewall.

I immediately experienced problems with it. It wouldn't respond to clicking on the

different settings, and when it did respond, it was slow or jerky, and it eventually

just froze.

I uninstalled then reinstalled it, from a different website...again, the same thing.

I went to Sygate's support forum and several people had already posted similar

problems with it. ( Note: I never experienced a problem with the prior version, and it

was uninstalled prior to downloading the new one.)

Sygate's support forum

I thought everyone should know that there is a chance that you may experience a problem, as well.

Edit: I just realized that I posted this in the wrong section...sorry :rolleyes:

(Mantra: Will not post when I'm over-tired!!)

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Hmmm I've been using Sygate for a while now ,,upgraded to the latest ver (firewall) installed it over the top of older ver,,kept my settings ,,and have had no probs with it ! been using it for the last week or so.

Maybe I just have "the luck of the gods" with my comp

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......, tried to find the old version with no luck. If anyone has the url for the older version please share it with us. ........

A tip/suggestion:

Whenever you download a program, save the installer. That way if you ever have a problem, such as this, it's just a matter of falling back to a previous version.

This is the way I do it:

In the My Documents folder, I have a folder named Installers.

In that folder, I have folders for each program; Firefox, Ad-aware, Spybot, Irfanview, etc....

In each of these folders, I have a folder for each version; Firebird v0.7, Firefox v0.8, Firefox v0.9, Firefox v0.9.2, etc...

In each of these folders, I put the installers, and a Notepad doc.

In the Notepad doc, I put all the important info about the installer, that I copy & paste from the website.

Then you can burn your Installers folder, when you burn your back-up disk.

That way, if you ever have a problem with a newer version of a program, or have to reinstall your OS, you have all of your programs on disk, and ready to install. No need to waste time re-downloading all of your programs (especially if you're on dial-up).

Just my $.02 worth.

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tg1911,

I concur with your tip. My main folder is named DOWNLOADS and my sub-folders where I keep my installers are named BROWSERS, FIREWALLS, SECURITY,etc. I take screen shots of all the settings for each application I install so I can reconstruct everything if necessary.

Great tip.

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......, tried to find the old version with no luck.  If anyone has the url for the older version please share it with us.  ........

A tip/suggestion:

Whenever you download a program, save the installer. That way if you ever have a problem, such as this, it's just a matter of falling back to a previous version.

This is the way I do it:

In the My Documents folder, I have a folder named Installers.

In that folder, I have folders for each program; Firefox, Ad-aware, Spybot, Irfanview, etc....

In each of these folders, I have a folder for each version; Firebird v0.7, Firefox v0.8, Firefox v0.9, Firefox v0.9.2, etc...

In each of these folders, I put the installers, and a Notepad doc.

In the Notepad doc, I put all the important info about the installer, that I copy & paste from the website.

Then you can burn your Installers folder, when you burn your back-up disk.

That way, if you ever have a problem with a newer version of a program, or have to reinstall your OS, you have all of your programs on disk, and ready to install. No need to waste time re-downloading all of your programs (especially if you're on dial-up).

Just my $.02 worth.

Hey, thanks tg, I like your system. I'm going to redo my My Documents file like yours. I still haven't found a link to the older sygate version though. :(

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