Thank you for the links. Yes - it was a resources issue. Now Gip flies, and other web pages open up immediately.
There were two culprits - hogging 100% of the cpu - that I've now got rid of. Using Task manager and Resource Manager the hogs were: 1/ msmpeng.exe - an anti-malware executable from MSE or MS Defender. Using MSConfig this has now been disabled - never to be restarted; and 2/ an Abode Acrobat plugin for Chrome - two versions of which were running and both hogging 100% of the cpu. These have now been closed down. No wonder nothing else ojuld run, the above apps were causing the cpu to remain at 100%, with a huge amount of disk accessing which I presume was the swap file paging. Now all is well - and I can even download Springwatch!!! CJB. On 06/06/2015, Vangelis forthnet <northmed...@the.forthnet.gr> wrote: > On Fri Jun 5 23:29:47 BST 2015, CJB wrote: > >> Things were great yesterday (Thursday) >> (snip) >> Sadly things today (Friday) have not gone well. > > I'm out of my depth here (???) - I was about to say > that only YOU know what could have changed in your > system between yesterday and today (e.g. MS updates, > MSE definitions files, other AntiVirus used definition > updates etc.) when I just saw a quasi-relevant post on > the Support Forum: > https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/topic/web-pvr-manager-fails-to-fork-after-a-day-or-so/ > (one system also being Win7). > Do not have a Win7 box here to try > and reproduce... > Given the user share of Win7, > if this is a more general issue, expect > more reports in the list/forum... > > In the meantime, can you ping localhost? > In an administrator command prompt window > (Start -> "Start search field" type: cmd -> > right click the "cmd.exe" result and run as admin -> > this opens: > C:\Windows\system32> > type: "ping localhost" (without quotes), if > localhost (i.e. your own computer) is running, > you'll get something like: > > Pinging (name of PC) [::1] from ::1 with 32 bytes of data: > Reply from ::1: time<1ms > Reply from ::1: time<1ms > Reply from ::1: time<1ms > Reply from ::1: time<1ms > > Ping statistics for ::1: > Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), > Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: > Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms > > C:\Windows\system32> > > It may also be that another app on your machine > is using port 1935, so there might be a port conflict... > Or for whatever reason port 1935 may have been > blocked (firewall rule?) > As a longshot, please also try > http://stackoverflow.com/a/873778 > (backup your hosts file first: > C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts > - if you mess it up > you'll lose all internet connections... > Search the net on how to enable hosts > file editing on Win7) > >> This issue has effectively stopped me >> from downloading everything and anything. > > This is an over-dramatised hyperbole... > Have you tried the CLI? If it works > (most probably), it can do the same (and much > more) as the GUI - ample instructions on > how to use the CLI on the GiP Wiki: > > https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/documentation#command-usage > https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/manpage > > If the CLI doesn't work at all, > then you've got a serious problem on your hands... > > Regards > > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer > _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer