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(1) Every time I start the program I get the "Message of the Day" window, even though I have that box unchecked in the setting.

(2) Cannot pause the program. Clicking on the Pause button only pauses the program for a few seconds and then it automatically un-pauses itself and continues downloading. If I right click on a file and selecting "Pause Download" it does pause the download, but it's not immediately obvious because it still says "Running" down on the bottom right of the screen.

(3) Cannot do a clean install of Beta 12. I have an SSD so I keep the Newsbin data folder on a different drive (E:\Documents\Newsbin). I recently re-installed Windows and when I tried to install Beta 12 it would not use my location for the data folder. During installation I told it to use E:\Documents\Newsbin but it just ignored that and used the default location on C:

I was able to fix this by installing the official release first, then installing Beta 12. (Maybe this is a feature not a bug since it is a beta?)

1 - I'd re-register using the help menu and "update key". If you're unregistered or something is wrong with the registration, it'll pop every time.

2 - You have the scheduler turned on. Turn it off and you'll have complete manual control of pause.

3 - I'll mention this to Dex. Sounds like an installer issue. It's likely that you're right though and that the beta installer isn't a complete installer.

Quade wrote:1 - I'd re-register using the help menu and "update key". If you're unregistered or something is wrong with the registration, it'll pop every time.

2 - You have the scheduler turned on. Turn it off and you'll have complete manual control of pause.

3 - I'll mention this to Dex. Sounds like an installer issue. It's likely that you're right though and that the beta installer isn't a complete installer.

1 - Before I saw your answer, I went back to 6.73 and had the same problem. Restored my data folder from a backup and it seemed to fix the problem. Will remember your "re-register" idea in case I have the problem happens again.

2 - No. I thought of that, but I made sure the scheduler was turned off and still had the problem.

BUT, I did accidentally fix the problem. In the Newsbin data folder there's a directory called "Nzbs". Under that was a sub-directory called "Nzbs" that had some nzb files in it. I thought that looked weird and something that probably wasn't supposed to be that way. So, I deleted that sub-directory and then the pausing problem went away.

It makes no sense but computers are weird.