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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bice Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Looking for USENET client recommendations for Windows Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:21:19 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:21:21 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2258edc2ea6945b6ff6eb05819f3054c"; logging-data="2541386"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/T2eOOryX6azA1YBYdcdTNT56Ph00kX6o=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:pm94MyB7snaWKg6Lk+GcwgvUoZQ= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 250113-4, 1/13/2025), Outbound message On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:16:07 -0800, The Horny Goat wrote: >On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:07:41 -0000 (UTC), Bice Eichler > wrote: > >>Sadly, after using Forte Free Agent for decades, the software has stopped >>working on my Windows 10 computer. I installed a bluetooth driver for >>some new speakers I had bought, and that somehow killed Agent. I tried >>reinstalling it and even getting the latest version I could find online >>(ver. 8) and it still won't install or run. > >I've been using (paid) Forte v 8 for 5+ years for both text and >attachments with no problems. > >I've no idea why a speaker driver would crash it. > >Hopefully I won't have any difficulties when going to my new box >within the next two months (which will almost certainly be Win 11) I never did figure out how to get Free Agent running again (and I still have no idea why a bluetooth driver would kill it), but it was ancient software so it was probably just a matter of time before it stopped working. I did get Agent ver. 8 installed and working. If you're going to install it on a new computer, I hope you kept your registration key. The web page where you could purchase a key apparently hasn't worked in years. After much searching online, I finally found a usable registration key near the bottom of this page: https://www.rocksolidbbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=5261&group=alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent#5261 I'd be more than willing to pay for a registration key if Forte was still selling them, but they aren't. So "borrowing" someone else's key is unfortunately the best I'm going to be able to do. -- Bob