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Good grief... it's not like this bunny has a huge flopping penis hanging out but I understand the caution in this Age of Puritanism.

LOL. several years ago a girlfriend had a custom t-shirt made for my birthday (my totem is Rabbit)
featuring the above mentioned bunny, a can of Bud and... what you said.

I'd love to show it here, but it's not worth getting baninated.

Here is the useless answer I got from Smith Micro:

*Hello Harry,

That error message is popping up because of the lack of an internet connection.  Simply click on the OK to close out of that error message.

You won't be able to use Content Paradise within Poser because you don't have an internet connection on that computer, but that wouldn't affect the rest of the Poser program so there's nothing to worry about there.

Regards,

xxxxx | Technical Support Lead  

Yeah, well the OK button was non-functional. Thanks for playing, though.

Ah. I did the re-install without the SR3 and everything is working fine again. I'm a happy chapee.

Maybe it's time to move to Daz Studio.

Building a piece of software that relies on bits and pieces of third-party software that may or may not be available and then forcing users to be connected to the web in order for that software to work does not strike me a a viable business plan.
But I guess I'm just old fashioned, expecting something to work right out of the box, so to speak.

Quote - ...make sure that Adobe Flash and Internet Explorer are up to date. Nothing to do with accessing the internet, but Poser 8 uses some of IE's bits and pieces, plus Flash, to communicate with the library.

All that junk is up-to-date. I don't think they have anything to do with this particular problem. P8 is pitching a fit because it wants to talk to Content Paradise. That is not going to happen. Period.

This is just my personal preference, but if a software is going to refuse to run unless it can get online and talk to whomever about whatever, it can bark at the moon for all it matters. I don't need it.

Doing the re-install now without SR3.

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There are things in SR3 you might like though, such as an improved Library and scaling changes...

Laurie

LOL, considering the current situation, I'm not finding much that I like about SR3. Improved Library? What Library? Scaling changes? I'm scaling the wall right now.

Sheesh, talk about improving something to death.

The program obviously wants something from Content Paradise. The question is what does it want, why does it want it, and what happens if it doesn't get it.
What happens if I uninstall Poser and re-install without the SR3. It seemed to work fine before I installed the blasted thing.

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Now go into your prefs, and if the option "Check for Updates on Launch" is enabled, disable it.

Did that, no change.

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 And what happens after you get this irritating but irrelevant error? Do you get another one?

Eventually it times out, the pane goes white and I get an IE message saying "Page not found"

The error message clearly says it wants to talk to Content Paradise. If this is a one time connection to verify registration or something, fine, I can connect it up for a few minutes to take care of business. I don't need this thing talking to it's mommy every time I start it up. I had that problem with my ex. It ain't gonna happen.

Shutting off the Windows Firewall does nothing.

There is no internet connect to this machine. It is isolated and stands alone. (like me)

Here is the Error Message:

FAULT detected!
[FaultEvent fault=[RPC Fault faultstring="HTTP request error"
fault code=Server.Error.Request"
fault detail="Error:[IOErrorEvent type="ioError"
bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2
text="Error#2032"]. URL:
http://www.contentparadise.com/api/search_params.aspx"]
messageID="ED969FD7-85C8-0186-E375-9F7042148B48" type="fault"
bubbles=false cancelable=true eventPhase=2

I'm using a Dell Precision T7500 running XP Professional. Poser 8 is sitting right where it's supposed to be, under C:Program FilesSmithMicro.

It seems to be trying to connect to Content Paradise but ha ha, there's no internet connection on this particular machine. How do I tell the software to "forget it, it ain't gonna happen"?