Posted by Don M. on 01/20/06 11:28

"Argent" <silver@hi.ho> wrote in message
news:gcd8k1hrkm7rsq77veuvdj418ql4e5bvul@4ax.com...
> Perseus --
> > This would have been a simple and quite nice explanation if true, but I
> > think it's not. When I used the "hosts" file, before switching to the
> > ".dll" solution, I had a black background in that bar with a message,
> > just like I have now whilst using the ".dll" solution.
>
> The DLL does nothing for me on WinXP, but the hosts file does, and
> my box has always been black and said "Please Be Patient!!!" in yellow
> when using it.
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The box displays whatever is at http://www.winmx.com/v353/mainbar/index.html (on version
3.53)
It will be blank whenever www.winmx.com doesn't resolve to an existing IP address, or the
site is down, or the particular html file doesn't exist, etc.
If you're using the current hosts patch, www.winmx.com should resolve to 205.238.40.2 and
what you see is actually the following message:
http://205.238.40.2/v353/mainbar/index.html (version 3.53);
http://205.238.40.2/v331/mainbar/index.html (version 3.31), and so on.

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