No page to display - Action Cancelled on reboot

[jkowal5]

Whenever our Internet computers reboot, they go to a blank page that says, "No page to display -- Action Canceled -- Internet Explorer was unable to link to the Web page you requested. The page might be temporarily unavailable." If we click on the Home button or Refresh, it displays our home page as we have configured, and never displays the blank page again until the computer is rebooted again. We are using the URL.txt with +all, +res:, and -C:\\ and I have tried everything I can think of. Obviously I'm missing something, maybe in the ini file? Can anyone think of something I should be looking for? Thanks!

[Scott]

I was just helping a few others with this problem. The problem stems from starting PWB before Windows has fully initialized the network. This could before many reasons including starting PWB from the Run key in the registry, or when running PWB as the Windows shell.

The soluiton is to use an application the checks to see if the network is up and then start PWB. I wrote a small application that does just that.

http://www.teamsoftwaresolutions.com/beta/CheckNet.zip

Basically you create a batch file that runs CheckNet, then starts PWB. Similar to the following.

REM Run CheckNet
CheckNet.exe
REM Start PWB but do not wait for PWB to finish
START PWB.exe
REM Exit the batch file, it would exit after the last line anyway.
EXIT

To make it even more streamlined, I am in the process of adding options to CheckNet that will allow you to run PWB after CheckNet in order to eliminate the batch file.

--Scott

[Scott]

I added a command line option to CheckNet to launch another application, please see the read me for more information.

http://www.teamsoftwaresolutions.com/beta/CheckNet.zip

--Scott

[jkowal5]

I downloaded the Checknet.exe but I don't know where to put it. I am pretty inexperienced with this kind of thing. Do I install it, or type something in somewhere?
Also, have you heard of anyone having a problem with PWB randomly crashing and going to a blue screen (not BSOD) - just a blue background with no icons and you have to restart the computer to get going again.

[Scott]

To use CheckNet, copy the CheckNet EXE to any folder you wish, this could be the PWB folder for example. You then need to start CheckNet in the same way you are starting PWB, and then have CheckNet start PWB.

It sounds like you are running PWB as the Windows shell. If this is the case you will need to change the shell from PWB to CheckNet and have CheckNet start PWB. I would need to know how you set PWB as the shell to assist you in setting CheckNet as the shell.

If PWB has a problem and crashes and you are running PWB as the shell, then you will end up with just the background, which in Windows is normally blue.

Does PWB seem to carsh in a predictable way?
Are you running PWB with the Address bar hidden?

--Scott

[jkowal5]

I have a shortcut to PWB in the Windows startup folder so that it starts when Windows starts up. Is this where I'd put the Checknet program as well?
As for the PWB crashing problem, we are running it as the shell, but the address bar is not hidden. It seems to crash randomly; I haven't seen a pattern yet. And yes, our desktop background is the plain blue. I'll try to keep track of what is happening before PWB crashes. It is usually happening on our Children's Internet computers, where the kids are mostly playing Runescape - if that helps at all. They also use AIM a lot, which we have running as an application from the Shellbar.

[Scott]

You would replace the PWB shortcut with a shortcut to CheckNet. And add the path to PWB from the Target line of the PWB shortcut to the end of the target line of Check net.

For example:

Target line of PWB shortcut:
C:\Program Files\PWB\PWB.exe /INI=C:\Program Files\PWB\Child.INI

Target line of CheckNet shortcut(all on one line):
C:\Program File\PWB\CheckNet.exe C:\Program Files\PWB\PWB.exe /INI=C:\Program Files\PWB\Child.INI

This will run CheckNet, then after CheckNet determines there is Internet Connectivity it will run PWB.

In order not to confuse the topic, you should either start a new topic on PWB crashing, or email us direct at Support@TeamSoftwareSolutions.com. We are currently testing PWB v2.07.3 which fixes an obscure bug that can cause PWB to crash which I would be happy to point you to.

--Scott

[Scott]

The network may not be fully started when PWB is trying to get to the INI file when first logging on to the computer. You can try using either the CheckNet utility available on our Download page to wait for the network to become available before PWB is started, or you can turn off the Windows XP fast logon.

https://www.getdroidtips.com/fast-logon ... indows-10/

--Scott