I purchased one of the $39.00 upgrades that MS did back when Windows 8 first came out and never got around to installing it until about a month ago. I did an upgrade installation to Windows 8 from Windows 7. (yes, I know, need to do a clean install, but I have a lot of stuff on there setup that I cannot remember how or the settings to go back through a clean install and get everything set back up again...thus the dirty upgrade).
Since I have installed Windows 8 I can no longer connect to my Lucas Arts Star Wars Battlefront 2 server I have running on this pc, nor can I connect to my webcam server WebcamXP anymore. Both of these programs run and seem to work fine in Windows 8, but now I just cannot connect to them. If I load up Battlefront on any of my other desktop computers on my LAN and scan for LAN servers nothing shows up. When I try to connect to my Webcam server from the internet it just times out and never connects. I have check the firewall settings and do not see anything, I have even completely disabled and turned off the Windows firewall and still no good. Nothing has changed on my network except upgrading this pc to Windows 8.
So, does Windows 8 have something else in it that might be blocking connection to these programs? I'm at a loss.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Since I have installed Windows 8 I can no longer connect to my Lucas Arts Star Wars Battlefront 2 server I have running on this pc, nor can I connect to my webcam server WebcamXP anymore. Both of these programs run and seem to work fine in Windows 8, but now I just cannot connect to them. If I load up Battlefront on any of my other desktop computers on my LAN and scan for LAN servers nothing shows up. When I try to connect to my Webcam server from the internet it just times out and never connects. I have check the firewall settings and do not see anything, I have even completely disabled and turned off the Windows firewall and still no good. Nothing has changed on my network except upgrading this pc to Windows 8.
So, does Windows 8 have something else in it that might be blocking connection to these programs? I'm at a loss.
Any suggestions appreciated.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8