> Hi Roman, and thank you again for your great utility!!!
>
> I've just noticed that the autoupdate feature of clrmame was not working anymore
> (it used to be fine in the past).
> After some investigation I discovered that my Outlook Express was set on "work
> offline"; after unchecking the work offline option in OE, CLRMAME updated
> perfectly to the last release.
>
> My question is: would it be possible to make CLRMAME update, without being
> influenced by OE or IE settings?


erm....IE/OE shouldn't influence that in any way. Guess an "offline" status in OE/IE causes a complete offline status under windows.

ClrMamePro only opens a http connection to clrmame.com/version and reads that file. IIRC it's a systemcall which starts an http connection...maybe the system interfears there somehow. I doubt I can have any influence on that.
Another issue is ztnet. Usually if you try to update cmpro directly after I've uploaded the new files and altered clrmame.com/version, you won't be able to update since ztnet's cache still holds the old version file...after 15 minutes it usually works.

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro