Just so you folks know, Windows 8.1 is not buggy at all, and in fact runs Lottery Post better than any other Windows version out there. This is a classic case of hysteria made up by people who are not technically savvy, and attribute problems caused by installing a million bad software apps to Windows.
If you're having trouble, it is most likely because you installed a bunch of crap on your PC that is mucking up your web browser. Lottery Post has not been changed recently (so I'm not sure what "since the update" means), and is constantly tested on a variety of platforms going all the way down to Windows XP with IE8.
My recommendations:
- DO NOT mess with your registry. DO NOT install any registry cleaners. Those will corrupt your system for the most part.
- DO uninstall programs you do not use, or that you have no idea how they got installed. Open your Windows Control Panel, click on "Uninstall a program" (or whatever the proper terminology is for your version of Windows), and go through the list of installed software, uninstalling all the toolbars, games, and other crap that you have installed and don't use.
- DO go into the Manage add-ons section of Internet Explorer and Disable all the add-ons that you don't use. There will probably be a lot of them under "Toolbars and extensions". The more you can disable, the better.
- DO clear your cache if you are experiencing text editor problems. There are instructions for this in the Help forum.
- DO NOT clear cookies. The ONLY time you need to clear cookies is if you are experiencing a Log In problem, or if you can't get your private message light to go off.
- DO try a different Web browser, such as Google Chrome or Firefox. If the page works in a different Web browser but does not work in Internet Explorer (IE), then the problem is that your Internet Explorer is corrupted -- probably by all the junk you have installed, or maybe because you installed a bunch of Internet security software and it's blocking important stuff that makes the web pages work.
- DO upgrade to Windows 8.1. It makes older computers FASTER and BETTER. Do not listen to people who saying Windows 8.1 is some horrible monstrosity. They don't know what they are talking about. Learn how to use the new Windows, rather than being stuck in an old version that is going to eventually fail and be completely outmoded. If you don't know how to upgrade Windows, look into buying a new computer. These days you can get a good cheap laptop for a few hundred dollars.
- DO run Windows Update every week to see if there are new software updates to install. ALWAYS immediately install all the updates that are available. Be prepared to reboot. If you don't even know what Windows Update is, then your computer is probably in bad shape. GOOGLE IT AND LEARN.
- DO always upgrade Internet Explorer to the latest version that your computer is capable of running. For Windows XP, that is IE 8. For Windows Vista, that is IE 9. For Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, that is IE 11. If you're not sure what version you're running, click the "gear" icon in the upper-right, and click About Internet Explorer. Be sure "Install new versions automatically" is checkmarked, if that option is available in your version of IE.
There are certainly times when Lottery Post is unresponsive for 30 seconds or a minute, or maybe as much as 10 minutes. EVERY website has SOME downtime. It is unavoidable, because at some points the Internet itself has issues, or maybe I have to install some security updates or Website updates.
But these small blips of downtime are not every day, and only for a very short time. I have monitoring software constantly running, so I know exactly when and how long it goes down. The latest statistics are that from Jan. 1, 2014 until today, Lottery Post has been up 99.86% of the time. Much of the downtime in that number (the 0.14% of downtime) has been completely out of my hands -- caused by Internet outages and the like.
I am sure that some people will continue to blame Lottery Post for their problems, no matter how much I describe these things in great detail. But hopefully most of you will use this to understand that the vast majority of problems are right on your own PC, and this information will help to find and eliminate those problems.