radar loop does not loop anymore

I guess I gotta start detailing every little change I make, and testing every little capability after making a change.

Noticed today that radar and visible loops are no longer looping. Seems like I made some changes yesterday to java and vbscript permissions, so I went in and eased up all the settings, way beyond what is comfortable, and stil no loopity loop. Must of been something else but do not know what at this point. I did do some searches and read through hundreds of irrelevant hits, to no avail.

Anybody care to save me some time and tell me what the secret is?

Windows help/support and Windows update have also gone south (independant of this loopless problem), but I guess that is a post in another category...

 

Thanks Arie;

Tried that, and a whole mess of other things (rebooting does not even have an effect...), but the problem is still hanging around. However, I did find two, and only two weather sites that WOULD loop, with no changes - one was the NWS, and the other one, which is completely baffling to me, is intellicast, but a different "view" from the other views that still do NOT loop for me on intellicast. I really don't understand that, seems like if looping does not work on a site, it should not work for any panels/views, instead of just for one view that does work (maybe more, will try a few more views on intellicast...). And, I did send an email to the NWS site asking what java vm setup they were using to see if it is somehow different from the others (fat chance of getting a response from a gov site tho...).

Anyway, I am still trying to piece the puzzle together. One site that I went to (was urged to go to as a test), a site that displays the time with a changing display, also croaked, indicating that I had a browser/java error, but was not explicit, yet did infer in an explanation that listed possible reasons, that I might have a corrupted java vm.

So, since I have been considering replacing my existing java vm with IBM's (faster, more stable, than MS or Sun according to IBM), I might just go that route to eliminate the corrupted java VM possibility...

Oh wow, something just occurred to me. I did a defrag recently, and best guess is that this looping problem started shortly after that, but until now I never made the connection, if there is one. And, seems like every time I do a defrag, something like this pops up (prior time I lost some system dlls, what a riot...).

Anyway, back to the "So ". So, since I am gonna try a new java vm, any input on that. Is IBM's better? Faster? WHat about Sun, same questions. Maybe I should post that in another category....

 

ALL:

Update> I finally got around to looking into the suspicious results on the intellicast site, with the provided "Tampa" loop working OK, yet the "Miami" loop does NOT work anymore.

And, discovered that on intellicast, the pulldown menu under "radar" has selections for "loop" and "Java loop" (that must be new, never noticed it before...). Long story short, the "Java Loop" works, plain old "loop" (which is what I had already set up in favorites that stopped working...) does NOT work.

So, based on that, if it is indeed accurate, it would appear that it is NOT my JVM that is the problem. My lingering quandary then is to question if it is not a "java loop" then what IS driving the loop. Anyone have an idea on that? I would send an email to the site, but have never had any luck getting back any kind of response from a weather site....

EDIT. Well, consider this the "post back with resolution ". Altho it is a work-around and not actually fixing whatever the real problem was, I have decided (meaning "finally realized "...) that all I have to do is go with the "java loop" options and forget about whatever the other loop was that became problematic... End of problem hopefully, but there is always Murphy's Law about ignoring a problem gopher in one gopher hole and that little gopher will eventually pop up out of another gopher hole - or was it Confucious that said that...?