yeah, I should have said “longer sleep”…I need to go through the code with a fine toothed comb and see if something I did in the parts of the code that diverge from the upstream Swing wallet is causing this.
in StartupProgressDialog.java grep for “just a little extra” and increase that (by multiplying by 2 for example)
As I wrote The problem (in my installation of zcash4win 1.0.8 was that the file zcash.conf was wrong - the rpcpassword key was wrongly spelled. As a resut zcash-cli.exe could not be called properly.Upon fixing it - the GUI wallet worked.
Who/what creates the file zcash.conf when zcash4win 1.0.8 is installed?
but I don’t think that that is the only issue 
ok, new build with that one character typo fixed has been posted. I’ll be testing it to see if that fixes the startup issue with new installations on a clean system that hasn’t had zcash on it before (this is in the “how did it work at all?” level of debugging, ouch)
File name to download for the binary is the same because MS/WiX version numbers can only be a triplet (X.Y.Z, no further patch-level number), that’s been pushed.
V1.0.8 is working great on Win7! Thanks.
One small problem: I use a vpn to access the net. All the net traffic is tunneled. Z4W hangs up when I tried to send cash (only tried t-adr to z-adr). But it works fine without the vpn.
hm what type of vpn software are you using? I haven’t done testing over vpn’s and this is the first feedback about issues with one I’ve had (no idea if others are using it over different vpn’s or not)
Is it now possible to change the datadir on the last version?
Its a commercial vpn provider, Airvpn, that uses OpenVPN to tunnel to their servers. They use different outbound and inbound ip addresses on their servers. I don’t know if that’s relevant but thought I’d mention it. Sorry I don’t know enough about routing to understand the details of how they set all the pc’s net traffic to route via their server. It blocks all traffic (using Windows Firewall) except what’s routed through their Openvpn tunnel to their server.
sorry not yet, that’s still a bit down the todo list
I don’t know if it’ll work with that kind of setup, I haven’t ever used a vpn with different inbound and outbound IPs like that, let alone with zcash. I hate to have to recommend “try a different vpn provider” (free trial at another one, maybe?) or “turn off vpn to send” (I REALLY hate that suggestion), but those are all I’ve got right now. That’s a pretty non-standard networking setup
BTW, here’s the error message I get when sending zec via the vpn:
general exception: std::bad_alloc
Resolving this is probably understandably down the todo list too 
but I imagine that people who are savvy enough to use shielded blockchain technology would also be more likely to want to use vpn, (especially after the vote this week to revoke the FCC rule protecting privacy). Which begs a question: are Z4W connections to the blockchain servers encrypted? Thanks.
Ya, I think that is non-standard, i.e. better than standard 
I think the point of the different in and out ip is to prevent some kinds of unmasking attacks. All of that is transparent to the user.
zcash4win is running a full node, so IT is a “blockchain server” itself as much as any other node on the network. I’m pretty sure that that asymetric routing your vpn provider uses is messing up its connection to other peers somehow when you’re sending. If you’re really concerned about it privacy, maybe use TOR? zcash4win should work just fine with the setup instructions for zcash on linux, its just a matter of some changes to the zcash.conf file, which on windows is in the %AppData%\Zcash\ directory.
yeah but that’ll break quite a few different p2p technologies, a bitcoin full node probably wouldn’t fare very well on that vpn either, since zcash is a bitcoin fork with nearly identical networking code
OK, thanks for that tip. Its possible to run TOR over Airvpn…though it’ll be a bit slow with 4 hops, but should be ok.
OK, I can try running z4w over another vpn provider. Also I’ll ask if anyone there uses the full bitcoin node.
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yeah using TOR and a vpn at the same time would be hella slow