Pop-up web page when launching Synpase client

It shouldn't happen like that.
There's a helper application that loads this page ... but this helper app only loads once a day not everytime you start Synapse.
Make sure "browser.exe" is running and is not blocked.
It loads the wrong page because the browser.exe was written a while ago ... for the previous bulletin board.

"browser.exe" was written several years ago and no change since. I use Windows 7 and only see the page when browser first starts up.

And using the task monitor, how many instances of browser.exe run?

So, you're saying browser.exe is running, then launch synapse client, and this website pops up again?

Try this.

1. Open the task manager
2. Start Synapse
3. Highlight the browser.exe
4. Quit Synapse - and confirm that browser.exe is still running
5. Start Synapse
6. Check to see if the browser.exe is still highlighted
   1. If it is, then a new browser.exe has not started up.
   2. If it isn't then a new browser.exe has started up, and brought up the forum page

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What about removing the function of browser.exe opening the forums just for the sake of it anyways.

So, this means that Synapse is starting up a new instance of the browser.exe each time it starts. It will only do that if browser does not respond to a request. I wonder if you have blocked browser.exe from running as a server ( it's an xmlrpc server ) on port 9000? Or, if you have another service running on port 9000.

Try running

Code:

browser.exe debug

from the command line and see if it starts to listen or not.

so it is serving .... odd. The only way it should shut down is if another instance of browser.exe starts up ...

On this PC I have 3 cheyenne.exe running.
but only 1 browser.exe.

Geez, cheyenne should not run more than once.

I remember now. Look at the Cheyenne processes. You will see one larger than the others. The largest is the main server. The others are slave processes so that it can multiprocess, Which is why I use Cheyenne .. to offload tasks at times.