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  1. 7th July 2010, 09:44 AM #16
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    The app itself (I wrote it a few years back!) simply uses the Winsock control to send the packets. Guess winsock is not supported in W7 as it must be mangling the packets in some way (as they're being sent, just not waking up the target PCs)
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    Quote Originally Posted by GoldenWonder View Post
    The app itself (I wrote it a few years back!) simply uses the Winsock control to send the packets. Guess winsock is not supported in W7 as it must be mangling the packets in some way (as they're being sent, just not waking up the target PCs)
    Did you find a solution to this issue?

    We have the same problem.

    Thanks - Andrew
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