Chris Wilson Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Is it worth me updating my EPC for Toyota Microcat Live? I really need Lexus parts shown, and I don't have a Lexus EPC, only the (massive) Microcat Live 3 DVD installation. Any disadvantages to it, size apart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 I've never even heard of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted October 21, 2011 Author Share Posted October 21, 2011 AFAIK it's the current Toyota front end for all the parts listings. It looks a nightmare to load as it has been hacked to run without a network link to Toyota. It also eats gigabytes of disk space, but I will have a go at loading it. I fear the worst though if I try and load it to a different drive than C: where I have insufficient space. It looks pretty, anyway I want access to all the Lexus stuff otherwise I wouldn't bother. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 I'll have to have a look out for it, where did you get a copy from Chris? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted October 21, 2011 Author Share Posted October 21, 2011 Ebay USA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted October 24, 2011 Author Share Posted October 24, 2011 Loaded fine onto D drive, seems far better than the old EPC. Example screenshot below: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Looks worth a download Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Looks worth a download Would take me forever and a day to download that thing. I'm currently downloading at 6kB/s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted October 24, 2011 Author Share Posted October 24, 2011 (edited) There's a gotcha I have just found, it will only run with the PC date set to November 2008. I was hoping once the prog had been run once it would be happy with me resetting to the real datem but it barfs and says it's out of date.... Can you write a batch file to change the date under XP and somehow add it to a programme's start menu, or even just have it as a desktop icon? They didn't mention this little facet about the application... I have found once it's running you can change to today's date, and it seems happy to switch through the menus. Maybe it will have to stay running in the background, I wonder how much resources it uses? Edited October 24, 2011 by Chris Wilson (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 I'm hitting 50KB/s on my phone with a 2bar signal strength Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 I'm hitting 50KB/s on my phone with a 2bar signal strength F*ck off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 F*ck off Not bad eh? That's using my phone as a wireless hotspot so that I can use my laptop. The signal here is crap too, would be interesting to see what it can really do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny g Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 I'm hitting 50KB/s on my phone with a 2bar signal strength Meh, 6.8Mbit through the Sensation - with a small tweak! (on Three) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Meh, 6.8Mbit through the Sensation - with a small tweak! (on Three) I can't even make a call on the signal strength I have though. Not sure what the max is when the signal is good. The icon that comes up is "H+" if that means anything. I'm on T-Mobile though, I think it's widely accepted that 3 is the fastest available at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny g Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 I can't even make a call on the signal strength I have though. Not sure what the max is when the signal is good. The icon that comes up is "H+" if that means anything. I'm on T-Mobile though, I think it's widely accepted that 3 is the fastest available at the moment. Aye - anyways, back on topic. How about I get a copy and create a VMWare Appliance for this? No messing with time/date then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Chris a batch file to change the date to 2008 is very easy. Simply create a text file, call it 2008.bat and in the text put "Date 01/01/2008" (without the speech marks). Save it, then you can run it and check if your date has changed. Changing it back is a little more difficult as it would need a stored variable in order to pull back the actual time. So changing back to the current date would need to be manual really. A nice easy way to do this would be to create a file called "Current.bat" and put "Date" as the content then save it. When you double click on it a command prompt will come up asking you to input the date you wish to set it to. Job done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted October 24, 2011 Author Share Posted October 24, 2011 Batch files work fine, thanks Scott! There's no gizmo to automagically set the correct date and time on line from a GMT clock or anything is there? Worth the messing though, far better than the EPC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted October 24, 2011 Author Share Posted October 24, 2011 Aye - anyways, back on topic. How about I get a copy and create a VMWare Appliance for this? No messing with time/date then I can see if the DVD's will copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny g Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 I can see if the DVD's will copy. It's already downloading, Mr W And it should be ok to use a "net time \\time.windows.com /set /yes" or something similar to sync the time after use. Leave that with me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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