Help with Ares Chat Server
 

Greetings Gnutella Forums. I need some advice on Ares Chat Server.
I downloaded Ares 2.2.4.3048, the lastest version apparently, and almost immediately I was having issues with Ares not finding any Chat rooms. I then uninstalled and installed it again to see if it was just a small bug, and it was. The problem is that when I host my own channel, the name that shows up was the one I used before hand, and whenever I try to change it on the Host Chatroom, the name won't change on the Ares Chat tab, ergo essenctially blocking out anyone from using my room.
Can anyone give me some advice? :o

My suggestion would be to look at the Ares settings file, most likely found in your AppData folder which can be found by bringing up Run or for Win 7 the Start menu search box or Win 8 the search function and search %appdata% and you will find the Areas settings folder. Check through each of those documents. Open with WordPad so it formats reasonably.

Then find a line in the settings file that refers to chat room or chat or server, ie: search those terms through the document including your name you refer to. Chances are you will find the line that matters, delete that line in the document and save with same file extension as it already has using the all files type. Option is either delete that line or change the name Ares chatroom is stuck on. I'm not sure which would be best.

Earlier in the year I tried out a program with Ares in the name but doubt it was the same program. I vaguely remember there was something that annoyed me about that program such as auto-connecting to things after startup despite being removed from startup items. I may have uninstalled it, can't remember.
OH .. now I remember, it was called AresMod or similar. It appeared to be european based (francais I think.)

Thanks a lot for the reply. :D

I did what you recommended, and I found the settings. However, it didn't help whatsoever.. :/
What I did do was *cough* ragequit and uninstalled everything Ares related, and personally went to delete any leftover files that didn't get deleted.
Afterwards, I installed it yet again, and now my Chat Server just won't show up at all! D:
Obviously, when I choose on the option "Join Room" on the Chat Server, it takes me to my room, but it does not show up on the list of rooms available.
Do you have any insight as to why that is?

Unfortunately I do not know enough about Ares to answer your question, sorry. :o I have never tried the program personally. I suspect the aresmod I tried might be a little different, not sure but was not interested at the time in the chat options it had. And I have uninstalled it since.

I would have imagined a setting 'somewhere' would have incorporated the chat rooms/servers you are registered at or that are enabled. If the setting is not stored in appdata then there might be a chance it's within the program folder. Though programs these days would not normally do that. If it's a server, then perhaps the setting is stored somewhere within the system's settings. It would be pure testing to enable some and disable others to see how it is listed in your settings file(s).

Has your problem worked ever?

There's no option to right-click the room and choose activate or somewhere in the program's menu options?