Comments on: Sky Anytime on PC causes machine to run very slowly

By: RJ Duncan

RJ Duncan — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:27:21 +0000

Thanks for the link to the uninstaller, it was really helpful.

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:41:09 +0000

Having rfecently got sky plus I was about to look into sky anytime on my lap top but having read comments am now reluctant to try it. I am not a very proficient user of computers and therefor worried about slowing down my laptop and being then unable to uninstall.
I also live in a village which is not very well served by broadband, 2meg at the very best, and wondered if it will take forever to download anything.

Any comments will be gratefully received

By: tony

tony — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:12:56 +0000

Ray deactivate SKYANYTIME then phone sky on 08706094508 you should have an error code from when you tried to open SKYANYTIME if not It is (16 ) they will activate It there end,then re-instal SKYANYTIME It should then work fine,It did for me.

By: ray

ray — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:10:09 +0000

my sky anytime is impossible to get into anyone got the time to write a instruction manual i would be thankful.

By: William

William — Sat, 12 May 2007 10:37:37 +0000

It’s the secrecy and the method of implementation that are annoying. I have no problem with running a file-sharing application if that’s a condition of the service. But, it doesn’t need to run the whole time – that’s just for Sky’s benefit. It’s easy to stop khost from starting with msconfig; you can make it permanent later if you want by removing the registry run entry. Then substitute a simple batch file for the Anytime icon on your desktop, call it Sky.bat or whatever:
net start “kservice”
cd C:\Program Files\Sky\Sky Anytime\
SkyAnytime.exe
net stop “kservice”
That way kservice only runs when you’re browsing the choices and actually downloading from it.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:07:34 +0000

The Channel 4 ’4od’ software does exactly the same, stupid evil programs.