Awesome feedback Tyson. I think the extra step you took that I did not do previously was using Tuneup Utilities 2014 to clean up the Registry. Way to go man! Looks like you found the key parts to getting other people's wallets running that are in the same situation. Thanks for following up!

Thank you so much for your support Bit_Happy. Very much appreciated and excited we have some people in this community that understand the viability of a digital currency, it's wallets & technology is so much more important than voting on exchanges! Good grief.

Okay guys, I finally got my wallet to work after hours (& a couple days) of tinkering and working through some issues.

Currently my laptop still will not load the wallet but freezes and eventually says, "Not Responding." Luckily I had my miner to work with and another Desktop. The wallet is currently working on my Miner in my basement just fine.

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Some random steps that I took that any of them could have been part of the solution:
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1. I turned off the real-time protection from Windows Microsoft Security Essentials. I then closed and restarted that program. (after it was fixed, this was turned back on)
2. I deleted every file I could find that was downloaded from the wallet.
3. I reinstalled the wallet (did this 3 - 4 times) and one thing that may seem silly I made sure my .conf file was not being recognized by Notepad and was just a white icon instead.
4. I copied the .conf file into my Roaming / Users directory which will you find in your Readme file. For those of you that might have a hard time finding it, unhide you hidden directories in your user subdirectory so that you can find it by using properties and unhide.
5. I then went to my folder where the EDUcoin-qt file was and right clicked, ran as administrator.
6. After a few moments it started downloading blocks, I let it finish until the wallet was good to go.
7. It was at this point that I copied my encrypted wallet.dat file and renamed it to wallet.dat and renamed the one in there as default_wallet.dat. When I backup my wallets I always use the name of the coin plus the date of the backup. For instance EDUcoin-Wallet-3-31-14.dat then you rename it wallet.dat. It had to take awhile to rescan the encrypted file and now I have all my EDU coin back.

If you are having wallet issues please send me a private message here or @ reply me on Twitter @webaddict. I'm willing to do what I can to help you, I don't think you'll find much help around here but we'll get that changed, I can promise you that!

For those of you hopelessly obsessed with exchanges, please give this some thought and quit thinking the end goal or the current goal is getting on these places. The first and most important goals is defining rules, uses, associations, organizations, marketing this coin to students, teachers, schools, financial aid representatives, scholarship websites, community education programs, elementary faculty, high school faculty & counselors, University counselors, School related websites, Directories and large companies that are doing business in EDU. Build the real business and the exchanges will come. If you're looking to sell this now you don't understand the potential of establishing EDU as a medium for students around the world to interact with every learning institution, training facility & websites around the world.

Let's work together at this point instead of driving voting on exchanges for brainstorming the first points of attack that can be the most influential and monumental to this industry.

I'd like to see sites like Lynda.com accepting EDU coin for people to get online training and education. Then I'd like to see other novel uses but lets start coming up with ideas to spread this coin around the intertubes instead of worrying about a silly exchange until we have at least 10 - 20 roots (adopters) down in the ground. Find and create believers, fund them with EDU coin, develop point of sale, blockchains & novel apps to use EDU coin.

Where's our EDU Scholarship Faucets?
Where's our EDU learning games to earn EDU coin?

Sincerely your brother in EDUcoin arms,
webaddict
@webaddict on Twitter

P.S. I believe in 3 coins in the market - Bitcoin, POTcoin & EDUcoin. These coins all have their place, niches and power. I can assure you this coin has so much potential that some of you that look at it as a fly by night better take this seriously, much more to come!

I am so disappointed to see no one responding to the last 4 other requests in this thread to help them get their wallets going. Are you all that busy or too self centered to care about helping your community. You have people that are trying to be apart of this growing and potentially amazing addition to the education industry and you shoot them in the foot by leaving them in silence.

I was one of the very first adopters to this coin and I have had the same issues with my wallet. I've tried opening the old wallet that worked perfectly fine on my laptop and it completely locks up after loading index and goes blank. I redownloaded the wallet to my miner rig and it's loading up but just not syncing. I've moved my .conf file to the roaming folder and nothing is still working.

If you seriously can't take two minutes to help people if you have the knowledge to do so, it shows the community is weak and will not last when you have to train "noobs" to come on and be apart of this revolution. Lets get someone to answer these wallet issues, I know there have been more than just the 4 issues in this thread.

Hey Qwiner,

I really wanted to thank you for giving a good analysis on BTC-arbs. I was very close to sending a full BTC and after the Poker comparison, I think I'm just fine keeping by BTC. If you'd like to be tipped in a specific coin, send me a PM and I'd love to send some your way.

^^ This worked for me. Thank you so much Wolf_Pack I was beginning to be a little worried. Glad to have a working wallet, whew! PM me your Hemp Address and I'll tip you.

I haven't used this program yet but I really wanted to thank you for innovating technology like this for the use for everyone. I own a couple Google News sites that I like to cover industry changes on. My stories go directly into Google News, I would be interested in interviewing you sometime about this program and your outlook on the industry. You can find me on Twitter @webaddict. Kudos buddy.