Installation and Troubleshooting Guide

Installation: Run the install. You might be prompted to keep or overwrite winsock, you can just keep your current file. Your Anti Virus might sound the alarms since Captcha Sniper uses winsock to listen on port 80.

VERY IMPORTANT!!! - Before you launch Captcha Sniper for

the first time in order to get your license request key, be sure to set the following for Vista and Windows 7 users. Simply right click CaptchaSniper, then click properties. Set the compatibility mode to xp and set the privilege level to admin for ALL users as shown in the 2 screens below:

Launch Captcha Sniper and follow the on-screen instructions to obtain your license request key and follow the directions in the emailed reply.

Running Capctha Sniper: After obtaining your license key, launch Captcha Sniper You must run Captcha Sniper as Admin in Windows XP compatibility mode for Vista and Win 7 users (shown above). You might get a message saying that Port 80 is in use. If this happens, this means you have something listening on Port 80. To properly emulate the decaptcha HTTP post, Captcha Sniper must be able to use Port 80. This could be anything such as an web server, skype, teamviewer, apache, IIS or something else. You can still run skype with Captcha Sniper, but you must completely quit Skype and launch Captcha Sniper first, before you restart Skype. To check to see if Apache or another web server is using port 80, you can simply open your web browser and goto http://127.0.0.1. On windows 7 (not sure about the others), to find out whats using port 80, you can start command prompt and run : netstat -o -n -a | findstr 0.0:80 In the last column of the output, you should see a number which is the Process ID of the application using port 80 as shown in the example below:

In this case we would have process id 43444.

You can then start Task Manager (be sure to enable viewing the process id in Task Manager. Just select view from the top menus>select columns and tick the PID as in the example shown below.

Then go back to task manager and see what process is using port 80 and stop it. When you dont find the process which is using port 80 it means that it is a service which is using it and simply switch from the processes tab to the services tab and identify it. Just follow the example shown below:

Please note that Captcha Sniper adds entries to your HOSTS file (windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts). First, it creates a back up of your hosts file in the same directory as hosts.bak. This file performs the mapping of decaptcher.com to your local machine. When Captcha Sniper closes properly, your original hosts file is restored so that you can use decaptcher again wihtout problems. Also make sure that your hosts file is not marked as read-only.

Now that Captcha Sniper is up and running properly, all you need to do is select the platforms/footprints you are working with in the left panel. This is simply a mapping to select captchas in the right panel. Whats selected in the right panel is ultimately what is used. The captchas in the right panel must be checked (and not just selected) to be available for solving. Once you have captchas selected in the right panel, you are set. Note that selecting the parent Node (ex Articles) does nothing at this point, you need to select the nodes underneath the parent node. See the example below:

Now that captchas have been selected, just run your other software and be sure to use decaptcher.com. You can enter anything into the username and password fields for decaptcher (for Scrapebox make sure you have ticked Enable automatic captcha solving from the Captcha dropdown menu. You can also check your balance and it should always show $7.77 (this was tested and verified with Scrapebox and Article Marketing Robot). See the examples below:

As your other software finds captchas it will send them to Captcha Sniper. You will see them appear in Captcha Sniper and should see the answer which Captcha Sniper has solved. You can test the captchas in the right panel by double clicking them. You should see all of the correct answers to the captchas provided with the program.

If not, you might have to delete the following 2 keys from your registry. Run regedit and look for these 2 keys and delete them:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment\PATH HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment\TESSDATAPREFIX

To run Captcha Sniper from the command line, simply navigate to the Captcha Sniper directory and type: captchasniper.exe <path to captcha file> <captcha type>. The Captcha Type is shown in the right panel next to each captcha. Example: captchasniper.exe c:\downloads\capctha.gif 14. As soon as Captcha Sniper has solved the capctha, the answer will be available in the file answer.txt in the Captcha Sniper directory.

Troubleshooting Case 1 IIS service issue In some cases one of the services which is using port 80 can be the IIS service and you might get an error as the example shown below:

Next thing you would do is run : netstat -o -n -a | findstr 0.0:80 from command prompt and this might show up:

As you can see the process id in this case will be 4. Next thing you will need to do is run the task manager and identify the process:

This service can not be stopped by simply using the End Process command. Simply start command prompt and run the command: net stop w3svc

For further reference on stopping the IIS service please follow the links below:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732317%28WS.10%29.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/9582 6e7a-bac4-4e1f-bcb6-c52d49c9d7f4.mspx?mfr=true

Case 2 Captcha Test is giving bad results In this case the first thing you may need to do is to run regedit and look for the following keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment\PATH HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment\TESSDATAPREFIX

In case these exist, you must delete both! Run the test again and if it still gives bad results then it means you would have to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package. For (x86) - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8328 For (x64) - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13523

Case 3 Invalid license This happens most of the time because users dont read the guide and run Captcha Sniper before setting it to run as admin for all users. It is very important to be set to run as admin before running it the first time In this case you will have to delete the license file (but not before you saved it somewhere else) and make the proper settings to the CaptchaSniper.exe file. right click > properties > compatibility > change settings for all users > tick run in win xp (sp3) and tick run as admin (follow the exact example mentioned at the beginning of this install guide) Now start CaptchaSniper.exe and follow the steps one more time for getting the activation code. When done copy the saved license file into your Captcha Sniper folder and thats it ;)

For support and further questions, please email us at: support@captchasniper.com Our team will respond to your request within within 24 hours (usually much less time).