dear phex, i looked at your reply and yes that SP2 was affecting me, i raised the limit and disabled both windows and norton firewalls, however nothing has changed for me, i also have Windows Defender, is this affecting me? im beginging to feel that Phex isnt what its said to be...if you have any more ideas please do not hesitate to offer them, if you provide an email address i can send a screenshot of the problem or any other screenshots, if they help.
thanks for any help
Kam