yes i downloaded it, and what i just saw happen and realized, is that the ultra peers (2 of them that connect automaticaly) disconnect, and tries to establish 2 other ones, and than keeps doing that till a message pops up, and than says "bearshare has encountered a problem and has to close" and when it searches a file, the percent meter, starts at 0% and around 10% done search, it pauses, i dont know why, it pauses and than starts searching again, it does that till it reaches 100%. and i checked every program, to allow everything to do with bearshare and still i have this problem., i cant install limewire either. i figured maybe its just bearshare, but when i installed limewire after uninstalling bearshare, it wouldnt even open, some thing about connection? i dont know. i didnt try to download any other software to download files from, but i really need some advice on if its my connection or is it the program. or what ? and ive downloaded 3 things on here the beta version that was a link on here, and also, the start up for the beta, and something called bearshare daig. or w/e none of them worked, well the program works for like 5-8 minutes and closes. i had that trouble before i just reinstalled it and it worked again, but i've uninstaled it too many times, and nothing, just opens for a few minutes and closes down. its giving me head aches (honestly) and i dont know waht else to say about whats happening. oh maybe it could be windows xp sp2, maybe i have to reinstall windows? thats an idea, but i dont have the disc anymore. and i know this is bearshare's place to talk about bearshare, but how does www.torents.com work? i know p2p, but what do i have to install? i really need something that will work, and download files from, and if not bearshare what else can i download to do this? cause seems like no one knows and its really frustrating and im fed up with looking for whats wrong with any downloading file program.