try looking at this post and see if doing what the post says solves your problem

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/host-c...tml#post293970

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nope. didn't work.

i think the problem is occuring before it gets to the stage of reading the connect file.

pic of main screen attached. also noticed that it takes a lot longer to load than before, as if it's timing out somewhere.

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Well this is really, really odd. I've been busy for the last week studying for an MCDST exam. Decided to run Bearshare today, and... it's working!!!!

I haven't changed anything in the options. All I've done is install some unrelated software, e.g. Speech Recognition - nothing that needs to connect to the internet. Windows firewall is active.

Well, I wish I could tell everyone what happened to fix this so that if someone else had the problem it would help, but I don't have a clue.

Must be another Microsoft feature