i will be following up your last reply forthwith and thanx for the help..

yeah, i had allready read Leeware's offering but it really bared little relevence however this one held valuable information that should really be added to the relevent areas in the options menu, it would save you from having to deal with so many stupid questions again and again

for instance the section for seting the number of simultaneous downloads, this is apparently a completely ambiguous question and it was the same in other versions, lol, why don't they just change the wording of this line to make it easily understandable, anyway i've followed the advice and saw no change in performance anyway thanx again and i shall now soldier on and let you know how i get on..

Jim

ps you can get some sleep now if you like