why cant i no longer browse and chat to any host, or people uploading from me i click browse and it says 0 on every host i tried what options could be preventing this i used to be able to do this like 3 months ago but now i cant

Which version LW are you running?
Do you see a brick wall icon at bottom left of LW's interface?

There was a number of versions chat was disabled accidentally during recoding the program but it's since been fixed.
Normally if you browse host & it shows zero then they or you don't have spare upload/download bandwidth or slots. That's happened to me then 15 mins later it's showed they had many hundreds of files.

4.12.11, also their is no brick wall when i click chat nothing happens no error messanges or nothing

This is for a mac osx user, but same principles apply: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/genera...-question.html
Keep in mind, there's probably a lot of people out there who not only have chat disabled, but who are running those versions of LW where chat didn't work. Browse principles are very much the same. Also, if you see they have the chat icon displayed, they are much much easier to browse. In my experience, those who are uploading from you can ONLY be browsed if they have the chat icon.