Don't know if it'd apply to anyone else but it's worked for me 3 times now with XoloX 1.12. Something goes awry with the hostslist.txt (nothing I can notice by looking at it) and XoloX freezes pretty bad on startup though I see plenty of activity through ZoneAlarm. I've let it run for half an hour like this and can never use the window (or too much of anything else under Win98SE comfortably).

Move hostslist.txt out the way! Get rid of it basically. Then it starts up just fine and figures out for itself some hosts to connect to. (from an internal starting list of caches/hostcatchers?)

Any, it's worked for me, maybe it'll help some other frustrated user. I like the ease of use and multidownload feature of XoloX and hope a new version a little more free of bugs is on its way!

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