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Will get back to you on this one. Some where I have a print out with the info on it. When I find it I'll post the link it was taken from. Will catch you all later, Blue

bluewhaleCA, Yeah, MS automatically takes 20% or the bandwidth it actually tells you that if you double click Limit bandwidth reserve and then click on the Explain tab but to save you going there this is what it says, "Determines the percentage of connection bandwidth that the system can...

Go into Control Panel and open up your Internet Options. Under the Connections Tab make sure Never Dial a Connection is selected. This should stop any program trying to connect to the net. There is one draw back to this. If you are used to opening Outlook Express or Internet Explorer and...

Alphaphi, I had this happen to me a few months back. Suddenly my Laptop would open up search whenever I clicked on the C drive. It was quite bizarre and I eventually resorted to wiping the computer. This was also a spontaneous change. If I remember rightly I was ok when I used it in the...

The only problem with disabling the QoS is that Windows will then automatically take the 20% of the bandwidth. It's a strange way of doing things. I would have presumed that disabling it would give you 100% of your available bandwidth but then that's Microsoft for you. Blue

There are two things that may be affecting your downloads. One is XP itself. Although this shouldn't greatly affect your download speed as a default XP is hogging 20% of your bandwidth. You need to do to Start and Run then type in gpedit.msc. Once the box opens up under Computer...

I had a similar problem when I added a broadband service to my laptop and also had a similar problem with a friend who added a virtual private network (vpn) connection. It seems that Windows XP doesn't like more than one means of connecting to the internet. When I deleted all the connections...

I know the dialogue box that you are talking about. It normally comes up when you are downloading exe files. The check box is blocked because if it wasn't you could inadvertently download and run a file that contains a virus. The way that it is set up means that you can only save the file and...