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Thanks, I'm installing it just now. I'll see if it works tomorrow, I'm too tired to do anything else tonight. Thanks for all the help

hmm, ok thanks. I'll go look for flashget. Hopefully that'll fix the problem.

edit: Oh, so it's 768 kilobits? I always thought it was kilobytes, and was thinking "why the hell are my downloads going at 90-ish kb/s then?!" heh. Thanks for clearing that up. hmm... well making a new connection (i.e. went into the Network Connections in Control Panel and made a new one which overwrote my old one) didn't help. So I'm guessing it must be due to timeout like XtremeMaC said. How do I disable/fix this timeout problem? That, or I could just get a download manager... What would you suggest?

I'm on 725k broadband, or something round about the 700k mark anyway. If only it would download at 700kb/s Well, I'll try making a new connection, and the only download manager I use is the one you get with Mozilla, which I have no idea if it give you logs and stuff. Does it? Or is it just a window showing you all your downloads to save space on the taskbar? *shrug* Anyway, I'll post back what happens once I make a new connection.

For quite a while now my downloads have been freezing on me, and originally I thought it was just a problem with Mozilla, but it also happens to me in Firefox and Internet Explorer. I can download really small files, like pictures and midis, but whenever I try to download a movie trailer or an mp3 or something like that, it'll always freeze, mostly after about 3-5 megabytes have been downloaded, but sometimes it's less and sometimes more. Can anyone offer me any help? I don't want to have to format >.< I'm running Windows XP SP1. I'd have SP2 but yeah, downloads freezing *cries* Thanks for any help.

I'll try that. I'm using a C-Media card (X Wave 7000) and I've got my drivers for it from Windows Update, but I'll check to make sure I've got the lastest ones

I've got a really annoying problem going on just now. Every time I start up my computer, half the time my sound doesn't work through my speakers. It DOES work through my headset thingy, but the sound quality on that isn't all that good what with it being a single earpeice and besides, it came with SOCOM Navy Seals for the PS2, so I don't think it's really designed for listening to music with. Restarting seems to do the trick, but that's annoying in itself, and besides this shouldn't be happening in the first place. My speakers are pretty old, had them since 1998 or thereabouts. But they're still pretty decent for non-5.1 sound, but I've been thinking of buying news ones, since my sound card supports 5.1 channels, although 5.1 speakers are pretty hard to find under the £50 mark sadly. Any help would be appreciated.

I did a clean install. I'm gonna try what you suggested LiquidSage, I'll edit the post with the results. EDIT: That seems to have done the trick :-D Thank you very much.

I just upgraded to XP from Win98, and now when I try to watch a dvd, the sound stutters horribly. I've already tried installing the latest drivers for my sound and video card. The sound was fine in Windows 98, but PowerDVD and Windows Media Player (which I tried to see if it was just PowerDVD that experience the stutters. I've also already made sure all my IDE Controllers use DMA when available in the Device Manager after seeing that suggested in another thread. Could anyone offer any help? Thanks.

Ok, thanks for the advice

Hiya. I'm currently running Windows 98SE, but I'm thinking it's about time I upgraded to XP. I've had installed before, but I must have gotten the Blaster worm or something, it kept giving me the "Your computer will shut down in 1 minute" dialogue, and I got fed up with it so just formatted and popped Win 98 back on. But anyway, I use all the antivirus and firewall stuff now, so that should be far less of an issue now (hopefully. My Windows XP knowledge is very lacking) So I was looking at this site browsing through threads and I've noticed all these things about tweaking etc, and multiple partitions on varied hard drives. So what would I be looking to do if I were to upgrade? I know about disabling Windows Messenger, and msconfig and all that from over at FileSharingTalk. My current plan is to put in an old 3gb hard drive I've got lying around somewhere, and install XP onto that. Then hook up my 40gb hard drive as the slave and format that into NTFS or whatever it is XP uses. But after that what would you recommend I do? Sorry if I'm being a pest, but any help would be greatly appreciated Thank you.