Cache....cheers for your reply...ive already done all that...it just puzzles me as to why its only just happened, everything was fine a few days ago.

I think what i might do is complete whats downloading/seeding now and then uninstall and do a clean reinstall.. see if it makes any difference.

Thanks again

Karen

fingers crossed we beat chelsea today

Hi

can anyone help out....what it is is that just lately (last couple of days) all the files im recieving and seeding all have yellow smilies (NAT error) Im pretty certain that my router is ok and it will have something to do with Kaspersky anti hacker but i cant figure out how to open a port and allow it though the anti hacker.

Anyone got any ideas

Cheers
karen

:lol:  :lol:  :lol:  Yeah...well y'know what us scousers are like.....why pay for stuff if there's free stuff available!!!

karen

Here's a list of free software some may find useful......I got this off another forum quite some time ago...so hopefully all the links are still ok

3D Graphics:

Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/

Anti-Virus:

AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/ (now not so free, apparently!!!)
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html

Audio Players:

Winamp - http://www.winamp.com
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Audio Tools:

CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/
Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
EAC - www.exactaudiocopy.de

CD/DVD Burning:

CDBurnerXP - http://w1.878.telia.com/~u87812405/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr

Compression / Decompression

7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/
UltimateZIP - http://www.ultimatezip.com/
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/

Defrag Software:

DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

Download managers:

Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
Net Transport - http://lycos26486.l78.lycos.com.cn/default.htm

Encryption and data security:

Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm

File Managers:

Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

File repair and recovery:

PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Firewalls:

Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Sygate (FREE for personal use) - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conte...reeDownload.jsp
Bartware Personal Firewall - http://www.bart-ware.net/fw2/
Outpost Firewall - http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/

FTP Clients:

EFTP - http://www.eftp.org/
WinSCP - http://winscp.sourceforge.net/
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/
Filezilla! - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla

FTP Servers:

GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/d...pplication=8334
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd

HTML Editors:

Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/

Image viewers:

Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe

Instant Messenger:

Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Miranda32 - http://www.miranda-im.org/
PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/
Trillian - http://www.trillian.cc

Internet Explorer Front-Ends

MyIE2 - http://www.myie2.com
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/

Mail programs:

Pegasus - http://www.pmail.com/
Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
Sylpheed claws - http://claws-w32.sourceforge.net/
Geminisoft Pimmy - http://www.geminisoft.com/

Network Tools:

PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org

Office Suite:

Open Office - http://www.openoffice.org/
602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/

Partition Managers:

Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/

PDF Makers:

Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/

Photo manipulation and image design:

The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Sodiodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/
Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/

Programming:

Python - http://www.python.org/
Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/
Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/

Pop-up Blockers:

NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/
System Information and monitoring:
AIDA32 - http://www.aida32.hu/
Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/

Spyware Removal

Adaware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.2 - http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download
Opt Out - http://grc.com/optout.htm

Video players:

Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=82303
BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org
MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/
FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

Video tools:

xviD - http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org
DVD Shrink - http://www.dvdshrink.org
Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Web browsers:

Firebird - http://texturizer.net/firebird/index.html
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
Opera - http://www.opera.com


and one i'll add is what i think is the best media player out there

vlc media player

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

and a site i visit for free stuff

http://www.freesoftware4all.co.uk/

karen

Essexboy....cheers for that ....you're right about it being much faster :lol:

karen