can someone please help me....

[houseMpls]

I've been using winmx for a few years now, always running win98se....I have finally formatted and installed WinXp professional edition. After installing the newest version of winmx...i cant seem to get barely any results doing searches. I am running zone alarm but its setup fine....my settings are all the same as they were with 98se...same everything...has anyone else noticed this...any advice? thanks.
(like i do a search for something by "the cure" and it takes about 20 minutes to find 1 song.....1 freakin' song!!!)

[DigitalJunkie]

If you installed WinXP with SP2 on it, SP2 has Windows Firewall turn on by default! SP2 will also limit your internet simultaneous connections with a lot bad servers at same time, it onle restricted number of connections for a period of time but it could slow down your searches a bit!

[houseMpls]

so are you saying that service pack 2 is the problem? is it wise to uninstall service pack 2 for the purpose of downloading. is there any other settings i should know about...? thanks again.

[DigitalJunkie]

No, if you like some of the new features on SP2 use it. There are utilities, that could help you speed up your download & look for more sources often automatically! I've not use WinMX for a while, go to WinMX forum for their utilities available.

[Alberte]

In winmx are you trying to connect as a primary or a secondary?

Also if you are running zone alarm you can disable the icf firewall in winxp if it is enabled

See:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=283673

for info on how to enable and disable the firewall. As digitaljunkie stated you need to check that.

[houseMpls]

i am connected as primary....i have the windows xp firewall disable and zone alarm is set ok for winmx. still no luck. any ideas on what the settings in winmx should be set to? thanks...

[hawkburn]

Change your connection to secondary. Uses less bandwidth, alot less CPU, and should get you better search results.

[ferrarimodena360]

disable windows xp firewall, and remove ZAP, try again

[Vampmon]

No need to remove ZoneAlarm, and no need to diable Windows Firewall, simply give access to WinMX with both your Windows firewall and your ZoneAlarm.

(Allow access with XP SP2 and above)

[MoonMan]

It seems obvious to me that DigitalJunkie is right on target and that SP2's limiting of connections is the problem.

Here (http://www.ozzu.com/ftopic31179.html) is a link that may be of some use. The author entails a method used to "patch" the system and in effect, remove the connection limitation. Please be aware that using any such patch is at your own risk.

[Alberte]

A couple of ideas

1. You can check the following link which gives info about how to use the event viewer to look into the possible sp2 connection issue/whether you are getting errors due to this behavior.

http://www.tech-recipes.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=328


2. connect as secondary. This will help in situations such as if, indeed, there is a problem with sp2 and connection handling.
Primary connections handle all the network overhead, passing search and browsing requests for other users, taking connections from secondaries to handle their needs and so on.
If you don't have significant upload bandwidth and if you aren't interested in performing this function for the network, you should connect as secondary. I think many people are connecting as primaries because they think it speeds up their own activities, transfers etc. This is not what it does and it is not the purpose of primaries.


3. If you have adjusted the allocated bandwidth setting in the winmx peer network section of winmx configuration, especially if you have significantly reduced bandwidth allocated, tweak it.


4. It sounds as if you used zone alarm under windows 98 as well and had no problems. If you didn't then I would try disabling the true vector service that loads on boot. There are numerous complaints about zonealarm not being able to handle the large number of connections that p2p applications frequently require.

Let us know what results you get from #1. I am very curious about this issue.