Help me please - I just can't figure this one!

[hoffy]

Ok, ever since I installed SP2 on my machine, shareaza almost stopped D/L!
I was used to a 60-100 KB/sec rate and now it won't go any higher than 10!
I have the newest shareaza (2.1) and I also patched my system's TCPIP.SYS file and so I don't get any more of these "too many tcpip" (4226) events.
I'm downloading 10-12 files with LOTS of sources and it's on for days continuously.
What can I do??
Should i try a different program? I really like shareaza.
Any thoughts?
Thanx.

[eivioolla]

Uninstall SP2.

[ROMANTICGUY50]

Uninstall SP2.

I agree with him. I hate SP2. It was automaticly downloaded. No one ever told me about the driver updates etc. HP was no help They told me cause it was so new I should have waited. SP2 crashed my system so I had to do a Total System Recovery. I got no connectivity and HP just said stay with SP1 for the time.They gave me a website to go to fot the updates but didnt totally know which one to put in. They said it was Microsofts problem and I called them and they told me to go back to HP. So screw both of them. I will stay with XP SP1 that offers no connectivity limitations. When I went to uninstall SP2 I still had problems and Microsoft told me to do a clean restore to get SP2 totally out of my computer.By this i mean total recocvery U lost one thousaned songs cause of SP2 It is garbage.

[black_magiic]

You should have avoided SP2 in the first place . I havent installed it and im glad I havent, I have heard nothing but bad things. Stick to SP1 if you want to keep downloading stuff.

[Malicious Intent]

Your best bet would be to check the Sharaza forums. Im sure they will have SP2 well covered.

[ferrarimodena360]

aight all over again
sp2 puts a half open connection limit, you can get past that limit of if u apply that patch and set it upto 1000 or so http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads

reboot and shareaza will work fine

cheers
stick with sp2, its good

[seraph]

SP2 is basically just a security update for windows XP. So if you have a decent Firewall and Antivirus program installed e.g Norton, McAfee etc. there's no need to install SP2. Whats the point in patching a patch? Sounds kinda pathetic!