I have been trying to connect with winmx for over 3 hours now with no results, I am using the 3.53 version and have had no problems with it before today. I am not a computer whiz so I don't know what you are talking about when you make reference to IE7 and wouldn't know where to find it if I had it. I make a primary connection because I have a DSL connection and am sharing almost 5,000 files. I checked my firewall and it hasn't changed any that I can see, is there anything that you can suggest for me to do, I want to try and keep my 3.53 because from what I have read here most users have better luck with it. Thanks, Gary