Hi guys, thanks to all for their input.

Still not sure I know exactly what the hostslist.txt file does. You'll have to forgive a grey haired old wrinkly not being quite up to the mark on some things!

After I installed the other day I didn't have that file on my system even after using xolox a couple of times. From the replies I get the impression I have is that it's a cache type file but what starts it off and does xolox use it to improve connecting?

I've downloaded a couple of versions, including moaks (which I have placed in the xolox directory) and see there are differences between them based I suppose on the individual user.

The latter postings are a bit above me I'm afraid but do raise the question as to whether it's ok to be running say xolox,gnucleus bearshare and perhaps Limewire on the same PC and if there are any issues in doing so.

Is it possible to run one or more of them together?

Final question, does the score figure on the search screen indicate the number of matching files and is best to go for a higher score number to get a better chance of resume?

Thanks