If you are referring to my various problems, it's not a matter of high CPU or RAM usage being the problem. Rarely do either application use more than say 15% (by Task Manager's display) with total CPU usage mostly in the 1-5% range. And Process Manager and Task Manager both show a total memory load of less than 25% physical RAM and less than 5% of the Page File.

By my observation CPU and RAM have little or nothing to do with my experience. I certainly won't accuse F/Lwire of being poorly programmed as I think they are two fine applications. It is very likely that I have something which is causing a serious conflict. I don't think it's a problem with XP really either. I have had the same results on both an nlited version of XP and with a fresh standard install.

Both LimeWire and FrostWire eat pretty much all of my bandwidth no matter how little of it they are actually using. My little but accurate example was even if L/Fwire were only actually using 50 Kb they both insist on hogging all 4-500 Kb available. This is even with upload limits set at around 40Kb.

I have re-installed XP again (I do a lot of beta testing so XP never gets very old on my machine) and will try them again along with your suggestion. I just find it strange that older versions exhibit no bad behavior, nor does the newest LimeWire beta. But I have nothing but trouble with the current 'stable' releases of LimeWire Pro and FrostWire.

Thanks again for the responses here