Thank you! I read the last page of that and got the reply i was looking for, same problem another person had but in a different way... they bought bearflix pro and upgraded like I basically did just to a newer version but free. So i went along and uninstalled bearflix and switched the newest bearshare for the one in op. I guess i'll just stick with it cause its working and that newer skin of bearshare isnt very appealing and the other sets of problems.

And the status colors lights have always been the same since i first started using bearshare. 1st Green, and 4th Yellow always having the TCP i guess partially firewalled but thats never caused any problems. I do remember though reading along time ago about editing the freepeers config settings, but now i dont have to so cheers!

I think some adware came with that bearflix latest version though, so now i gotta find that bugger and get rid of it (darn random pop ups!). Thanks for the help.