I have no simple answers. There's no need to stop the auto connect on startup in order to reconnect from the menu bar. What type of net connection do you have? You may have just suffered a temporary drop out from connection. It can happen. Can you give more details about your Firewall & how you use LW with it. Without more info, one of the others on the forum might be able to give you some suggestions. All I could think of would be to delete your download & incomplete lists & start again from scratch. Depending on your net connection, you may have too many files attempting to connect. Cleaning out 'might' solve the issue.