Aaron, I tried both of those processes, and I didn't see anything even resembling BearShare in either spot. Would that be a bad thing or a good thing?

Rowsdower, I am going to try your program next. Thank you both for all of your help!

P.S. Are you an MST3K fan?...

Yes, I sure am! To enhance the reference, I just added Rowsdower's handsome face as my avatar.

That means BearShare wasn't starting with Windows and expiring before you could use BearStart.

You need to take control of your own computer. Somebody has illegally stolen
your right to set your own clock and you need to take it back.

Which version of XP do you have?

What the crap? I just bought this laptop like 2 weeks ago! I haven't lent it to anyone... my C drive wipes itself clean every time my computer shuts off, that way I won't get viruses, so I save things to the D drive. Called the "Deep Freeze" I believe. Anything else weird about this computer? Hmm...

I have Windows XP Media Edition.

YEAH!! I love Rowsdower. "Oh no, I don't go map-finding-behinding..."

Try going into Control Panel, run Administrative Tools and then run Services.
Look for the Windows Time service, open it, hit the Stop button and then set
it's startup type to Disabled. Can you set the time now?

No, it still says I don't have the proper privilege. Do I need to restart my computer?

That version of Windows must have been heavily crippled to prevent all
possibility of people actually exercising their Fair Use rights. I wouldn't be
surprised if the standard policy editing software was left out too.

Try the last 5.1 version of BearShare instead. 5.1.0.28 should work.

I use Limewire now anyway, switched a long time ago.

i downloaded the old version of Bear share and its still downling those files is ther anything in the prefrences where i can download MP3's?

"those files" ?