Thanks for the information, I'm sure a lot of people will find that very helpful. One question thought, McAfee can free with my computer.....no that I've uninstalled it how would I go about getting it back and jsut uninstalling the privacy policy?

I guess it might be different for different people, but here's what I did:

I went to http://us.mcafee.com/root/login.asp; after entering my username/password, I had the downloads that I was entitled to available for download. Whenever you bought Mcafee, you probably created an online account (for updates, etc.); you would use that account.

In my case, I have three items listed. I chose the anti-virus option. Actually, it doesn't matter which one you choose to download; when you run the downloaded program, you have a chance to pick any of the items you have paid for; you can check or not. I have left the Privacy Policy OUT.

I hope this helps.

note: I have an account with Comcast, as my ISP, and so I get Mcafee free of charge. All I had to do was create an account with my comcast.net account and voilá. Anyhow, I mention this because it may be different from "paying users", etc.

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I tried uninstallin the privacy thing o whatever and limewire still dosnt connect and takes my internet, how can i reinstall the security back on to my comp?

I just wanted to say that the Uninstall of McAfee worked for me! I had a brand new Toshiba Satellite notebook that came with Windows Vista Premium installed and Frostwire wouldn't work at all for me with the same symptoms (blocking / locking down / hijacking the Internet connection). Removing McAfee removes the problem!

I put the fix on my Vista Review site so hopefully we can help others.

Also - to anyone that reads this, I'm trying to log a list of software that no longer works in Windows Vista on my forum, so if you know of any other P2P related file sharing software (or any kind of software) that doesn't work in Windows Vista since you upgraded - please let us know!!

Thanks! The more info we collect, the more people we can help get their software working again - or help decide whether or not to make the crazy jump by upgrading to Vista!