Termyn8or
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I am a bit perplexed at the behavior of this program. Of course there are experts here, but nobody can know every program, so I am just fishing. What makes this strange is for one I have found that this program is portable, I am running it straight from the EXE file on the old drive. The strange part is that it seems to have learned a few new tricks. Can a small program like that adapt itself to a better PC WITHOUT being reinstalled ?
The program is Bearshare lite 5.2.5, and it served me well on the old 433Mhz. I was pleasantly surprised when I simply double clicked the EXE and it ran. However now it seems to only connect intermittently. It seems like if it isn't getting anything it disconnects and the indicator goes red. I have noticed that if I start a new search or force start a file download it will connect, but it takes a minute sometimes, sometimes more.
Also now, with the window minimized, there is an immovable indicator always on top, the connection status indicator with a bandwidth usage meter. I never had that before. Mind you this program is running off the old drive and has not been updated.
I have played with all the settings, like the firewall and so forth, and it seems not to affect how well Bearshare can connect. The only other possibility with firewalls is if I have a hardware firewall. The papers that came with the router mentioned it, but this I don't see as being a prime suspect. If it is blocked, how can it connect at all ? And it went through the same router on the last PC.
So now the indicator is showing a good connection, but then, even if it is not connected when you go to close it it wants you to minimize to "help the network". Something like that. How could it do that if it is not connected ? And then sometimes it doesn't even ask, you close it and it minimizes to the tray.
So does a program actually "sprout new wings" so to speak when run though a highly superior processor ? Were all these features or whatever there before but it decided to turn them off because the piece of crap couldn't handle it ?
A bit perplexing, but I find it interesting for sure. Now I expect this from the OS, even though it is the exact same OS except for the addition of SP2, I expect it to be able to do more on a newer system. But from this puny little program ? Perhaps I should be impressed.
Any pointers, or even opinions are appreciated at this point because I am in the customization stage. I am getting two more SATA drives and cloning the boot drive which is a WD, and disconnecting it thus making it a backup, now that everything seems to work. I will also clone my old IDE drive to the other and get it out of there, because until then I can't have my CD burner and DVD drive at the same time. At that point I go into the file associations and also build my own sendto menu. No sense in doing that until the drive situation is stable.
One thing is really nice right now though. This thing responds like a lightening bolt. I only got seven tray icons and no matter what I do it pops up before I expect it. I cannot complain about the speed, and since I am using mostly older software, it is even faster. I mean Office 97, AOL 7, the browser that came with XP back in 2001. Man you hit it and it is up before you can get your finger off the button. Other programs that took maybe 10 seconds to start now take notime at all.
But like I said I am just about to the customization stage, so whatever ideas you might have, throw them out there.
T
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Any P2P experts here ? (or computer) this is strange - 
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