While I am here, I thought I'd let you guys know about Windows XP's SP2. In order to stop WORM fast proliferation, they messed with the SP2 upgrade to limit to so many full connections at one time.. Anyways, what it means is that some peer to peer programs are affected. Or you might have real slow speed build ups vs faster ones.. I am not too technical on this particular subject, but all I know is s WORM used to be able to get out and infect at 10 or 20 times the rate it can now with the XP SP2.
Here is a modification. It might he3lp some of you who have speed problems, I don't know. it should help in more standard P2P programs.
It messes with your registry. 1st thing - save the old one. start/run, type in "regedit" (no quotes), and 1st thing save it to a file (Name and location of said saved registry you give). If you mess up the registry, the core of the operating system, it could be bad. Hopefully not messed up enough to not be able to boot and restore the old registry. Though I have not had a problem ever messing with it.
Here is the program to run. XP gave me a warning when it was going to change some values, I said to go ahead. Computer still works. It is called the LVlord mod. It'll do it all for you, just save the registry as-is before you run it.