thinking of useing kazaa lite

[risingson77]

First, make sure that you don't start KaZaA with windows.

Second, you can "un-protect" write protected files.

Third, you can cut off all downloads by shutting down KaZaA (via File -> Exit).

At least, that's what I do.

 

[EliteRacer]

Forget Kazaa.

Shareaza's kinda slow but it turns out better results than Kazaa.

www.shareaza.com

 

[Cobraboy]

Originally posted by milefile
So many uploads going on used up a lot of bandwidth.

Unshare all of your files, that way, nobody can download off of you...

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by Cobraboy
Unshare all of your files, that way, nobody can download off of you...

Heh. Thats what I do. I hardly ever use Kazaa anymore. A few Vice City songs is all I've downloaded lately.

 

[Cobraboy]

I gotta admit, those 80's songs are a bit addictive.

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by Cobraboy
I gotta admit, those 80's songs are a bit addictive.

Yep.

 

[Apclps]

Originally posted by Cobraboy
Unshare all of your files, that way, nobody can download off of you...

Or empty your folder. I sort the files in different folders after downloading so this is hardly any trouble.

 

[milefile]

Occasionally I got a file that I couldn't delete or move. Somebody, above, said you can un-write protect them. How?

 

[epic]

Originally posted by Cobraboy
Unshare all of your files, that way, nobody can download off of you...

now why would you do that? people share files for you to get, why dont you share them also? makes downloading with p2p much faster. greedy bastids.. thats what ruins p2p. i dont mind gettin viruses, but when i search for something and it turns up no sources, that really makes me angry!

 

[epic]

Originally posted by EliteRacer
Forget Kazaa.

Shareaza's kinda slow but it turns out better results than Kazaa.

www.shareaza.com

ehhh... edonkey2000 is by far the best. limits your download speed and limit of downloads according to your upload speed\limit. it also has a million more things than kazaa does. only problem is connecting to a server, or atleast for me it occurs.

 

[Klostrophobic]

DC++ is excellent if you can share ten or more gigs. If you can't, well, then it sucks because it won't let you connect to many servers at all.

 

[milefile]

Can anyone answer my question form before about write protected/locked files and how to un-do that so they can be moved or deleted?

 

[rjensen11]

Sorry MF. What if you uninstall Kazaa? Can you remove them then? Or what if you unshare them?(if they were shared to begin with...)

 

[milefile]

I did uninstall Kazaa and the one file is gone now.

But the files that I couldn't delete I also couldn't move out of my shared folder. There were a couple that mysteriously became un-write-protected after a day or so. But that last one was just stuck there for a couple weeks. I couldn't do anything to it.

 

[risingson77]

Right click on your shared folder. Select "Properties". Find the little check-box on the bottom that says "Read Only". Uncheck it. If the computer asks you if you want to apply the change to all folders and files in that folder, click yes. Otherwise, you'll have to change the "Read Only" files one at a time.

 

[rjensen11]

Originally posted by risingson77
Right click on your shared folder. Select "Properties". Find the little check-box on the bottom that says "Read Only". Uncheck it. If the computer asks you if you want to apply the change to all folders and files in that folder, click yes. Otherwise, you'll have to change the "Read Only" files one at a time.

That wouldn't be it. You can still delete files if they're checked "Read Only" in the properties menu... I had the same problem with a Forrest Gump video I downloaded. I tried to delete it because I didn't want it on my computer any more, but for some odd reason it says that it's in use by some program, but it fails to say WHICH program it is....

 

[risingson77]

I've had that happen before. I don't remember how I fixed it....Safe Mode, perhaps?