Spit .... there is a log for the XP firewall ... I don't remember where now since that was one of the 1st things I trashed when I started using XP.

In theory it is supposed to check the incoming against the outgoing requests. But I came to find out although it looks good in black and white ..... it's a piece of crap.

Tguyus what you say makes sense. Mean if it's checking for connections a zillion times while your rendering that's using allot of it's capabilities. I will have to try that next time. Thanks for the idea