I use eMule to download music, movies, novels, etc. I think I tried someother peer-to-peer but didn’t quite figure out how to use it, so I quit.

I download eMule on my Vista from HELL and when it came to the port configuration something was blocking it, either my personal Norton firewall or my new router.

Again, even managing the new Norton is quite hectic, I tried many configuration and still no eMule communication and I configured my ports on my router but still it didn’t solve the problem

I momentarily switched off my personal firewall to make sure if it is a firewall problem only or router, still the problem persisted so I assumed it is from the router

Each router has a different naming, mine was to configure my machine in the DMZ zone and open the ports in a different section. In my old router, all I had to do was under port forwarding, anyway the communication part was solved

When running the program it gives you several errors regarding creating a secure identity, folders, etc. as an anxious user skip skip skip

I searched what I needed in eMule and when clicking on the file to download it doesn’t!!! Checking the logs, eMule couldn’t create the necessary files to download what I need.

The thing is, two folders are created in the programs folder, temp: for temporary parts of your download selection and download: for when all the parts are finished to put together and place in that folder

In Vista when creating a folder under programs, all the confirmation popups come to live, are you sure??? So it was a permission control problem, eMule by Vista isn’t allowed to create anything, so I shifted the files under my documents assuming that would solve the problem, it didn’t!!! I searched in Vista for something to configure eMule as a trusted application, to have admin privilages but couldn’t find it, so my only source is to Google the thing …. but now I have errands to run so this battle with continue another time …

Someone tell me a good thing about Vista, it is driving me crazy!!!!

Update:

OK placing your IP in the DMZ doesn’t need for you to open ports, apparently all incoming to that zone is allowed, you don’t have to specify the ports. That is my router’s configuration.

Update 2:

I tried moving the folders around under My Documents, but then a linking problem occurred. So I had to eventually configure something that may appear to others as insecure, so what xp didn’t have it and I never had a problem, I disabled the account control, no more run as administrator …

Control Panel -> User Account -> Turn User Account Control on or off -> uncheck the UAC box

You’ll have to restart after this. Now you can install the application and it can create and write whatever it wants without bothering you