I think I had a conflict between two types of privicy programes,Should I be running more than one tool at once ?

What programs are you trying to run? What are your system stats?

I don't think you really need to have two port blockers running at the same time, just like running two firewalls, you are asking for trouble.

But yeah , what are the programs ?

Thanks for replying, the two programs I had running were, peer guardian, and port monster , I wasn't aware that PG2 was a port blocker as such or I wouldn't have run the two together. I guess I still Have Alot to learn about this kind of thing. thanks lots to both of you !