On Apr 15, 2005, at 8:27 pm, Michael Elliott wrote: > ...I"m trying to tell my brother in law how to open ports on his XP > machine so I can use iChat AV to his AIM 5.5 setup on his XP machine, > but I ... can't find a tutorial on the 'net somewhere--with pictures > for example--to tell him where to put the port numbers. You didn't look very hard. http://its.ndsu.nodak.edu/desktop/windows/open_port.shtml http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/wxpmdfrw.html http://www.lan-aces.com/open_ports.htm http://ict.cas.psu.edu/Training/HowTo/ENComputers/xpsp2openfirewall.htm http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/2005.html Stroller