1,102,554 Community Members  Skype issue with Windows XP  Member
Avatar Light Poster 41 posts since Jun 2011 Reputation Points: 0
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much frustration and wasted time I have discovered an issue with
Skype running on Windows XP.  Windows XP puts a limit on the
half opened outgoing connections allowed at one time. When this
limit has been reached (10) all outgoing connections are
blocked. Why? Well it seems at the time, Microsoft thought this
would be an effective way to control worms / viruses from having
lots of outgoing connections?!? The problem is, as soon as
outgoing connections start getting blocked, a lot of software
applications start to worry. The issue we were having was with a
Postgres database server. The PC could not even connect to a
database engine running on itself, due to the fact that the
client was attempting to establish an outgoing connection.  Is
there a way to check how many half opened connections you have?
Sure! Open the Comm