Yes, I did mean Windows 7. Thanks. Do you recommend -rescan? or -reindex?
did you try to find if there is some firewall who is annoying you? im telling you that becase i had an similar experecience like you, i mean that it happends to me on my laptop, finally i discover that was my antivir, i just configure it and now this is working, and yes i was running the same antivir from the beginning.