Cryptrol Thanks for the clarification as I did wonder why there was the BTE and BCN. I have downloaded that file off of sourceforge which I know is a trustworthy site. What bothers me is why this mega sync was 1.6 gbs and took hours to download. I have run the bytcoind.exe and then run simple wallet but after I entered the password and pressed enter it disappeared, so I ran it again and didn't press enter so it is just sitting there. Not sure what I am to do with that file? The bitcoind.exe has stopped synchronising at 687 days. Not sure what to do there now either? should I just start again?