Aha! I searched the web and found the culprit.... MacAfee Privacy Service! Removed it and works like a charm.... without any other problems, expect my money at the end of the trial period.
Having a problem. Downloaded the multiplicity trial onto two XP computers. Set up one as secondary and opened both programs and the recommended port on MacAfee firewall. Fine. Set up my primary and during install it wanted me to restart, so I did. Restarted and everything was fine for a minute or so then it froze up. No keyboard or mouse action. So, I reset and went into safe mode, removed Multiplicity on the primary and rebooted. Everything was back to normal. Ok, must have been a
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