I have XP and I use pirch for chat, since I loaded XP my mp3 files play as the dos names, not full names, eg AIR_SU~1.MP3 rather than air_supply---Im_all_out_of_love.mp3 can someone help me?

I don't mean to sound flip, but you should probably post this in the Windows XP forum as you apparently have Windows XP and not DOS. Windows XP is not DOS, does not contain DOS, and doesn't run on top of DOS. With a few exceptions I won't go into, DOS (for ix86 systems, anyway) is a 16-bit, single tasking operating system designed to run in real mode. Windows XP, by contrast, is a 32-bit, multitasking operating system that runs in protected mode. These are two completely different operating systems that have nothing in common as far as the code base and architecture are concerned. More importantly as far your post is concerned, the way Windows XP and DOS handles file specs are different.

Having just installed a commercial product,go to the makers of it with problems like that. This forum is for people with a bigger brain than there wallet \\\|||/// (@@) ASHLEY4.