For the older Lottery Updater, it is most likely being blocked by your firewall program built into Windows XP. It automatically blocks any program you run unless you specifically give it permission to access the Internet. To do that, click on START | CONTROL PANEL | SECURITY CENTER. Then at the bottom of the security page, you will see "Manage Security Settings for." Click on WINDOWS FIREWALL, then on Exceptions, and you should see SLHFTP.EXE without a checkmark in the box next to it. Put a checkmark there, click APPLY, and the program should then work.
HOWEVER, if you have a second firewall like Norton Internet Security or Macafee Firewall or Zonealarm (these are the most popular ones), you will have to do the equivalent task in the second firewall you have.
A simple alternative is to just download the individual files you want. It only takes a few seconds for each file. To do so, go to our SLH Files. If you intend to do this regularly, when you get the site up, right click on the page and choose CREATE SHORTCUT so it will make a shortcut on your desktop to this page.
On this page, all of the files are grouped by state. Just right click on a file you want to download and choose from the popup menu, "Save Target as." Then when the save dialog box appears, in the NAMED field, click in front of the file name and type C:\GH\ in front of the name and then click SAVE. You should see a warning that the file exists (which means you are saving in the correct location). You only need to do this for the FIRST file you download. For additional files, just right click, choose Save Target As, and click Save.
