I got it working now, the setting was on like windows xp in properties, which I have but it didn't work with that setting for some reason... I considered switching it's compatability to windows 95 last week but didn't because I thought it should be working for XP cause that's what worked before and what I've been using.
anyway, today I tried it with windows 95 compatablity and it's working.
thanks for the suggestions though.