diff --git a/extras/menus/arkMenu/include/network.h b/extras/menus/arkMenu/include/network.h
index 49882ba95..00c9e0ed9 100644
--- a/extras/menus/arkMenu/include/network.h
+++ b/extras/menus/arkMenu/include/network.h
@@ -36,6 +36,6 @@ extern int initializeNetwork(void);
 extern int connect_to_apctl(void);
 extern int shutdownNetwork();
 extern char* resolveHostAddress(char*);
-extern int wget(char* url, char* saveAs, SceULong64* cur_download, SceULong64* max_download);
+extern int wget(char* url, char* saveAs, SceULong64* cur_download=NULL, SceULong64* max_download=NULL);
 
 #endif
diff --git a/extras/menus/arkMenu/src/net_mgr.cpp b/extras/menus/arkMenu/src/net_mgr.cpp
index 9af58e7c5..c37a17800 100644
--- a/extras/menus/arkMenu/src/net_mgr.cpp
+++ b/extras/menus/arkMenu/src/net_mgr.cpp
@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ static void checkUpdates(){
     u32 update_ver, version;
     bool do_update = false;
     char buf[128];
+    cur_download = max_download = 0;
 
     if (common::getPspModel() == PSP_GO){
         update_folder[0] = update_eboot[0] = 'e';
@@ -255,7 +256,7 @@ static void checkUpdates(){
 
             addMessage("Downloading psp-updatelist.txt");
 
-            wget((char*)path.c_str(), "psp-updatelist.txt", &cur_download, &max_download);
+            wget((char*)path.c_str(), "psp-updatelist.txt");
 
             updater_url = parsePspUpdateList(&update_ver);
 
diff --git a/extras/menus/arkMenu/src/network.cpp b/extras/menus/arkMenu/src/network.cpp
index 40f1cf4c6..0136b55cc 100644
--- a/extras/menus/arkMenu/src/network.cpp
+++ b/extras/menus/arkMenu/src/network.cpp
@@ -159,13 +159,13 @@ int wget(char* url, char* saveAs, SceULong64* cur_download, SceULong64* max_down
 	if((cnx=sceHttpCreateConnectionWithURL(tpl, url, 0))<0)return cnx;
 	if((req=sceHttpCreateRequestWithURL(cnx, PSP_HTTP_METHOD_GET, url, 0))<0)return req;
 	if((ret=sceHttpSendRequest(req, 0, 0))<0)return ret;
-    *cur_download = 0;
-    sceHttpGetContentLength(req, max_download);
+    if (cur_download) *cur_download = 0;
+    if (max_download) sceHttpGetContentLength(req, max_download);
 	if(saveAs){
 		SceUID fd=sceIoOpen(saveAs, PSP_O_WRONLY | PSP_O_CREAT, 0777);
 		while((ret=sceHttpReadData(req,buf,sizeof(buf)))>0){
 			sceIoWrite(fd,buf,ret);
-            *cur_download += ret;
+            if (cur_download) *cur_download += ret;
 		}
 		ret=sceIoClose(fd);
 	}else{//store in ram
diff --git a/extras/menus/xMenu/src/menu.cpp b/extras/menus/xMenu/src/menu.cpp
index 9a1deff5e..ff4f35728 100644
--- a/extras/menus/xMenu/src/menu.cpp
+++ b/extras/menus/xMenu/src/menu.cpp
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ void Menu::run(){
 	version << " DEBUG";
 	#endif
 
-    version << " (Memory Stick Speedup: " << (se_config->msspeed)? "on)" : "off)";
+    version << " (Memory Stick Speedup: " << (se_config->msspeed)? "Enabled)" : "Disabled)";
 
     ark_version = version.str();