sberlin, ok, I deleted all the stuff inside that file and started limewire and that box came up that said limewire couldn't start...just like you said. As for changes in my compter, I can't recall all that I did between when it worked and when it didn't work. One thing I DO think I did was uninstall the primary and secondary IDE channel drivers because they were stuck on PIO mode only and I had to uninstall them to get them back to DMA mode...other than that, I don't think I did anything major if anything at all....what's next? thanks