Please don't forget to effectively close LimeWire COMPLETELY when it asks you to restart.
Just closing the window will not exit LimeWire in the default configuration, but will reduce it to the System Tray: you must then find that "Green Lime" icon, click on it and select "Exit" from its popup menu.
If you lauch Limewire when it is already running in the SystemTray, Limewire will not be restarted, but instead the existing instance running in the system tray will reopne its window, in its existing language.
If you can't find that icon in the system tray, may be your Windows Explorer has crashed sometime, and lost the link to the system tray icon to display it. In that case, CLOSE YOUR Windows SESSION (this will terminate LimeWire running in the background), and relogon with your local user account.
Limewire does not store anything in the registry for the language setting (the only things are inserted by the Windows installer in order ot allow integration with the Windows installer, or separately added by the installer of Java: Limewire does not install or uninstall Java itself, but may provide an access to another installer for Java; Java can, and should, be installed and uninstalled separately from LimeWire).
The Limewire language setting is stored (as well as all other user settings) in the small text file named "limewire.props", located in the subfolder ".limewire" of your local user home directory, or on Macintosh in your "Preferences" folder:
if you have changed the default language, the language code is in a line like:
LANGUAGE=de
for example, that specifies the language as German (German language code for Java is "de"). In absence of that line, LimeWire starts preferably in the language of your local installation (or Limewire will display default English, if you local language currently has no translated resources available)
One other reason why you may not be able to save your settings is that your user home directory is not writable. This should not happen on normal desktop/workstation PC, but it may happen if your user account is stored in a network directory, with local policies (in that case you'll need to contact your local network administrator to solve the problem for your user home directory).
Note: on Windows, the user home directory where the ".limewire" folder is created by LimeWire is NOT the "My documents" folder, it is one folder ABOVE it, and normally contains that folder. If you open the "My documents" icon, and go to the "parent" directory, you'll get to the Desktop (the contents of your desktop is stored partly in a "Desktop" subdirectory of your home directory).
So to go to your user home directory on Windows, open the explorer and open drive "C:", then "Documents and Settings", then open the directory corresponding to your local user name.
This is the "user home" directory that contains:
- several hidden system files that contain your Windows user profile: "ntuser.dat", "ntuser.dat.LOG", "ntuser.ini": don't delete them unless you really want to delete your Windows user account completely!!!
- a hidden system folder named "Local Settings": don't delete it, as it contains various registry data that allows your windows user account to work correctly when you login. It contains several special hidden system files or other subdirectories used as caches for applications like Adobe Acrobat Reader, the Windows GDI fonts cache, plus the hidden system directory "Temporary Internet Files" subdirectory used by Internet Explorer to store its cache of visited pages, and the "History" (possibly translated "Historique") subdirectory that stores small shortcut files to you recently visited pages on the web with Internet Explorer, plus a hidden system directory "Application Data" used by ActiveX controls on the web to store application-specific user data, and a hidden system subdirectory "Identities" that contains several identities used by Outlook Express (each identity has a anonymous numeric directory and contains your mailbox data for each identity profile). Finally, it also normally contains the "Temp" subdirectory used to store temporary files created by various applications.
- a hidden system directory named "Application Data" that contains various settings used by Windows applications. Don't delete it unless you want to restart all these applications with their default settings (some applications may even refuse to start without those user settings).
- a hidden system directory named "UserData" used by .Net applications to store your user settings in those applications.
- a hidden system directory named "Cookies" (possibly translated "Favoris" or other, depending on your version of Windows) that contains small files and a registry of all cookies accepted by Internet Explorer.
- a system directory named "Favorites" (possibly translated "Favoris" or other, depending on your version of Windows) that contains shortcut files corresponding to your "favorite links" in Internet Explorer.
- a system directory named "Start Menu" (possibly translated "Menu Démarrer" or other, depending on your version of Windows) that contains customized shortcuts to installed applications only available to you, and not other users of your Windows system.
- a system directory named "Desktop" (possibly translated "Bureau" or other, depending on your version of Windows) that contains the extra private/unshared elements on your desktop
- a system directory named "My Documents" which is identical to the folder you see when you open the "My documents" folder with the icon on your desktop or from the Start menu.
- additional directories created by you or other applications, that don't show on your desktop or in "My Documents" but are associated to your user profile.
- the ".limewire" directory created by LimeWire where it saves your user preferences.
Additionally, this "user home" directory is the default one used as the current directory when you start a command (or "cmd") window, with the "DOS" prompt line. If you input "DIR" and press Enter, you'll see the non hidden directories above, including ".limewire", just below the two special entries for "." and ".." directories.
Last edited by verdyp; September 16th, 2005 at 06:48 PM.
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