Thanks for your help. I followed your instructions on deleting the registry keys. First uninstalled java (which locked up my machine during the uninstall). Uninstalled again which was successful. Uninstalled limewire also. I then reinstalled java. Then before reinstalling limewire I went to the java app in the control panel and ran that program. I get a blank window, which is the same thing that happens during the lime wire installation where it gets stuck at the language selection screen. Same size window. I would suggest that limewire uses java at this point. When I try to close the blank java window it locks up my machine… Seems to be a java issue to me… Oh, and yesterday to try to see if it made any difference I installed the latest NVIDIA driver… Didn’t change anything.