I have a desktop, Windows XP, and it had limewire 4.8 and later 4.9 and it worked fine. Then, a little over a month ago limewire started malfunctioning. Every time I try to open limewire, it shows the opening screen and says,

"LimeWire was unable to initialize and start. This is usually due to a firewall program blocking LimeWire's access to the internet or loopback connections on the local machine. Please allow LimeWire access to the internet and restart LimeWire."

I tried the jar link and the c://documentsandsettings/use_name/.limewire advice, allowed limewire through my firewall and grutella yet nothing has worked it is like it is not even trying to connect. You seem to have a high success rate in solving problems yet I have not found the solution to this particular problem among the threads.


1. OS version?
Windows XP
2. What firewalls you have?
Windows Firewall (standard with XP)
3. Connection type?
Broadband-DSL
4. Modem & router brand name & model numbers?
DSL Router WindRiver WE8TELL Model# C90-610030-06
5. Where are you trying to connect from?
Home
6. What version of Limewire (LW) & Java do you have?
Limewire 4.10.00, Java 1.0 (I think)
7. Who is your isp provider (Internet Service Provider)?
BellSouth using Explorer
8. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up.
NO
9. Other info
Limewire was fully functional until our internet suffered a strange hiccough where we could not go online using Bellsouth. My husband reverted back to our old AOL service with which we had previously had no problems with limewire while using but this time was different. The above message appeared. We continued to use AOL until resetting all internet options to default which allowed us back online through Bellsouth. We have Bellsouth as our primary access to the internet. Most of the settings have been set back to the way they were before the glitch and it seems only limewire remains offline.