First, go to LW's menu bar, Tools>Options>Downloads & make sure Maximum download slots is set to a number larger than zero. Depends on your speed as to how many you set it to. (Keep in mind that p2p (peer to peer) is about sharing from one person to another so I hope you have upload slots, etc. set to higher than zero.) If that doesn't fix it then see below.

hmm try the following tips Fixes for Limewire.

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