I know how to use a firewall. I am using Zone Alarm's free firewall right now. I tried shutting down Zone Alarm's Firewall and adding limewire to windows firewall. It still doesn't work. I basically had only windows firewall running for a firewall and added it to the firewall list and it still won't connect. I also added limewire while running zone alarm. And I checked allow every time it asked me if I wanted to allow something. Limewire just doesn't seem to ever connect. Every time I try to search for something the program tells me that limewire is still connecting. I tried uninstalling, then reinstalling the program more than once still nothing. Never mind it suddenly started to work. I don't know why but it works now.