Thanks again for your advice Birdy.

Ive just tried all of those suggestions and it still gives me the same message ' an older version of Limewire is running please exit and retry'

This is so frustrating as I know there is no version of Limewire on this computer. I did not transfer any data from my old computer as I havent got around to that yet, but still the same message every time.

Any other suggestions would be gratefully recieved

regards

jay27