I hope someone here can help me because Im starting to confuse myself reading all the posts on connection problems. I have done everything, deleting the preferences folder, etc...... This all started yesterday morning. I have had an excellent connection up until yesterday morning. Now it just says connecting the whole time. I woke up that morning and noticed my computer was off, well the power must have flickered that night because I had to reset my clocks. I start my computer and I have LimeWire set to automatically come on. I checked the songs and movies I had been downloading before I went to bed. Well, I never could connect! I have done everything to fix this. I didnt do anything different to my firewall before this happened. When I first downloaded LimeWire I went through the steps to allow it with my firewall. I have just windows firewall that came with sp2. My internet provider is direcpc (direcway) Thanks for any advice or help you can give.

Have you tried shutting down the comp. and restarting it. Also your modem. This has a tendency to reset things.

Sudden power outages have a tendency to play havoc with WindowsXP. It is possible you may have lost or corrupted the data.

Try configuring your firewall again to allow LimeWire access.

Just a thought

I have restarted my computer and modem a few times since that happened but this time I went in to my firewall exceptions, deleted limewire from the list and then added it back. This time it showed LimeWire 4.8.1 where before it was just LimeWire I guess that had something to do with it. Now Im back at an excellent connection