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| Connection Problems Problems getting the LimeWire or WireShare program connecting to the Gnutella network.
(not about connecting to files, that is a Download/Upload Problems section issue.) Please supply system details as described in the forum rules.
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October 25th, 2005
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 Unable to "initialize and start" A few months ago i downloaded limewire and it came up and everything, i just couldn't connect. Now, I figured i'd try it again and maybe something had changed. It hasn't. This time, I cna't even get Limewire to start. When i click on the i con i get a message that says "LimeWire was unable to initialize and start. This is usually due to a firewall program blocking LimeWire's access tot he internet or loopback connections on the local machine. Please allow limewire access to the internet and restart LimeWire." I have tried fixing everything i could find online, making new connections and acceptions and such with my firewall. I have no idea what to do now... any help would be amazing. I also have a dumb question. How do i "restart" LimeWire? Thanks  |
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October 25th, 2005
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| Try deleting your LW Preferences folder whilst LW is closed; instructions here: Fixes for Limewire BTW you can't connect because you're firewalled. Either your computer firewall or a modem/router firewall most likely the cause. Did you configure your firewall so it allows LW full access (advisable not to have 2 active firewalls b/c they can interfere with each other); Firewall configuration instructions (click on link) Can you give us a total desciption of your set up: 1. OS version? (eg: Windows 98) 2. What firewalls you have? 3. How much ram? 4. Hard Disk space available? 5. Connection type? (eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.) 6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers? 7. Where are you trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.)? 8. What version of Limewire (LW) & Java do you have? (Go to LW's menu Help>About LW...) Will show both LW & Java version. 9. Who is your isp provider (Internet Service Provider)? 10. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up. 11. Do this simple test for us. Using your browser go here: http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ The page should say 'Your test worked!'. What happens when you go there?
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October 25th, 2005
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| I did all of the firewall stuff with the link.... and the test at the bottom worked 1. Microsoft Windows XP 2. As far as i know i only have Norton Antivirus and the Internet Security etc. 3. 2.79 GHz, 512 MB 4. 11.8 GB 5. dsl 6. Linksys Wireless-G 2.4GHz 7. home 8. 4.9.33 9. idk -- i don't really know what that is... sorry i'm computer stupid 10. i have 2 other computers that are also dsl? is that what you meant? 11. my test worked |
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October 25th, 2005
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| I suspect Norton is your problem. Linksys use UPnP so should work fine in most cases (if there's a UPnP switch on your modem-router [Universal Plug & Play] then turn it on.) For a start, go to the control panel, double click on Windoze Firewall, check the disable box. You don't need this active!!! Then, *Configuring Norton Internet Security & I believe this should fix up your problems. Fingers crossed!  
__________________ Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein 640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein "A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa "Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa "The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson The shy can light the dull dark room with life when their eyes mirror their inner sunrise - LOTR |
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