How many fire walls you useing....are you set to allow lime to run through them.... Nyself i only have norton AV and worm running,,,turned windows fire wall of many months ago...but check to make sure once in while windows doesnt try to be the one running my system and turn it back on...as it will first chance yit gets oryou have installed any fixes or patchs from micro..or upgraded your explorer.....

Just an old highway tramp
---Bill---

Starting to see i need to proof read as my miss keying get bad and my spaceing...

Just an old highway tramp
---Bill---

Grandma.....
as an after thought...that file when you tried to delete ...was lime wire open and running.....got to thinking on that ....think i had one file i had to delete form inside lime....but most i do with norton like i said...and through my saved file ..with lime not running.....

Just an old highway tramp
---Bill---

Hi there guys,
So glad to hear from you!
Hopper, I have LW off when I try to delete, because I don't want anyone trying to upload that file. And you're right, it's a batty file. But it won't let me rename it either, so I can't warn people off. I've tried to drag it out of my shared files, but it only makes another copy on my desktop. So frustrating. LW has never let me rename or delete from its library though it acts like it will. I go to the file through Win Explorer to delete or rename.
I have a Lexmark 4 in 1 printer and it works like a charm. I don't know much about HP, but four new black cartridges for free is not a bad deal!
I was sorry to hear that the workaround, having iTunes on 24/7, failed. But don't give up, IMHSN, try to find another program that will wake up the system regularly. Or maybe schedule a task, for every 15 minutes or so, anything that will cause your system to fire up.
I've never had anything but Norton for my firewall and virus scanner, but their file ccApp would not delete and really latched onto the memory. I'm always checking to make certain that the Window's firewall and scanner are off.
It was always a fight between ccApp and Windows Explorer, to see who got the cpu usage. Now if I could just keep Verizon's software from replicating svchost so I don't have six or more little 14 K executables running for no good reason, other than it might be a virus that's too new or too disguised for any of the virus scanners to catch. So far I've only run Norton's, Zone Alarm's and HouseCall. They all say my system is clean as a whistle, but it can't be. Too many little glitches happening.
I don't have the expertise to track down a virus myself. Since I'm heading to Baja this Thursday and coming back on Monday next. I'm debating on whether to take my system into Best Buy and have them give it try. It may take a new harddrive and a fresh Windows XP install. But I need my old files, so they could end up putting the virus right back on the new harddrive, if that truly is what I've got. Sigh.
Well, I bought a new computer desk, but I have to put it together, so I'm going to go play with that for awhile. I'll turn on LW and see what happens.
Bye for now!

Hello grandma....
not sure what to say,,,I take it you don't have the clean sweep on your norton then.....???? bring up the system works....then utilities ...then system maintaince.....then clean sweep....browse on the bottom right....find your file or folder...then open and then wipe.....check it out and if its not installed ....you might put your norton disk bac in and check and see if you got it....most people don;t even know it is there....and as long as you install norton the typcial way you dont get it ,,,,but do a custom install then you do.....that is if you got the norton system works package....then you got clean sweep ...you just got to install and do a custom install....doing that you get a lot of extras you wouldnt have other wise....
did you ever check out that CClean ...you might try it and see what it might find....

http://www.ccleaner.com/

then couple guys over at after dawn swears by this for virus...you might want to turn norton off and install and just run it and see if it comes up with anything...you can always uninstall it after you run it .....something else do you have live update turned on with your norton.....???

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

like i said a couple of the techy guys that are on after dawn says this pretty good free virus software.....

take care love and ebnjoy your trip

just an old highway tramp
---Bill---

I'm only running Mcafee internet security version 6.0 for 2004.

Limewire used to work fine but since i upgraded to PRO and the later .30's releases I have started having this problem.

dont know much about Mcfee.....do you have lime wire permitted toget through it....and do you have you windows fire wall turned off

just an old highway tramp
---Bill---

Life is just full of disappointments, isn't it? My latest was finding out the 3 year parts and labor service plan with Best Buy that I got for this computer doesn't in any way cover software. Not even Windows. I'll run the CClean, Hopper, and hope for the best, but this runs so deep, it may only be fixed by a complete wipe of Windows. Saving my files will cost more than the wipe and reinstall of Windows XP. Sigh. Best Buy is open till 10 tonight, so I'll take it in about 9:30. It'll be like leaving an arm or a leg with the Geek Squad.
At work the IT people ghost everyone's systems, copying whole Window's installs with every program the techs need to do their job. I just worry that if I have Window's reinstalled, then put all my stuff back on it, if this is a virus, I'll be right back where I started.
Hopper, I had already uninstalled Norton and installed Zone Alarm, when I last wrote. The software has a lot of people praising it to the heavens. I didn't get System Works when I got Norton Internet Security w/antivirus 2005. I had it on my 98 SE computer and it trashed it. I'd had no trouble whatsoever until I ran Norton's defrag. After that poor old 98 wanted to scan disk at every boot up, and kept coming up in safe mode. I ended up getting another harddrive, since the old one now had bad sectors all over the place. It probably wasn't Norton's fault, but you know who hard it is not to associate bad experiences with what came just before.
But the price shouldn't be too bad and I'll be so glad to have a system that works again. Of course, I'm still drooling all over the new computers. There's one that cost about the same as this one, $599 (after $600 in rebates, and I got every cent back) which has a gig of DDRAM, 200 gig harddrive, and 3600 AMD processor. Mine is 2600. It also comes with the new Windows Media Center. I just cannot justify buying one now, but oh how it tempts me.
imhsn, you're getting all the issues now that we've been fighting. I forgot to tell you that I wrote the LW Pro support about a month ago now and they never responded. That doesn't mean they won't respond to your queries, of course, but I don't want you to get your hopes too high. I had Pro from the beginning and it ran wonderfully until I upgraded to 30. But I've noticed LW is sitting at "excellent" connection when I leave the computer for a while, which isn't so bad. What was bad today was that it had disconnected while out I running errands. I've been trying to get a copy of a rather large file now for three days and it's just now hit 73%. I may lose all that if Best Buy has to get drastic.
Well, I need to finish packing for my trip and I want to check out the two links Hopper sent me, too. So I'll say goodnight from Santa Maria and wish you all a great week and an even better weekend. Talk to you next Monday, if my computer is back from the shop by then.

reformatting isnt that big of deal......just the lose of files that you dont want to back up because may have something......
you know you can pick up a 200 gig from tiger direct fo under 100....300 gigs just a bit higher...they been running some good deals at tiger direct on line....
my system is a P4 3200....daul channel with four sticks of 256...which ads up to 1024....i can max it out to 4 gig... an IS7-E intel mother....80 gig master HD with my OP system and a 200 gig slave drive just a fileing cab....
so am I to beleive that at work your around a bunch of tech too...hehehe...get one of them to go to maxtor.com and get you a wipe image from there.....and burn it to cd useing nero vision express....and show you how to use it....basically you boot off of it the first time and use it to clean your drive completely ....then you you boot again and install your OP on fresh....clean drive...

Its called power max and they can find it at maxtor .com....but you need someone who knows how to use it to do it....i have only done it a couple times myself......but had someone on phone walking me through it....the tech from cyber power...which is where i got my little toy....and if your wanting a media system look there too....hehehe.....mainly gameing system though....
anyway love take care....as i am after one file and so far only gotr bad ones of it......Bewitchd....so far have brought done 4 differant files ....and still haven't got the real one yet...

just an old highway tramp
---BILL---

Wish I knew where no man's land is, then if it was close I'd have you help me with my computer. Isn't that nice of me? No, I wouldn't do that to you, Hopper. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't, anyway. Heh-heh!
Oh, man, I went to that CClean site you turned me on to and they put me through the ringer a couple of times. I can't believe they call it freeware when they want your life history and your first born child before they'll give it to you free. I didn't make it past the second "questionaire," one of four sites I had to choose from. None of them were any good, so I picked the "get cash when you need it!" type rip off place.
Their stupid form wouldn't recognize that I'd filled in My Monthly Income slot. What nerve to ask me things like that, but I'd gotten that far, albeit resentfully, and figured I'd play the game, since you said the software was excellent. So when I realized I wasn't going to get the last form completed, I sent them a very nasty email telling them just what I thought of them and their "free" software. Arrrrggggg!
Anyway, being a bit flustered, I dumped a cup of coffee on my keyboard, having set it where I never do--on the shelf above the keyboard. I grabbed it up and set it back on the shelf and toppled it over again onto the keyboard. That didn't do much for my mood, I'll tell you. Luckily, this keyboard is fairly well sealed. I used a can of air to blow out what I could. It's working, so far. You won't believe this, but one of the best geek techs at work helped me get this newer keyboard. I had spilled a cup of coffee on the old one and he told me to rinse it off in the sink, spray it down good and let it dry. I was aghast at the idea, but he's a heck of lot smarter than me. Well, that was the end of that keyboard. He is so smart, but I know now to follow my instincts because he has some goofy ideas as well as fantastic ones. He's very very smart, but not got much social skills.
Now I'm jealous of your system. What a monster it must be! All bulging muscles! Do you game a lot? If so, what games? Mr. Smarty of keyboard fame plays in the Star Wars Galaxy or Universe, I can't remember. But he's regaled me with fascinating tales of his factories that make armour, and how he has to get the raw materials from dangerous places, etc, but sells the armour for a small fortune to other players. Wow, that's wild.
Anyway, I'm just making sure the keyboard worked. I have to dismantle all the cables again and get this cpu to Best Buy. When I was disconnecting everything earlier, I almost burned my wrist and forearm leaning it against the top of the tower. I don't think it should run that hot. I'm going to have the techies check my fans.
Going to miss my friends on the forum, though I haven't heard from Sarge and Grandpa in ages. Like before, have a great week and such. I'll be back to catch up on everything Monday. Now be good!