Cannot Start Limewire - Help
 

Have downloaded and installed limewire 3 times now, each time when it finishes it tells me there was a download problem and that I need to install Java Runtime Environment before Limewire wil start.

I have done this 3 times also, and it still does not start.

When I click on the desktop icon, I get the following blurb:

LimeWire version 4.12.6
Java version 1.5.0_06 from Sun Microsystems Inc.
Windows XP v. 5.1 on x86
Free/total memory: 3166928/4128768

com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader$StartupFailed Exception: file [LimeWire.jar] has hash of [212CE41FC54827F4534B27063325B6BB] instead of expected [0B27FDA0142B4B9559F936A9C3EBBDB8]
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader.verifyHashes( GUILoader.java:328)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader.sanityCheck(G UILoader.java:294)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader.load(GUILoade r.java:48)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Nativ e Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknow n Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Un known Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main.main(Main.java:44)

STARTUP ERROR!




FILES IN CURRENT DIRECTORY:
C:\Program Files\LimeWire\.NetworkShare
LAST MODIFIED: 1160397845112
SIZE: 0

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\clink.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398161225
SIZE: 307949

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\commons-httpclient.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398162127
SIZE: 459988

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\commons-logging.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398163289
SIZE: 59154

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\commons-net.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398163539
SIZE: 355370

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\COPYING
LAST MODIFIED: 1156261556013
SIZE: 18349

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\daap.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398164701
SIZE: 388504

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\data.ser
LAST MODIFIED: 1156261556138
SIZE: 358

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\donotremove.htm
LAST MODIFIED: 1156261555826
SIZE: 0

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\GenericWindowsUtils.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1156261551091
SIZE: 12279

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\hashes
LAST MODIFIED: 1156261723404
SIZE: 298

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\i18n.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398166184
SIZE: 25678

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\icu4j.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398166284
SIZE: 741440

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\id3v2.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398167275
SIZE: 94430

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\install.log
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398186998
SIZE: 2098

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\jcraft.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398167576
SIZE: 136693

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\jl011.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398168518
SIZE: 255016

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\jmdns.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398169429
SIZE: 69306

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\language.prop
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398093603
SIZE: 4

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire On Startup.lnk
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398186988
SIZE: 1542

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire.exe
LAST MODIFIED: 1156261555747
SIZE: 159744

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire.ico
LAST MODIFIED: 1156261555810
SIZE: 92854

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398137616
SIZE: 7117582

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire.jar.tmp
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398098582
SIZE: 7117582

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire20.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1156261553326
SIZE: 40960

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\log4j.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398169719
SIZE: 677952

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\log4j.properties
LAST MODIFIED: 1156261556169
SIZE: 7171

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\looks.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398171783
SIZE: 630634

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\MessagesBundle.properties
LAST MODIFIED: 1156261543747
SIZE: 114510

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\MessagesBundles.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398160063
SIZE: 2951044

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\mp3sp14.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398174467
SIZE: 40064

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\msvcr71.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1156181867982
SIZE: 348160

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\pmf.ico
LAST MODIFIED: 1156261555904
SIZE: 3262

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\ProgressTabs.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398161135
SIZE: 5786

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\root
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398093503
SIZE: 0

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\SOURCE
LAST MODIFIED: 1156261556060
SIZE: 268

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\spacer.gif
LAST MODIFIED: 1156261558701
SIZE: 49

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\themes.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398174928
SIZE: 620179

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\tritonus.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398176210
SIZE: 152711

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\uninstall.exe
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398187048
SIZE: 186040

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\unpack.log
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398124364
SIZE: 587

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\unpack200.exe
LAST MODIFIED: 1150474389125
SIZE: 122880

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\update.ver
LAST MODIFIED: 1156261547935
SIZE: 3810

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\vorbis.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398176681
SIZE: 27215

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\WindowsFirewall.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1156261553404
SIZE: 61440

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\WindowsV5PlusUtils.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1156261553451
SIZE: 12808

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\xerces.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398176871
SIZE: 2147687

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\xml-apis.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1160398183452
SIZE: 207655

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\xml.war
LAST MODIFIED: 1156261549482
SIZE: 8423

If anyone could help I would be grateful.

Follow steps 1, 2, 3 & 5 here Fixes for Limewire

Thanks for that LOTR - However, I have carried out all of the steps mentioned and I still get the same message.

Any further ideas?

If you reinstalled Java, deleted the prefs folder, etc. Reinstalled LW. I'm not sure what else you can try. Use the "Offline" versions of both Java & LW installers always in this situation.

Next to try after that would be the "Other" version listed at the bottom of the download page. Just unzip & use. Unzip it & use