Thank you LOTR. I did as you suggested and it's working fine now.

Experienced the same problem as you miamiblue and now, after LOTR's instructions, everything's all fixed, such a godsend! Cheers!!!

I only get one green bar too and it says it detects a firewall, but I have done everything to turn it off. This only happened with new version. Would buy pro, but hearing everyone having same trouble so NOT!!!

Try the fixes in the thread below, start off by deleting LW's preferences folder.
If nothing there helps, post back with your system details (that thread has info about the details that we need).
If LW Will Not Connect

Shannon4
Sorry to hear it, but I gave up battling LW and loaded FrostWire. Works like a charm and even recognizes LW downloads! Okay, only SOME LW downloads, but still - not quite starting from scratch.
Try asking LW for your money back - that might work! ;>
Good luck.

I have one pc running XP home the other Vista I have tried LW 4.16 on both neither will connect so the machine running vista I upgraded to LW 4.18 still nothing. Please help

I have had enough of this piece of **** PROGRAM!!!!!!!LIMEWIRE EAT **** AND DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

I am having similar problems. We have two computers that use LW. The second has Microsoft Vista on it. It was working at first. Now it says there is a firewall issue. Can't figure out where. We have turned off or disabled all the firewalls, but the message is still there and LW will not load. Any suggestions?????

This is what worked for me:uninstall limewire,delete the original downloaded file.Go to CCleaner - Home anddownload the free ccleaner file.Run ccleaner ,restart your computer,download the latest version of lime wire and install it.

Make sure both LimeWires (LW) are not using the same connection or listening port. You can check by going to LW's menu bar, Tools > Options > Advanced > Firewall, & check both listening & connection port sections. If both LW's are using the same port for either connection or listening, then change the LW that isn't connecting to a port number between 49152 - 65535 (64049 is a good one to try.)

Don't forget VISTA has it's own firewall. Make sure it has a firewall rule allowing LW full access; User Cant Connect - LimeWire

FYI: routers will not allow two programs or two computers to use the same port number. A router will reserve one port per program per computer.

If using both LW's at the same time, your router, if wireless in particular might be struggling to cope. Wireless devices tend to be erratic & unreliable with bandwidth use.

You can also try suggestions here: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...t-connect.html