Please don't complain to us about LW drumming up business...the helpers here are volunteers who do not work for LW.

You've posted onto a thread about LW not connecting. As far as I can see, your post has nothing to do with LW's connection to the network.

Go through the forum sections, find the one most appropriate for your post & start again.

No offense, birdy, but you're kind of an idiot. I'm having the same problem as so many other foulks - LW works for awhile - quite nicely, I might add, as i got several hundred good downloads in 24hrs with littls effort - then suddenly I'm stuck in the Setup Wizard.
I've tried the fixes suggested by you, LotR and afew others, but no dice.
If you can't see how that applies to the current thread, maybe you need to get some sleep.
Oh, and if you'll notice, I never stated or implied that anyone here worked for LW - I implied that the bug in the freeware version might be left intentionally to nudge people into buying the "pro" version - which, according to the thread, has happened.

It sounds like I'm having the same exact problem. I've had Vista for over a year and LW connected with no problems till about a couple of months ago. Now, I open it and it says it's connectign and never does, I have also tried everything as far as uninstalling and reinstalling then I just recently switched to LW Pro and it still doesn't connect, I have also tried going back to all of the default settings, going into my computer settings and trying things there, and messing with my firewall configs and still nothing!!
Can someone please help those of us with similair problems?
I think it would be greatly appreciated by all of us!!

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

If you could do your best to answer these questions System details - help us to help you (click on blue link) then that will help us to see if there's any suggestions we can make. It's difficult to help without knowing the whole set up.