When I am searching for a song the results start to come in and first the program freezes then my whole computer. HELP!!!

A little more information is needed to help you.

Machine type & CPU
Operating System & sp
HDD
RAM
Firewalls
LimeWire Version
Java Version
Modem type & model no.
Connection type (Dialup,ADSL.DSL,Cable)

Thank you

Sorry I forgot to add all that.
I have os win xp w/sp
40 gb of hdd
i HAVE THE win firewall.
I have Limewire 4.4.4
I have dial up connection.
I was able to connect and download but in the middle of downoading my whole computer freezes and then I have to unplug the battery to turn it off.
i have a great quality laptop.

Hmmmm I'm not sure I don't see anything obvious.

When was the last time you did any routine maint. on your laptop.

It would be a good idea to run disk cleanup and disk defragemter.
These can be found 1) start 2) all programs 3) accessories 4) system tools. It sounds like you have a nice laptop and it would most certainly appreciate this.

Also I didn't see how much RAM you had.

One other question are you running any other programs at the time this occurs? Make that 2, how long after you start d/ling does it freeze up?

I don't know how much ram i think it might be 250 or something but I have a 40GB hard drive. It freezes like in the middle of a download. some of the results show up but then it just stops.

Greetings

256 MB of RAM is minimal requirements for LimeWire and most of the new programs today. It appears you are using up all your system resources. Kinda like everything getting in a traffic jam.

Have you performed the routine maint. mentioned above this will help.

Also decrease the number of d/ls you are attemting.

Also configure LimeWire for optimal performace.
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=27036
1st post only

RAM can be an important factor. You really need 500 MB to be on the safe side nowadays.

When you use LW do you use the Resume function. I'd strongly advise against using it to continue multiple downlds on a dial up connection & particularly if you don't have lots of ram. It will rob LW of its connection quality & use up LW's resources & perhaps your comp's if you used the Resume button on many files.

Settings changes: Tools>Options>Speed & tick to disable the ultrapeer capabilities. Press Apply button. On uploads reduce your upload bandwith to 2.3 KB/s or less. Set your downloads to automatically clear. Delete search results more than a few hours old. Close/Hide windows you are not using at that time (eg: connections, library, monitor windows.) Use the View menu to do this.

Which version of Java do you have? You can find out by going to LW's menu > Help & choose About LW.

Delete LW Preferences folder whilst LW is closed. Instructions here: Fixes for Limewire

Fabion beat me to the button.

Ahhhh! I have same problem with LimeWire after version 4.2.6 (it not hangs), verions starting with 4.3/4.4 hangs. Currently I trying to track down hangs...

I use operating system OS/2, and JVM ported from Sun JVM 1.4.1_07. May be nla1228 uses same version of Java? And same JVM problem exist in OS/2 and Windows? Simptom is absolutely same - table filling with search results and GUI hangs.

By tracking down this hang, I found that similar hang may happen when awt-thread and non-awt thread updating swing components at the same time.

May be in 4.3/4.4 some code which updates swing from threads executed without EventQueue.invoke(AndWait/Later) ?

Just a simple question, why are you using Java 1.4.1 when LW 4.3 & 4 were designed using Java 1.4.2? The latest is Java 1.5 LW generally recommends 1.5 JRE.

Eros2 -- Please send a kill -QUIT signal to the PID of LimeWire. It will generate a stack dump of all threads, which will help us in figuring out what's going wrong.