When I activated limewire my computer slows and in the dowload window it shows my downloads as complete. The complete files are only partial and there is a disk problem notice in the line of the download discription. Any ideas.

Among other things you could have run out of disc space ????

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Use disk defragmenter to get your HDD back into shape. And keep at least 20% free. If your HDD is fuller than that then a slow down in performance is not unexpected.

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I have 189 GB of hard disk space free. Once I run the limewire program the computer runs slow until I turn it off and back on.

Is this after many hours of heavy use ( continual uploads and downloads) or just an hour or two?

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after several hours all night download. Today I had to download some MS securtiy updates and then it started to happen.

A occasional re-boot seems to avoid this, but it seems to be a common view that 4.9.30 in particular is overthirsty on the computers resources although you have not said which version you are using. Are you a long time Limewire user or just started? I need sleep so my next contribution will be later and refreshed!

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I have 4.9.30

You are not alone in complaining about this and I know of people who have reverted to using 4.9.28 and found an improvement. But bear in mind that the occasional re-boot may be all that is required. Also did you defragment? You may have an installer on your computer or perhaps you are a new user..... and you could probably find a copy on Limewire but BEWARE OF VIRUSES

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I have tried rebooting and the minute I re-open Limewire the computer slows and stays that way even if I close limewire. What is funny it that it just started doing this the other day. I have used the current verison for about a month now with no problem except I got a large (2000+) cache of viruse last week and had to wipe my computer and reload every thing. I think it was limewire because I had the file called Complete with movies and music in it that the viruses was in. Anyway how can I get an earlier verison of limewire?