I've tried everything reinstalled uninstalled checked my firewalls incase and norton everythings ok but still wont get any search results.

Provided your LW has all green/blue connection bars -

1. In LW go tools > options > searching > basic & check whether the 'show license warning' box is ticked. If it's ticked , untick it > Apply > ok...see if that makes any difference.

2. Problems with the search

3. Delete LW's preferences folder when LW's properly closed. See point 3 here & also point 2 if you've used older versions of LW in the past (there could be a folder in either location).
Fixes for LimeWire
This will change all of your settings within LW's options, you'll have to go back through afterwards & reset things to the way you like them.
Vista users: LimeWire Pref Folder in Vista

4. Disable all options (TLS, DHT, UP capablilties) within LW's tools > options > advanced > performance.

thanks a ton Birdy it worked

That's great

Can you tell us which fix worked for you? Heaps of people are having this same issue & if we can find out which fix works for the most people, we might be able to save people some time when it comes to which fix we recommend.

Thanks!

I have had limewire basic for a while, .......For the past couple of weeks I have tried to seach for documents and get few results if any, normally I get tons of results. But when I searched for audio files hundreds came up. What's the deal?

Ademoss, is it possible that the spam filter is hiding some search results because it thinks they're spam? You could try resetting the spam filter by going to Tools > Options > Filters > Junk and clicking "Forget Training Data".

Hope this helps,
Michael

oh sorry yeah i fixed it from just doing "1. In LW go tools > options > searching > basic & check whether the 'show license warning' box is ticked. If it's ticked , untick it > Apply > ok...see if that makes any difference." but all of a sudden its not showing results again so gonna figure it out again