Hi there,

I have been using Limewire since the beginning and have pretty much updated whenever one became available. I have had more and more problems it seems with each upgrade. With version 2.6.3 I have major problems with the program that frustrate me so much I usually just quit the program and forget about it.

Limewire is incredibly slow from the beginning. It takes a long time to start up. This has always been a problem and one I don't mind so much, as I'm used to it. When I first started up 2.6.3, it took FOREVER to recognize all my songs. I have 500 some MP3s and it easily took over 5 minutes for that process. With subsequent start ups, that time was greatly reduced.

Now when I start up the program, things are fine in the beginning, things run at an ok pace, but then after a couple minutes things slow down incredibly. When I click a menu or a button, it takes 30 seconds or so to register I've clicked it. And sometimes when it stalls like this, I collapse the window to do something with another program and when I reopen the program, the window is blank and does not redraw the screen fully. When I click where I think certain menus are, they sometimes appear, but when I click on them nothing happens. Not even when I click on close (if I can get it to appear). I have to force quit the program, which makes my computer internet connection not work and I have to restart the computer.

I have read the FAQs and have tried alloting 40 MB (40000k) of memory to Limewire as suggested, but this does not help. If I allot more than this, the program will not open.

I am running Limewire 2.6.3 on an iMac 350 under OS 9.2.1 with 192 MB Ram, virtual memory off. Is there something I can do to fix this? Something I'm doing wrong? I have tried trashing the program and reinstalling but this doesn't help. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!

Turn on virtual memory. Many applications will use less memory that way and LimeWire will work better with the extra available memory. If that doesn't work change the memory assigned to LimeWire to a lower value, say 2500 K. Some have success giving LimeWire more memory that way but this method doesn't always work as expected.