My Limewire works well with vista becuase I run it as an administrator. I also drop any firewalls out side of vista's. If you are the only user on your system,
You will have to right click on Limewire's Icon and select run as administrator.
This opens up file sharing features with in vista. Just like in XP.
Go to Microsoft and search for UAC concearning Vista's Security features.

Hope this helps.. Dr. X

have tried all sorts of things and did as suggested running as administrator but didn't work i have norton internet security 2007 and vista whenever i open a game and exit to go back into lime wire the icon in the tray is there and then disapears when you move the cursor over and all sownloads were suspended while you were playing the game if you can help or need more info please see this thread for background http://www.gnutellaforums.com/genera...e-problem.html

Okay by no means am I a computer guy ,but after reading forums for three days and a sore butt I seemed to have fixed at least it shutting down. I noticed the same solutions coming up all the time switch to windows basic, delete pre. folder re install , roll back java driver .To tell the truth i didn't understand the java reinstall at all . So I came acrossed this one thread that said even if you shut down windows firewall it was still on.
Here's the my setup,
Windows vista that had Mcaffe uninstalled at best buy and trend micro virus and web root spyware put in, but I think they ripped me for the webroot because trend micro does spyware too but let's not talk about that now.
I passed all the test that people have here and all that stuff .
I'm not telling you I did this because I was smart , I just took a little bit of everybodys advice and did it.

1. Put limewire in advanced search deleted every thing because like most my uninstall did not work.

2. Turned off windows firewall wich in fact will stay on behind the scenes as I found out on the forums.

3. Went to limewire site reinstalled normal no offline or anything.

4. Put firewall in search ,went to advanced pref. settings

5. Went to inbound rules on left column ,down to limewire, now I don't know why but there was 4 on the list and noticed that two had UDP settings and two had TCP settings now on the forums I read about setting up UPNP or UNPN whatever settings about using man. port forwading and stuff. So I changed the TCP to UDP allowed limewire through the allowed list and stuff. Now I don't know if did the wrong thing or not but it can't be worse than port forwarding , right ?

6. Changed to windows vista basic, changed all the little stupid things that vista does with graphics but still looks like vista ,shadows ,scrolling and things. I think I found that stuff through visual settings or something.

7. Changed screensaver to something simple my wife put picture slide on I changed it to bubbles.

8. I moved all my music and videos to another folder because I don't know if it would erase that stuff or not because I don't know about those things. So I moved the stuff back to the shared folder and started it up.


So far everything has been okay one time I went down to starting connection but I think that had to do with my LAN I'm on a wireless set up through the eeither net off a tower 4 miles away. I know I didn't spell eeither right , but I don't know about computers ,typing or the english language either.

I hope this helps somebody. I feel bad for people that have mcaffe because some where on the forums somebody found a patch from their website you can download and fix the problem they had but I would get lost on that one too.

If this does help maybe stick it on other post because, I don't know how to do that either.

I agree with Dr X the latest limewire does work with vista Business edition and ultimate. These are the two platforms I have tested it with.
The only thing is I did not have to do anything special to get it to work, just get the latest java and your away.
Some flaws well only 2 that concerned me was: 1/ I could not view a partially downloaded video file, (which means u could end up with crap).
2/ search results were no where as good as with XP, in fact i found it dismal in returning accurate numbers and titles.
Oh yeah and it was a little slow starting up.
I have gone back to XP because of these reasons and have enjoyed my limewire experience to the fullest again. If anyone knows of any solutions to the first problem I would love to know as it frustrated me.
thanks to all this is my first time on a blog.
regards horse67

but will it work for WINDOWS VISTA BASIC?
i've tried a lot of stuff, and LW will start fine,
then the connection thing stays in "starting connection"
i dont know what to do! i've been having this problem
since i bought it, and i'm really desperate!

I HAD LIMEWIRE BEFORE IN XP. I GOT A NEW COMPUTER AND IT HAS WINDOWS VISTA HOME. I CAN DOWNLOAD LIMEWIRE BUT IT WONT BRING UP ANY MUSIC OR VIDEOS. I AM USING AVG VIRUS PROTECTION AND I HAVE TURNED MY FIREWALL COMPLETELY OFF. CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP I HAVE TRIED A LOT OF DIFFERENT THING.

try this vsliter

close LW

go into my computer C drive>>documents and settings>>owner(or your name)>>.limewire

in here I found a gnutella.net file that I deleted and LW is now working...I hope this works I too was trying for days to get LW working.

I Tried That And It Didn't Work

my solution to my problem was to do with the java that i was running with lime wire my suggestion would be to make sure you have the latest limewire download and the latest java update on your system

vsliter,

Your gnutella.net file will be within a different folder. Try looking in C:\Users\your username\AppData\Roaming\LimeWire.
That folder's hidden by default, so you'll need to make sure that you're showing hidden files & folders before you go looking for it. More info below.
LimeWire Pref Folder in Vista

You'll also need to make sure that LW's properly closed before replacing the gnutella.net file. Have a look at the thread below. Most of the info's for XP but even though Vista has the folders in a different location, it'll give you an idea of what you should be doing.
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...tml#post298705