I've been trying to get Limewire going since I bought it. I enter my keywords and get no reply for my searches. I've gone through the firewall stuff & made the appropriate "exceptions" in my security program (Trend Micro) and it still only has 1 bar and still says "starting connection." Please respond. I emailed yesterday, but haven't gotten a reply.
1. OS version?
Windows Vista Home Premium
2. What firewalls you have?
Windows firewall & Trend Micro Internet Security 2007
3. How much ram?
2,048 MB
4. Hard Disk space available?
C=133.4 GB
D=177GB
5. Connection type
Cable Broadband
6. Linksys Wrt54gs

7. From my apartment
8. LimeWire 4.14.5 Pro Java: 1.6.0_2
9. Time Warner Cable
10. It says “My test worked”
11. Not Sharing
12. This is a new problem with an experienced user.
13. Do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface? Yes
14. For those using a modem/router, is UPnP enabled
15. Trend Micro Internet Security 2007
16. Los Angeles, CA

Just check that you have configured your Trend correctly with these instructions...
Port Forwarding for the Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security

Also your Router has a Nat Firewall within, so you will need to Port Forward to allow Limewire...
These are your instructions...
Port Forwarding for the Linksys WRT54GS

If you still have problems after all of that...

Try uninstalling all versions of Java from the add/remove programs and then re-install the JRE 5.11 offline version....
Archive: Download Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Update 11

Then try deleting your preference folder/s...
Fixes for Limewire when LW isn't operating as it should

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/genera...der-vista.html

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