I used limewire all the time, and it worked fine, had xp. Now i have a new computer with vista. downloaded limewire and now it only shows one bar of connection and wont allow me to download music. I have looked on limewire's site for support and have tried the suggestions with the firewall ports 6346 and all that. I have also looked around in the forums, nothing has worked. I am using ZoneAlarm for a firewall. I would appreciate help, thank you.

Have you tried uninstalling both LW & ZA, then reinstalling LW & finally reinstalling ZA? Making sure that LW is installed before ZA has fixed the problem for a few Vista users.

What other fixes have you tried from the forum? Please let us know

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Ok. I tried that. Uninstalled both. then installed limewire, it connected fine. and then in installed zonealarm, restarted and now limewire wont connect again. what can i do? I've also tried looking into program control in zonealarm, limewire is enabled. i've looked into deleting limewire settings which i saw in a post on this site, but wasnt sure how to go about it.

1. OS version? WINDOWS VISTA
2. What firewalls you have? ZONEALARM INTERNET SECURITY
3. How much ram? 4GB
4. Hard Disk space available? 500GB
5. Connection type? DSL
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers? D-LINK 300G
7. Where are you trying to connect from (house, appartment complex, school, student accomodation, work, etc.)? HOUSE
8. What version of LimeWire (LW) & Java do you have? LW 4.14.10; J 1.6.0
9. Who is your ISP (Internet Service Provider)? TELUS
10. Do this simple test for us. Using your browser go here: http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ The page should say 'Your test worked!'. What happens when you go there? TEST WORKED
11. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? NOT SHARING WITH OTHER COMPUTERS.. LW IS P2P
12. Is this a your 1st try at LW or is this a new problem with an experienced user. NEW PROBLEM, EXPERIENCED USER
13. Do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface? YES
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/attach...1&d=1158099342
14. For those using a modem/router, how is your modem/router set up...are you port forwarding or is UPnP enabled? DONT KNOW
15. What security programs are you using (antivirus etc)? Some people might not be aware that their security suite includes a firewall FIREWALL, ANTIVIRUS AND ANTISPYWARE ALL INCLUDED IN ZONEALARM INTERNET SECURITY
16. What country are you living in? CANADA

Have a look at the link below, it should help with how to remove your LW rules & add new ones within ZA.
PortForward.com - Free Help Setting up Your ZoneAlarm Firewall.

Once you've done that, restart LW & see how it goes. Also try (within LW) file > disconnect, leave it for 5 mins then file > connect.

Also try deleting LW's preferences folder when LW's properly closed. See point 3 here.
Fixes for LimeWire
This will kill all of your settings within options, you'll have to go back through afterwards & reset things. If you're not sure of your settings, go through LW's tools > options & write them all down, so that you can reset things later.
The folder's hidden by default, so see this link about showing hidden files & folders.
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/genera...der-vista.html

When LW connected without ZA, did the brick wall firewall icon go away? Have you always seen the brick wall icon, or has it just started showing up since the connection problem? AFAIK there's no firewall within your modem

1) tried new rules.. using these instructions PortForward.com - Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall
did nothing

2)disconnecting and reconnecting.. did nothing

3)deleted settings.. did nothing

4) will have to uninstall zonealarm again to find out.