It was released as RTM for developers not for resale no machines have been sold with Vista on the until a couple of days ago. Vista has been Available to MSDN subscribers as a beta not retail for a long time. Which I am a MSDN subscriber. And LimeWire 4.13 is not compatible with Aero and will disable it. I have been running LimeWire with Vista RC1 for months now and have no major problems with it. I did purchase the retail version of Ultimate and am currently running Ultimate x64 and will be installing 4.13 Pro shortly if there is a problem I will work with zab and the other developers to try and help figure out where the problem is.

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I just installed LimeWire Pro 4.13.0 on Windows Vista Ultimate x64. I first tried installing by just clicking on the installer and it hung on installing Java.

I then went to the Java site and downloaded Java 6 x64 version and again tried installing LimeWire once again the LimeWire installer tried to install Java and hung.

I then went back to the Java site and installed Java 6 JRE (32 bit) using the offline installer. I then tried installing LimeWire it installed without any Problems.

When I started LimeWire it showed a firewall in front of the globe and only connected to 2 host. I then checked the windows firewall and made sure it was allowed in the exceptions which it was.

I then configured my router for both port forwarding and upnp forwarding the globe disappeared and I got a turbo connection. I then did a search for a large file and started Downloading a file 200 MB file within 2 minutes I had 10 connections and I am currently downloading the file at 150 KB/s 50% done in 7 minutes so LimeWire works fine with Vista.

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Excellent Grandpa, I have bookmarked this thread for future enquiries...

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Hi,

I too am an MSDN subscriber, err more my company than me. We received the RTM CDs for Vista in late Nov (close to the end of the month) from our MS rep, and we were downloading it from MSDN in mid Dec.

I guess I will need to differ with gramps... I am running Vista 32 bit Ultimate, on a P3 933 Mhz machine, 2 gig RAM, and an ATI 9600 Pro with 256 MB. I have Limewire Pro 4.12.11 and have JRE 1.6 (needed it for Citrix).... and Aero is functional... there was no issue installing it, and I do have a firewall in front of the globe and also get turbo connection.

I don't see a compatibility issue with Limewire Pro and Vista Aero (I am assuming that I would not have transparency and 3d Flip if Aero was off).

Rick

Sure, you can be turbo charged & have the brick wall (as that example shows). It means people would greatly struggle to upload from you, alias 'leeching the network'. If you're using LW at work then that's probably why. They may well have firewalls blocking incoming for LW. Else, check all possible sources for the firewall; Software firewall & router/modem devices, etc.

The final release of Vista does not have the issue with LimeWire and Aero that RC1 had. Microsoft apparentley fixed the problem.

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I am so confused. I just bought a new laptop with Vista and I can't get Limewire to work. I have gone through this thread and tried everything.

I THINK I downloaded Java 6 JRE and I THINK I properly configured the ports on my router for port forwarding and upnp forwarding. Nothing has worked.

At one point I even disabled the windows, mcafee and my linksys router firewalls. When signing in to Limewire it still shows a firewall and I can't connect. The weird thing is whenever Limewire is open, I can't access the internet through my browser.

I have no idea what to do.

I am having the same problem as tsp120. Please help!

Can you supply these details please....
System details - help us to help you

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I think it's still the case that LW won't use Java 1.6 if there's any other Java versions installed on your computer. That's how it was & is how it is for my windows set up. BTW who is your ISP?