I am using W2k professional. Turning on limewire causes explorer/IE/my computer to shut down on key presses (but mouse clicks are OK), making it virtually impossible to do file maintenance or browse the internet while Limewire is running. Turning Limewire off does not completely fix the problem, either. I have to ctl-alt-del javaw.exe, too.

For the SIXTH time. . .

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This problem is directly associated with the Cydoor Advertising System (distributed with LimeWire, KaZaA, Opera, and many other progs) and the McAfee VirusScan WebScan Module. Although Cydoor has cleaned up their act considerably and is very close to not being spyware, it is still poorly written and causes problems.

There are four ways around this.

1. Delete Cydoor at
Windows\System\cd_clint.dll (Win 9x/ME)
Winnt\System32\cd_clint.dll (Win2K/NT)
Windows\System32\cd_clint.dll (WinXP)
or with Ad-Aware (www.lavasoftusa.com)

2. Replace cd_clint.dll with a dummy file; a benign dll which tells the host application that all is well, but nothing more and displays no ads (Useful to maintain the ability to use KaZaA, but not necessary for the recent versions of LimeWire) available at www.cexx.org/cd_clint.zip extract to said directories above.

3. Disable the WebScan module in McAfee VirusScan. It's not too useful, but is still nice to have kickin around.

4. Buy LimeWire Pro. It doesn't access Cydoor.

Hope it helps,

-Dividend

of course if it actually SHUTS DOWN, like power off, black screen, and no green light, then that's a new one. I assume you mean CRASH, otherwise ctrl-alt-delete does nothing when the computer is off.