The freeze-ups sound like a video driver problem. Beleive it or not, many IE6 and XP problems are solved by upgrading your video driver. (This is because windows is a GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE.) The problem may manifest itself with Limewire, but I bet getting updates - and running updates from windowsupdate.com will help.

I had the same problem then some. My basic Limewire works fine, but the constant barage of "Update to Limewire Pro" finally wore me down and I bought the $9.50 upgrade, figuring that if the basic works with XP, so does the Pro. WRONG! I got the same freeze up problems you did, PLUS my ADSL crashed and I had to manually remove all the limewire software, saving my music to desktop, reinstall my ADSL software, then re-download the Limewire basic.
AND, I can't find any link but this to ask for a refund of the upgrade! Good luck to you all. I am however, happy with basic and overall, I think Limewire is an okay deal.
Rodney

I had tremendous problems after I loaded XP onto the machine with Win98. I finally ended up losing ALL of my downloaded files (over 1200 mp3s), when FAT 32 became unstable and made the computer refuse to startup AT ALL. The quick fix- reinstalling XP with the "new" file system NTFS, failed. I believe because traces of the evil FAT32 remained. I have had to format the drive, reinstall XP and everything else yet again.

But XP then told me that Java was "damaged" so I downloaded from Sun the newest version. Thus far no problems. I'll just be busy putting the files back on the machine from cd's and downloading the ones I hadn't backed up.

I don't think the problems lie with Limewire, it's either the thing on the desk or the thing on the chair. In addition, the problem with corrupt files seems to have stopped with the download of new hot Java.

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy

You may have a point, that it is XP and not limewire that causes all the problems.
But still, if XP freezes only when limewire is around, it is most likely limewire's "fault".
XP isn't a really good os, as the rest of the win32 systems, and it's not ment to be stable.
But limewire REALLY bugs my system.

Some of it is mainly Sun's fault, for creating Java in the first place. But most of it is Limewire, that leaks memory like a incontinent old dog.

Limewire freezes up my Internet Explorer, my Netscape Navigator and my Explorer.exe. That I can live with, but when limewire freezes my computer, I get some serious issues with it..

Some unregistered user replied to one of my erased posts that it is my video drivers being out of sync, that causes my computer to freeze. Then explain why in gods name it doesn't freeze up when I'm not running limewire. Explain why limewire accesses my graphical adapter in a way that causes it do break. Explain why my network-load suddenly stops when "my graphical adapter hangs". There's something very fishy about the limewire, and I don't like it.

I've been reinstalling limewire and java in different orders now a couple of times, but nothing seems to help. And frankly, that's not the way I use software. That's a little too much magic for me, having the reinstall and reinstall to "get it right". It's not a stinking kernel i am installing, it's a java-klient to the gnutella network.

And quit erasing my posts, even though they are offensive to the limewire client. It should be taken out the back and get a real good bashing, it should!

I've been having problems with freeze-ups and system crashes ever since I loaded LimeWire 2.5.5 (earlier versions never crashed even once), and I'm absolutely certain it's not XP -- I'm running Win98SE. I posted a message about this on another thread,and so far the only reply was from someone who said they've never seen LimeWire crash . . .

Yes...I seem to have the same problem and i am running windows 98. It worked fine for awhile and now has stopped. I cannot get it to restart with alt/delete...have to shut down cpu....this is a real pain in my butt.

Hi,

My two cents worth of data on this subject:

I have a cable connection that sometimes downloads at better than T1 speeds(>190MBs). The upload speed is only around 65Mbs though.

So... I enter T1 as my speed and connect to 10 'hosts'. I then start downloading many files. When I reach somewhere around 15 downloads and 20 'requeries' going all at the same time I have about a 50% chance of locking up my whole system. I've done this with 2.5.5 and 2.6.3, it is fairly repeatable.

I have never been able to notice what was happening on the upload side of things when this happens. I suspect that I might have had several uploads going at the time.

I figured this was an issue of system resources so I didn't worry too much about it. In my case if I connect to no more than 4 'hosts' I can have all the downloads going that I want without a problem.

I have noticed that when LW is trying to auto connect to hosts It gets REAL SLOW in responding at the download window. Again, I figured this was a system resource issue so I don't worry about it.

Ken

I was cruising along fine and happy with LimeWire 2.6.5 Pro and JRE 1.3.1, and then I decided to install LW 2.7.3 Pro and JRE 1.4.1. And that's when all my troubles began . . .

I'm running Windows 2000 SP3 on a Celeron 500 with 256 MB RAM, an nVidia GeForce 4, a SoundBlaster Live! Value, and a D-Link ISA NIC. Since installing LW 2.7.3, I've had problems with the system spontaneously locking up, seemingly at random, even when I'm not running LimeWire. When I am running LW, I can expect the system to freeze within a minute or so. I share roughly 5000 files, although 2.7.3 has never gotten through the process of sharing these out, for obvious reasons.

Hangs outside of LW usually occur when I have Mozilla loaded, which leads me to believe the problem may reside in some Java module that LimeWire loads or installs, since that seems like the only point of commonality between the two programs. My other thought is that the problem is a driver issue, given that the system hangs completely (no three-finger salute). I've tried running LimeWire with JRE versions 1.3.1, 1.4.0, and 1.4.1, with identical results.

Unfortunately, I overwrote my LW 2.6.5 installer. If anyone has a copy, please let me know. I'd be perfectly happy rolling back to the older version.

Thanks!

Tom

Well, it looks like the good folks at LimeWire don't care to announce the fact that version 2.7.3 is a massive disaster, and their only response to all the complaints I've been reading appears to be to stonewall.

While BearShare lacks the tabbed searching feature that was so useful in LimeWire, it's a lot nicer in many other ways, so I think I'll test drive that for a while.

The posts about Java are right on the money.

It is my experience that whatever PC you buy or have now that has an MS OS as its OEM, don't upgrade it more than one level unless you're buying mid-OS release, in which case, look to buy those PCs that say they are pre-approved for the OS upgrade.

Wi*** to Win98 is okay.
Wi*** to Win98 to Win2K is not okay (unless pre-approved to Win98).

Win98 to Win2K is okay.
Win98 to Win2K to WinXP is not okay (unless pre-approved to Win2K).

Win2K to WinXP is okay.
Win2K to WinXP to Win$$ is not okay (unless pre-approved to WinXP).

Get the idea?

Don't overtax your PC's OEM config with multi-generation upgrades. Get over the idea that PCs are eternally upgradeable. They are not. Not yet.