I am using the free version of Limewire, and have been for a couple months. It has worked perfectly until yesterday when I downloaded the Windows XP Service Pack from Microsoft. (full, official version)

I have been unable to open the Limewire program. I have completely uninstalled the program and tried to reinstall with the link on the 'download' page, but to no avail.

The only thing missing is the actual .exe - all other files (including the adware) have installed perfectly...


Is LimeWire going to have a patch for XP SP1 users soon?

By the way, if it helps... I have a HP Pavilion 7955 computer preloaded with XP Home...
It's a P4, 1.5ghz, 256mb SDRAM, 40gb HD, 32mb NVIDEA graphics card, CD-RW, and DVD.

No internal modifications have been made to it.

I actually tried that before posting to this board. Didn't help at all.

Might be related to the fact that XP SP1 will also update your IE to 6 SP1 .... I noticed that IE 6 SP1 DELETES two interesting files in the SYSTEM32 folder, JAVA.EXE and JAVAW.EXE. I put this two files back in place. These two are part of the Java 1.4.1 Runtimes required by LW !!

Actually, there should not be any JAVA.EXE or JAVAW.EXE file in the Windows\system32 folder for Java to run properly.
Java can be installed clenly in its own path.
The Java installer installs it in the bin subfolder of the Java install directory, and inserts a reference to your %JAVA_HOME%\bin folder in the system environment...
If you have Java partly installed in Windows\system, you were previously using another software that installed it incorrectly.
You should delete all the Java packages you hae on your system, cleanup the Software\JavaSoft registry keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
Then reinstall java cleanly. All softwares will use the correct setting for the Java VM (including IE6).
When I upgraded XP with SP1, I did not experiment any problem, and the Sun Java VM was still working.
There is no reason why JAVA.EXE or JAVAW.EXE be located in windows folders, where Microsoft rules the game and installs its own deprecated and incompatible VM for Java 1.1.3...