Since installing Service Pack 2 movies freeze while running Limewire
 

Hi

I am using a HP Pavilion with XP Home, 512 Ram and a 3 Ghz P4.

All my drivers are up to date.

Whenever I run Limewire and try to watch a movie while Limewire is minimized or maximized windows freezes at random, and I cannot use my mouse or keyboard. This seems to have started ever since downloading SP2. The system never crashes when just watching a movie without running Limewire. I have the latest version of Zonealarm running. This also seems to occur when I have any file sharing program running in the background the system just freezes up at random if I watch any movie file after a while. I have the latest version of WMP and divx and also it seems to occur even if I watch a video with Limewire's built in player.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Make sure u have the most up to date Java (see this thread (click me) and Java can be updated from http://www.java.com/en/download/windows_automatic.jsp

Yet it could also be a Zone Alarm issue! See these following threads: Thread 1 , and thread 2 , and this thread, but especially this link!! (Woops, lost it for a moment.) Hope this helps. I'd suggest that if u update Java the problem may go away, so try that 1st. Good luck.

Do I have to uninstall Java? or can I just download it and it will automatically update itself?

U answered before I finished editing. If you click the Java link, it should update automatically!!!

Thanks I updated hope this helps....

Still no luck :( I also tried uninstalling Zone Alarm and using Sygate personal firewall now.


Any other suggestions? I doubt its my hardware as I just got this laptop last week and updated all the drivers. It doesn't crash any other time except when I play a video and run limewire at the same time. As I said before it also happens when using shareaza and a video at the same time. What I don't get is that it crashes while watching a video in Limewire too :(

On your firewall do you have the proper settings to allow LW

did you try reinstalling limewire, to uninstall you go to add/remove programs and uninstall there, than you delete the files, in the limewire folder, which is usually under program files. and the .limewire folder inside of c:/documents and settings.

Check this & it's link out then. What's your result?

Yeah I can receive incoming connections, XP firewall was always off ,I'm using Sygate and it still crashes really weird huh , It never crashes if I just watch a movie or run limewire alone. A shame considering its a hyper threaded processor. Games run fine also.

So the problem is not really LW. It could very well be an issue with the new WMP version (unless it's a graphics card issue.) If u can run LW alone without problems, then it's a prob with the software by the sounds of it. Freezing on a mac generally suggests incompatibility or a software clash. There are utilities out there that can check for software clashes. U might be more in the know than me for Windows. One I'm aware of is called Conflict Catcher.
I was just thinking, if it's a dual processor, there might be an issue with how some apps cope. Keeping in mind that video is processor hungry (& graphics card needy.) The earlier mac twin processors had dome issues with some apps in a similar way.