I also had slowdown problems but only with 4.8.1 on the screen. If i minimized it, the pc would pick back up and run fine. I thought it could be my video card (nvida fx5500) or something, but i get the same response on my laptop (ati mobility). I'm running jre 5.2 on both machines.

Hi zeroz06

There have been several problems with both display adapters you mentioned. With various fixes for each.

I suggest you search(upper right) for this. You will find numerous posts on this subject.

If you havent already done it, I reccomend that you set limewire not to connect automatically as soon as you turn on your pc. This helped me to make sure everything was running smoothly before I opened LW 4.8.1. I have no problems unless I download a lot of things at once, If i run more then my pc either crashes or slows down and limewire starts running at like 50,000k.

Odd, I searched the forums for Nvidia, 5500, fx5500, nvida slowdown, fx5200, mobility.. nothing mentioning the problems alot of us appear to be having.

As mentioned in an earlier post regarding LW (upon loading) taking up 100% pf CPU resources.
With nothing to lose, I reset LW options back to default. This meant that I had to set up LW options all over again.
Fortunately, I quickly found that by reducing the amount of files shared from my library, the % of CPU required by LW dropped to quite low amounts. (This was unforseen by me and quite a surprise) I found that when sharing about 4,500 files, (and yes, even after LW had been given lots of time to sort and load these files) CPU usage eventually stabalized at about 58% and stayed there.
When I reduced shared files to about 75, LW CPU usage stabalized at a mean of between 7 and 10% with the odd high spike, that I think is about right.
This is not good for the LW P2P community, but it works for me. I haven't attempted yet to calculate the point where amount of files shared actually pushes CPU usage up beyond acceptible limits.
I share over 5,000 files on Shareaza with no problems at all, so if my conclusions are correct, there must be a bug somewhere in LW Pro. Incidentally, I'm really interested in finding if this solution works for others or is a local thing.
Regards, KKlutzz

This doesnt completely have everything to do with the prob, but I can tell you right now that having more than 30 processes running in task manager is almost a sure sign you have spyware on your puter. Maybe not in your case, you may just have a zillion programs running that you have installed. But be VERY VERY Leary as to what is running in background. As having so many processes running like that can SERIOUSLY slow your puter down, even if it show only 7-15% cpu usage. I have a MAXIMUM of 32 processes running and they are the bare minimum to run anything I need. But as for the this website it is www.theeldergeek.com , now this website HAS alot of GREAT information that works fantastic. It will tell you anything you want to know about tweaking and processes.you name it,this site has it. Anyways, have fun......SOULKILLER

Watching taskmanager, my machine runs about 95-98 percent idle. Run limewire, bang, 0 percent idle, 95 percent limewire. I'm sharing about 15 files as I'm new. There's a bug, no doubt. Didn't have any problems until I upgraded to 4.8.1. In other words, 4.6 ran just fine.

Hmm try a couple of things:
1. Try deleting your LW Preferences folder whilst LW is closed; instructions here: Fixes for Limewire
2. Whilst LW is open click on the Progress bar on the downld window. This will arrange all files by %. Then scroll down to the 1st at 0% & select it. Then scroll down to the last one at 0% & whilst holding SHIFT key select this one also. So with all those incompletes at 0% selected, click the Stop button. Then go to your incomplete folder (outside of LW), view it in list mode & by size. Then delete all those at 0 KB. This will reduce a lot of drag on LW when you open it.

Also when you open LW, let it settle for 10, 20 or 30 mins before using. And don't use the Resume/Find Sources button on all your files b/c this WILL cause side-FX such as slowing down your comp & LW, perhaps affecting LW's connection quality, & maybe even affecting your modem.

Hello all, thank you for all your help. I followed the instructions that one of the guys give me about lowering resolution and setting it to 16 bit instead of 32 bit. Believe it or not it helped. SO I guess the problem doesn't reside in JAVA, it is NVIDIA drivers thats loaded on the system. Will have to wait for another version of nvidia drivers to come out and upgrade.Thanks guys....
SOULKILLER

kklutzz - thanks for the tip on sharing. I reduce the amount of files i'm sharing and suddeny woo computer is fast!! I'm not using pro either so it has to be a bug somewhere in the code which is common between both progs. Now just to get it to connect :P