Hey,

I use LimeWire 4.9.37 on my Windows XP Pro (SP 1) and recently it stopped searching. Or rather, it starts up, it shows uploads, but whenever I search for something the screen that usually shows the results just turns gray. I can not click on anything, because it's just gray.

It can't be my hardware because LimeWire worked fine up 'till a few days. I already uninstalled and re-installed once. Then uninstalled again, cleaned up my registry with a registry cleaner to remove any obsolete keys and re-installed again, but it still doesn't work.

Does anyone have a clue as to how to solve this problem?

Thanks already,
Wolve

Don't suppose you have played any games lateley. The link below might help.


http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=39600

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It is not the starting screen that is gray. The whole of LW works, even the uploads, it is only when I enter a title for a song (for instance) and I click "Search" that the part of the window that normally shows your search results turns completely gray and does not respond to anything any more.

Otherwise LW works fine. And, like I said, I already re-installed and clean re-installed. Still no one got a clue?

Which version of Java do you have? (Go to LW's menu Help>About LW...) Will show both LW & Java version.

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LW Version 4.9.37
Java Version 1.4.2_04

This may or may not help, but you could try upgrading to Java 1.5 (take the JRE) (click on link) but I'd recommend getting the "Offline" installer as this is much safer to install.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa
"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
The shy can light the dull dark room with life when their eyes mirror their inner sunrise - LOTR

LW Version 4.9.37
Java Version 1.5.0_06

Still doesn't work. I can re-install again but I don't think that'll help much. So, this appears to be an unique and unsolvable problem? =/

When did the problem start happening? Was it due to you updating to LW 4.9.37 or have you recently installed other software or made any other system changes such as settings of graph card or monitor or OS updates?

If not any of the above, try deleting your LW Preferences folder whilst LW is closed; instructions here: Point #2 in Fixes for Limewire (sample at bottom of page.)

No, I haven't changed any settings nor installed any programs that should cause any problems to LimeWire. In fact, the only thing I installed was that Registry Cleaner to Clean Install LW again.

Anyway, what exactly do I have to delete? Just the entire content of the map? For I see no file named "Preferences", nor a map (If that's what I'm supposed to delete).

Anything specific or just everything?

I'm not sure what you mean by map. But delete the folder called .limewire The previous link I gave has a sample image of how to find & delete it.

This might not be the solution but it sometimes fixes little anomalies like this.
BTW next time you open LW you'll need to go thru the set up process again.