Grey Searching Screen
 

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

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.

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.

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.