I've been reading through probably every post on this board that deals with limewire loading and then turning into a gray screen with just limewire:enabling etc.. on top. I did all of the tests and got the "Test Worked" page to come up, I uninstalled and installed java 3 or 4 times, and installed 1.4 2 times and am now back to 1.5. I rolled back drivers on my graphics card.

It seems to come on and stay on for about 5-10 minutes, then it goes to the gray screen, sometimes after a few minutes it will go back to normal but other times it won't.

I have more than enough free space on my computer (100gbs) I have 2gbs ram I'm running Windows xp (i tried all of the firewall tricks)

I've even tried going between 4.10.0 and 4.10.5 and nothing, I have pro if that matters.

Any advice?

Have you tried changing video settings?:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=51678

yes I did

I have/had AA and AF on application controlled.


To give an idea, I started limewire about an hour ago. After 10 minutes the screen went grey for about 15 minutes, then it came back and was fine for the next half hour and then within the last 2 minutes went back to grey

You didn't say whether you've tried deleting the LW preferences folder. If you haven't, give it a try:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=36420

I deleted the .limewire folder

the thing that confused me is that in that thread it says to go into application data. I deleted .limewire folder right from the documents and settings/ my username folder.

And I went into C:/Program files and deleted the limewire folder there (after doing it from add/remove programs)

I'm completly stumped.

I could have sworn I went to show hidden files, but for some reason when I went back into it now it didn't show up as show hidden files.

This may work, thank you. I'll post the outcome.

Ok now another stupid question..

I turned limewire off, am I supposed to uninstall limewire or I don't touch limewire I just delete the limewire folder in the application data file?

Thank you for your help

Just delete the preferences folder while LW's closed. Then restart LW & give it a while to settle down. You'll have to go thru tools > options again & reset your preferences.

ok thank you very much.

So far so good, everything seems to be back to normal.

I take that back, it was open for 10 minutes and went to the grey screen again.