Sorry it didn't work. Hopefully one of the gurus will read this thread & have some more ideas for you

*Just to make sure, did you get your LW from the official site:
www.limewire.com ?? (if it's a scam version, there's no guarantee it'll work properly)

I really appreciate your help though.

I have preferences as 10 downloads at once would that make a difference? is there any preference that would be causing this? lol

yes I got it from limewire.com, It's the pro version and I downloaded it off of the download link you get when you sign up (if that matters at all) I'm pulling at straws here lol

Well, 10 downloads is quite a lot. You could try setting it to something lower (I have mine set on 3). Depends a bit on what connection & speed you have.

oh ok, one last question.

I deleted the folder again and went back into LW, it was doing okay, no problems and then I went to preview one of the downloads and the screen went grey

Just try reducing the number of simultaneous downloads (you don't have to delete prefs, just make the change & apply). Are you downloading huge files? When you open LW, give it half an hour to settle before you start downloading. Just try downloading a single file & see what happens.

This thread has lots of info about maximising dld/uld success:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=17321

Now we are getting somewhere lol

thank you. I reduced the downloads to 5 and I'm not having any problems.

Good job! Hope it lasts

I woke up this morning and the screen was grey again, I set it to 3 downloads last night. Then on top of that, whenever I have to exit LW and restart it from going grey it says sorry we can't start any of your old downloads.

Any help please

I've tried to do a bunch of things you guys have mentioned in here, and I'm still having troubles too. I really like LimeWire, and really don't want to have to switch. I mainly like the 'Whats new' feature.

If you guys happen to find the answer to this problem, I would greatly appreciate it as well.

Which version of Java are you running? Go to LW's menu bar, Help>About LW & it will show both LW & Java version. Tell us what version of Java & LW you're using.

Try changing skins. Go to LW's menu bar, View>Change skins & choose another skin option. Do you still suffer the same problems with the new skin?

Set your graphic card settings back to default &/ set 3D to minimum. As suggested earlier, see GeoForce 3D setting, or/and this one The way to fix the Blank screen on startup
Sometimes the problem can be solved by the particular driver version used. Be that updating or downgrading the driver version.