LimeWire causing Windows BSOD crash?
 

Hi,

I have a couple-month-old ********* laptop computer, in which I have installed LimeWire PRO. Everything worked perfectly for the first couple of months, until about a month ago, when my Windows OS started freezing as soon as I ran LimeWire, eventually causing a BlueScreenOfDeath screen with an error code 0x000000f4. After restarting the computer, CHKDSK would automatically start running, and would find some problems with a file named downloads.dat

Any ideas on what the problem could be? :confused:

Thanks in advance!

Go and read here:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...&highlight=bsd
The messages of the dat file could imply a corruption of it. If the suggetsions in the other thread do not solve the problem, you might have to delete your incomplete folder. But then all incomplete files will be lost.
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Thanks, but I found no information that could help my problem on the thread you linked me to.

I tried reinstalling Java, but the problem is still there. I uninstalled LimeWirePRO and instead tried installing the trial LimeWire, but I have the same problem.

I don't know what to make of this, because my computer only freezes up whenever I run LimeWire. The odd thing though, is that I have LimeWire on my other (older, less powerful) computers and it works perfectly.

Where can I find the downloads.dat file? How about the downloads.bak file? What directories can I search for possibly corrupted LimeWire files?

It seems to be apparent that the problem is not LW, but rather something else on your system causing LW to behave like it does.
The Incomplete folder is usually at the same place as your Shared folder. In my computer I can find it " C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.<my computer name>\Incomplete "
The .dat and .bak is inside this folder. After you've uninstalled LW, you can search via "START>Search>Files and Folders" for any remaining file of LW (type limewire in the search query) and delete them. When uninstalling LW try to use the uninstall.exe, which you can choose via START>Programs>Limewire>Uninstall.
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Thanks again Fool,

But yesterday I found what the problem was:

It seems the sector of my HDD in which my incomplete folder was in, was damaged, therefore whenever I tried opening LW, it made everything freeze up.

I ran a complete CHKDSK /f, and it found and repaired my HDD.

Thanks for your help!

:)