Then what did you try in the link I provided ?

thanks birdy

mate, i found the preferences folder and deleted it - no joy

when i start to change the folder for sharing, the system freezes - cpu usage hits 100%

looks like i will be stuck in gen x

cheers, nr

interesting....very, very interesting...(and disturbing of course)

ok...then try this....change the name of the folder that is currently your sharing folder...then create a new (empty of course) one with the same name...then start up LW and see what happens....

Have you tried a clean install ?

Delete Limewire using start>programs>Limewire>uninstall
Then delete the preference folder again and do a windows search for lime. Delete anything associated with Limewire

Then uninstall all Java

Download this one (use the offline installer)

http://www.java.com/en/download/windows_xpi.jsp

Do the check on the downloadpage after restarting your PC

Then download and install Limewire once again use the offline installer

www.limewire.com

I has worked for some

Dammit.. just lost KK to AA (all in on flop)

peerless and sleepless - i have done everything you said - used windows unisntaller to uninstall java - used limewire unistall to uninstall limewire

offline install for both j2se and limewire

in the limewire setup dialog, when i hit the browse button to change the default folder, cpu usage spikes to 100% and limewire freezes

just used the default save folder - limewire install finished but cpu usage spiked to 100% and stays at 100% (48,536-48,600Kb being used by limewire.exe) - just hit 49,000kb

cheers nr

Well I officially give up now. It's up to Peerless

The only thing I can recommend is getting an older version. Something pre 4.10 Try to PM Lord Of The Rings. I believe he has some old versions.

You will need an email account that has at least 5 MB free. Believe they are about 4 MB but can't remember

I only have Pro installers saved unfortunatly

Limewire does use quite a lot of ram but little CPU usually. 48000 might even be pretty normal

Could you give more specs on what kind of PC it is and protective software you use for future reference and maybe a fix later

there is definitely something wacky going on here...

reminds me of when I had installed a new hosts file, and it was wacked...did exactly the same thing....and it took me a week to figure out wtf was up...in my case, since the hosts file is directly associated with your OS, I had that symptom as soon as I booted up..cpu totally sucked dry, temps of the thing through the roof..took me a couple of days to figure out which system process was doing it, then a few more to remember I had installed that new hosts file...upon removal, things went back to normal...

hmmm..the only thing I can think of at this moment is that something deep in LW is totally corrupted...

when you did your uninstall, reinstall stuff, did you by any chance manually delete everything that was left?

like in the incompletes folder, totally deleting said folder?

and in program files deleting the entire LW folder?

maybe even doing a search in your registry and totally removing ALL traces of LW?

and as noted, changing the name of your downloads and shared folders so that upon a new install, they are not associated with LW at that point...

basically I think you need to really wipe your system clean of any traces of LW ever having been there, starting with a totally clean slate and a totally empty shared/download folder

i am having this exact same problem. it started yesterday. i had LW running overnight in the mornihg it had stopped with an error. i restarted and it worked fine untill i noticed that my computer was running slow. it was LW using 100% of my cpu. i have already tried reinstall an looking for viruses an spyware and every thing else that has been suggested. ive noticed that it slowly starts using more and more cpu, and that if i shutdown all searches in LW it gets better and then starts using more and more cpu again untill after several hours it will error and ill have to cntr alt delete and shut it down. i only inatalled LW two weeks ago. it ran peachy untill yesterday.

Here's another thread about using too much CPU
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...ght=100%25+CPU

If you use the forum search to look for 100% CPU, 99%CPU, too much CPU etc etc... you'll probably find a heap of old threads & maybe some other things to try