the info on those threads didnt help. i did just change to to an older version to increase my download speeds as was suggested to me for that and it seems to have rid me of this issue. i changed to version 4.9.37. but thanks for trying to help by suggesting that i didnt try searching for my problem first.

I've got the same problem, if I find out what's going on I'll post it up.

folks;

I have tried everything suggested by peerless and sleepless -

deleted all traces of limewire from registry and machine - no joy - btw i have 2 gb of ram

so draxxus902, i look forward to your findings

I even cleaned my registry (even though I just installed windows on this computer 2 days ago) and it still goes slow. The only thing I haven't tried yet is the old version of Java (4.2234 or whatever). I'll try that and report back.

mate, i have done all of the above incl. changing java versions, deleting all folders associated with limewire and searching and deleting registry entries for any traces of limewire.

on reloading, limewire still uses 100% cpu

it may be an issue with the new version of limewire (v 4.12.6)

can someone give me an older version of limewire to try

other than that, i give up

if the people who develop limewire are reading this, please HELP

cheers, nr

The same thing is happening with me. I did everything in this thread with no avail! I don't know what else to do!

Hey folks,
I am using Windows OneCare and have been overjoyed to dump Norton and the rest but my LimeWire Pro 4.12.6 also is maxing the CPU. I tried all the above mentioned steps then I just let my machine (P4, 2 Gig RDRAM & 1.2 TB HDD's) sit at max for 1 hour or so and it all returned to normal. It should not do this as I have another machine same spec that it does not do it to. I suspect software incompatiblity somewhere like Pinnacle Server or the like but I am now leary of restarting my machine. I will keep trying to isolate the process that causes this and will let you know if I am successful.

Same here..
I could b4 get a preview of what I was downloading, not any more as the media player won't load now that LimeWire uses 100% cpu power.
I could surf the net/ e-mail/ MSN ect. now if LimeWire is on it can barely run it's self..

Same problem here, i open lime wire, it uses 100% cpu, and my comp restarts... i have tried all, erasing ".limewire" folder, downloading al older version of lime wire, fixing java, everything and the problem continues....

if someone knows how to fix it, please help!!

Ive experienced this same problem after so many hours of use. As far as i can tell it isnt a ram issue. Got 512 ram and 1000 megs puter min/ 2000 megs max. 1.7gig p4 cpu. At times it seems that lw just eats up the cpu resources. I just restart lw (4.12.3) and all is fine.