My limewire is going haywire!
 

I have liked my limewire up to this point.. I was running limewire 4.8.1 and the latest java.. While trying to downloading a RAR file called "WindowsXP Home Update". I went to restart my limewire because it was lagging and while doing so.. My limewire would not start again. It came up with a java error. I sent to bugs@limewire.com... In the meantime while i am waiting for a response i was wondering if you have any solutions.. It will not let me uninstall cause it says not all the files are there, so i cant just uninstall and reinstall.. I am running a dell 60gig HD, with 768 ram, 2.3ghrtz, with windows XP home.. also i have dsl (actiontec 54mbps) PLEASE help me! thanks..

To uninstall LW go to Start menu>Programs>LW & choose uninstall. You can't uninstall it using the Add/Remove prog control panel. You can however uninstall Java using the control panel. Do that, then re-install Java. Then reboot the computer & then delete the LW preferences folder before attempting to open LW; instructions here: Fixes for Limewire

I have went to my computer and went to the uninstall file. Which and it was there but when i did it. It says that file does not exsist anymore which is a bit confusing if i may say.. i clicked on start\all programs\ and there was no LW file there.. umm HELP! lol..

If it won't uninstall .. then follow my directions & delete the prefs folder. I wonder if it's saying that b/c it detects another version in the background & b/c they can't both be removed the same way it gives that error ... else the other or this LW version is still active. Hold down Control-Alt-Delete keys & process manager & see if there's any other LW listed. If there is then my suspicions might be true. ALso you'd need to remove the LW icon from the program tray before you could delete it anyway. A reboot then uninstall LW. Then search your computer to see if other versions exist that are actually a program.

I did the search for the .limewire and deleted it. ok and now we found more limewire versions through search results. But.... none through the control panel, add\remove technique... there was none there.. which kinda confuses me.. what should my next step be? remove all limewire files there are and redownload the latest version? and see if that works?

plz can some help us?

You need to reinstall the same version..then uninstall it.

so i should delete all limewire files and then reinstall? the latest version

yeah or u could instal version one if u like lol :D

Thanks everyone for your help...We are making progress!!
We think we have limewire up and we wanted to reinstall Java but when we click on the link listed above and it says to dowload Jave JRE 5 it somes up JSE? Can someone tell if I should continue? And then I will go in and reconfigure the reinstalled Limewire like it was before all this started.

Choose the link that initially says JRE! Go here http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp (They keep changing the link!)

Hurray!!! Thank-you for helping us the link for Java worked. I will finish reconfiguring now. I'm not sure what happened but with all the past versions off the computer and same with Java. Its probably for the best. Now with only the latest version it should be easier to find problems. So when a newer version of Limewire & Java come again. What is the easiest way to handle that? I was wondering and appreciate your time
Thanks again
K

The newer version of LW (4.4 & above) should be able to uninstall actually during the installation process (the 1st part of the process.) So the installation will uninstall the previous version at the same time (so long as it's after version 4.4.)