I have limewire 4.8 installed on my comp... Well, of course when I open it, it tells me that there is a newer version of LW available. I have tried to updated my LW version and the set up actually starts but when it tries to remove the older version of LW an error message box appears telling me that "unistall.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close".

i have tried to manually remove the version of LW in various ways: from my add/remove programs - control panel, under the run feature and even by clicking in the unistall icon in my hard-drive and the still the same error message occurs. is there another way to remove it or how can i update my LW?

Have you tried All Programs > LimeWire then click on the uninstall option?

oh yes! of course... damn that error message!

When the error message appears you should be able to click on the error report details, find the offending file name or code that it gives you, jot it down..
Now go to start and click on search enter the file name and when it finds the offending file delete it....
Hopefully this will work this is how I deal with corrupt files and stuff that causes your programs to want to shut down..
Good luck let me know how you go...

If that doesn't work go to Start/My Computer/C:/Program Files/LimeWire delete the LimeWire folder.

After you do that follow the instructions below.

You will need to install Java and LimeWire manually First go to the first link.You can find Links to java in there Download Java to your hard drive by putting a mark in the save to disk box. Save it to my documents or wherever you save downloads from the Internet. Do the same with LimeWire the second link will take you there.

Now with that done click on start then control panel add/remove programs and see if Java is listed on the list if it is uninstall it.

Now click on the Java installer you saved to your hard drive and follow the instructions after you have completed that do the same with LimeWire.

Please post back and let us know if it worked. If it did not I will give further instructions on manually deleting Java and LimeWire from you registry.


http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp use the offline installer


http://www.limewire.com/english/content/download.shtml

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A little common sense goes a long way

Later Grandpa

ok so i tried to locate the corrupted file and it turns out that it was missing. so what i did was the process that grandpa posted and that worked! i now have an updated version of LW. whoo hoo!

thanks everybody for helping me. i appreciate it so much and forever grateful! have a good one...