LimeWire Pro (My Lime Wire locks right up after you start the program!)

[johnzon]

Hello to this group of fine folks, anyone else out there having trouble with the New Lime Wire Pro and Vista. My Lime Wire locks right up after you start the program! And ideas would be helpful. and appreciated. Thank you

[Lord of the Rings]

Delete your LW preferences folder, see http://www.gnutellaforums.com/genera...der-vista.html & see if that helps.

If still problems, is this the first time you have attempted to run LW or an experienced user?

[johnzon]

LW user 5 years or so system 15 plus years from the days of the 386, I have purged the LW from the system prior to each install attempt well over 6 times so far. Just getting LW installed was a challenge. I had to be on the ready to click and add my key code in a split second or the screen I delayed on just would lock up. Finally got it installed (I purged all the prior attempts to install before trying a fresh install again) I clear the LW file from here (C:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\LimeWire) at each attempt. I used reg cleaners prior to each attempt to install. I have now have LW 5.5.6.0 installed, I loaded a LW from this past summer I still had a copy of and then put LW 5.5.6.0 over top of that and it installed. Now I have this new problem at load it locks up with in a few seconds and you have to close out with Task Manager. when I loaded LW an earlier version that earlier version worked fine worked fine. I kept getting the popup to upgrade so I did the other day. Through out all this I even got a balloon telling me my version of VISTA is not genuine and I had to go through the process for re-entering the product key. I have no real big issues with other non Microsoft software just this LW PRO. I even paid for it. Have thought of going out to grab a copy of Windows 7 to try for a fix but I just bought and Loaded Vista a year ago. Really driving me crackers on this issue went through the FAQ's on LW site but nothing lead me to a fix.

[birdy]

Are you sharing heaps of files?

Do you have lots of incomplete downloads waiting to resume?

You could try updating Java (or reinstalling, if you already have the latest update): Java Downloads for All Operating Systems - Sun Microsystems

Download the offline installer & remove any other Java versions via Control Panel before installing this one. Restart your computer after installing the new Java.

[johnzon]

Thanks for your input, I have no other downloads in waiting everything else downloaded and installed first time out of the gate. This LW just will not respond, I did remove it and removed Java. I downloaded the LW went off line to install and did remove all the Java prior to said install. Then before restart reinstalled Java and reboot LW still locks up. I have the original DELL XP system disk but misplaced it I was thinking of removing Vista loading XP load the LW then upgrade to Vista. I just can not seem to find my XP Disk which came with this dell.
Still baffled here in N.E.PA.

[johnzon]

Minimum files shared 100 MP3's ( I swap them out weekly) That way they are not always the same. I put about 75mbs in applicaions in the shared folder and there to I change out weekly. No video shared. It is not an issue of just simply waiting for the shared folder to load in which is stalling LW. As a test I went down to about 20mbs total shared to see if that helped LW but no change. I give it 30 minutes or more to load and have every other no essential program closed and no help. I would be happy with the older version of LW except I went and paid for the upgraded version and wish to use with it is I paid for. I feel if I do not get it to work I just lit $40.00 on fire.