it was a nice easter gift but oh well. i think i am just going to give up. is there any possible way i can get a refund or something atleast since it didn't even start? or can my mom cancel it on her credit card? thank you soooooo muck for helping me.

Fabion hinted you might not have admin privelidges on your computer to install softw. Is that right? If not then your parents will need to install the softw for you.

Also you may need to clean the registry. If you don't have a registry cleaner you can get one here: HERE (click on link) (Some of those are free I think from memory.)

my parents are not very "computer savvy". i am pretty sure i have admin. control. if i don't how would i get it?

I am having the same problem, I had to reinstall java runtime environment and then downloaded it from www.java.com. Only problem now is that after the install, I double click on limewire and nothing happens.

I have done a clean install of the java and the limewire software. Limewire still will not open. I had no problems till this update

I have made it a step further... After numerous uninstalls and reinstalls of both limewire and different java versions, I am now able to get Limewire to execute. My only problem is... the limewire splash screen is now frozen, with a message on the splashscreen "please wait while LimeWire initializes..." (5 minutes so far)

I have given up for today, as I am about to rip out all of my hair. I have uninstalled once more. I am at a loss on what to do. I am back to the limewire not executing when you click on the icon.

I even looked at your thread about installing the kernell32 . dll but I am not exactly sure how to do that, I did do a search on my windows cd.

*cries*

I am so at a loss right now. I even tried to reinstall the old limewire and now that does the same as this version.

Windows xp Home sp2
Java 2se (sun)
Norton Internet security - I have checked all my firewall settings and did all of the changes adding the Gnutella access.

If I click on limewire, I get the splashscreen which says initializing and nothing happens.

I also tried to follow the directions by symantec, actually I did. I file checking program ran, but I was never prompted to do anything other than allow the system to read from my windows cd.

SP2 was done as an update.

Still does not work.