I installed limewire basic and it seamed to install fine but when i open it it only opens as a prosess not an aplication. I allso tryed the offline install. internet is always conected.

Try deleting your LW preferences, & if that doesn't help, try a different version of Java. See Fixes for Limewire If you have Java 1.5 then uninstall it using Add/Remove control panel. If you have 1.4.2 then just install 1.5. Also try some of the other tips in my link.

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how do i change my preference when i cant even open lw
??????????

There was more than one thing I suggested to try. Change your Java version then. Also change LW's compatibility to win 2k mode (if you have win 2k or XP.) This used to work for older versions of LW.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa
"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
The shy can light the dull dark room with life when their eyes mirror their inner sunrise - LOTR

I am haivng the same problem as zakiman. Limewire won't open when I click on the shortcut (or any other way of starting it). I am running WinXP. I have uninstalled and reinstalled, and still nothing happens. I have also tried all the suggestions you've made, LOTR. None of them has worked - I still can't get LW to load at all. any other suggestions? thanks.

So you tried both versions of Java 1.4.2 & 1.5 and changed compatibility. And you tried the offline installer for both LW & Java?

At this point I'm not sure it'll make any difference but at least set it up in preparation: Did you configure your firewall so it allows LW full access (advisable not to have 2 active firewalls b/c they can interfere with each other); Firewall configuration instructions (click on link)

Do you have any other utilities active that might prevent LW from opening? AV programs, etc.

Just in case, you could always run this utility in case XP has locked things up: http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa
"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
The shy can light the dull dark room with life when their eyes mirror their inner sunrise - LOTR

my fire wall tells me alll but ill try it when at the corect computer.

thanks.

I'm having the same problem and I'm not sure if this helps but I started having this problem when I changed the main directory name that LW was installed in. Meaning....
Before, LW was installed in ~Online\Limewire and I changed the directory to !Online\Limewire.

LW would not work after that so I uninstalled/reinstalled it into the new directory and it still would not work. I uninstalled it again along with removing all LW entries in the registry and my .limewire directory in my profile.

Reinstalled and still installs in the task manager only.

I'm running WinXP with LW Pro 4.9.28 and I have tried running in Win2k mode also. Same thing.

I don't have the 'repair' option in the add/remove area so I can't try that.

I have not tried the Java upgrade (not sure where to do this) but I would not think this is the issue since everything was working fine until I changed the directory name.

Thanks for any help,
Debbie

Well I have verified a few more things.

I did go ahead and update Jave to 1.4.
I also verified that it was not a corrupted profile.
Nothing worked.

I even searched again through the registry and file contents within my C: dirve for the main direcory name and could not find it at all.

Funny though. If I change the directory name back to the original name it will go through the setup and goes into LW and then gets the fatal error and closes.

I even uninstalled and reinstalled an earlier version. Reacts the same way.

Thanks,
Debbie