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Thanks! that fixed the troubles....
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Thanks Coffeenicotine....That finally worked, but it's right clicking, not left.
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Coffeennicotine I love you.
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Thank you, thank you, my kids were driving me nuts 'cause they could not get it to work with our new computer! I'm so glad there was someone else that had the same problems,& that this site exist, once again, THANK YOU!!
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This process just worked for me too. Thanks for your sweat and frustration
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Hey all,
I also had the 12% problem. im running vista and havent had a problem with it til now,
i upgraded to LW 4.14.10 a couple of weeks ago and also around the same time time java. apon coming back to LW a couple of days later it wouldnt start.not knowing what caused it doesnt help. it just stalls at 12% start up.
uninstal -reinstall change this change that ..... nightmare....
Coffeennicotine's solution worked perfectly. so thank you coffeennicotine.
If anyone else has this problem give this a go before deleting anything....

Cheers all
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Default this worked for me thanks!

thank you
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Originally Posted by Coffeennicotine View Post
KK, My friend and I both just had an excruciating experience with this on our windows vista laptops.. btw, we were running firefox ....

Here's how we BOTH fixed this problem.... this may only apply to vista machines tho... sorry

We changed the shortcut to and the limewire.exe file itself both to compatibility with windows XP sp2 by left-clicking the icons and going under the compatibility tab.

Then we left clicked the shortcut and chose "run as administrator"

after doing this the program hung up at 19% and said something about a "save folder" being damaged or missing. after hitting the "OK" button on this dialog box another dialog box came up asking us to choose a folder to stand in for the "missing or damaged" saved folder...

We simply created a folder named "saved" and this solved the problem....
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Angry Deleting Files

I tried to delet all files. When into search folders and files. I pulled up 4 folders. Tried to delete them and got this message "The C:\program files\limewire.jar.tmp folder does not exist. The file may have been moved or deleted.

Does this mean it's really deleted?

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




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How did you uninstall limewire?
If you're doing it via Add/Remove programs then that can cause problems!!
The correct way to uninstall is Start > All programs > Limewire/Uninstaller

Use your computer's search to look for all files & folders with limewire in the name. If you can't delete them, reboot into safe mode & then try. If they still won't delete, try one of the tools here...
Incomplete Download File won't delete at all.

Then when that is done...
Try uninstalling all versions of Java from the add/remove programs and then re-install the JRE 5.11 offline version....
Archive: Download Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Update 11

Then install limewire using the offline installer...To find the offline installer, use the link below > cancel the installer window when it pop's up and then select the offline installer link...
Lime Wire » Download LimeWire


If that does not help with your problem try deleting your preference folder/s...
Fixes for Limewire when LW isn't operating as it should
LimeWire Pref Folder in Vista
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omg i feel like im going crazy, i still cant get it to work with the first suggestion on here, and i dont quite understand coffeennicotenes suggestion, "We changed the shortcut to and the limewire.exe file itself both to compatibility with windows XP sp2 by left-clicking the icons and going under the compatibility tab.'" i couldnt find a compatibilty tab?? is it because shes running firefox an im not. please help
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ignore my last post i got it going, i opened my eyes properly and found the tab, thanx so much coffeennicotene
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Ohmigoodness, I had this exact same problem! But, once I deleted all of my Limewire files (including the ones in my preferences folder) and downloaded Java again, it ran like silk! Thanks a million!! :-)
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The suggestions for getting Limewire to install and run on Windowas Vista worked like a charm from Wondering Why, It takes a little time and patience and you must follow his steps to the letter. BUT if you do as instructed , you get LW up and running fine with no errors,no conflicts and no freezes. Couldn't have done it better nor been any more clear and concise on what you have to do.Listen to the guy, he knows his stuff...... Thanks, bud. Dave.
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I had the same problem. It stopped at 12% under WinXP. Then i did shift+rightclick on the limewire.exe => execute as ... Administrator. Although my user already WAS or at least seemed to be administrator on my machine, it worked then. At 12% the configuration wizard is opening when you start it for the 1st time. and thats what was blocked before. Hope it helps u as well.
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Dude, Coffee, you rock. Excellent advice. Totally got my stuff working. Thanks!


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Cool im STILL stuck at %12..where is compatability??

Hi,

I read the great advice from coffee, but I cannot find the compatabilty tab when i right click on the limewire shortcut on my desktop. I see the "run as administrator" but not the compbatability. I'm going nuts!!!! Please help!! Thanks so much everyone

Justine
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