Everytime I start up my system Limewire starts up and when I'm online it totally slows down my connection, but everytime I shut it down it just opens again in a couple of seconds. This is very irritating, I'd TOTALLY appreciate if someone could help me out here. Thanx

Reduce your downld bandwidth to about 80-90% & your upld bandwidth to about 75-85% & see if this makes any difference. Also disable ultrapeer capabilities. Go to Tools>Options>Downlds & Tools>Options>Uplds>Basic & Tools>Options>Speed to find these options.

Also see these hints:

* After opening LW wait 10 to 20 mins before using. Let it settle down 1st.

* Set both uplds & downlds to autoclear.

* Don't use the Resume button on all incomplete files. This can have side-fx such as affect LW's connection quality. May queue your files for much much longer. This will also stress LW & your comp. If you use Resume/Find sources then just apply it to a couple or so at one time.

* Tip: Purge the Downloads Queue!

* If still problems after applying the above then try reducing your share if you share multiple thousands of files.

I am having the same trouble dude. I tried what the other guy said but i cant find"Downloads & Tools"

Anyway they had better com out with a fix soon cuz i cant play any of my major games ( Halo, Half Life) until then. Peaves me off.
I love limewire. its a great program but when things like this happen it makes me want to uninstall it PERMANENTLY

PLEASE!!! SOMEBODY HEEELP MEEE!

Thank you very musch, I will try the things you said

Nothing worked, I tried reucing the bandwitdth and everything, it's just not working. I opens by itself every couple of seconds, I even tried uninstalling it and then reinstalling it but it didn't work. I'm going to cry and I feel like screaming at the same time. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

I dont know what i did but i went to Tools>options and reset all options to default with a little button at the bottom and all of a sudden mine quit. After i did this it came up with that little wizard like you just installed it and i went through it and its working just fine for me now. try it. p.s. i didnt have to leave the settings at default i did put them back the way i wanted them but it is still working okay.

I have the same problem with LW popping up. I've tried lowering the dwnload and upload bandwidths and disabling the ultrapeer capabilities and even resetting to the default mode... nothing works. I restart my computer and LW pops up again. Im not even connected to the internet when it does this.. someone please HELP!!!

1. Go to LW's menu Tools>Options>Advanced>System Startup & untick option & press apply.

2. Tools>Options>Shutdown & tick Shutdown immediately & press apply.

See if this does the trick.

I tried this and still nooooooooooooo.

I thought i had LW fixed but it started up again.

Im about to the brink of uninstalling it until friggen whoever writes the friggen program friggen fixes this friggen frig butt bug.

Its beginning to friggen **** the friggen crap out of me.

Good luck kc0rkx_finch. You haven't told us anything about your set up. So are we supposed to guess. Try another program then. lol Forum Rules (click here)

well i had this whole long thing typed up to tell you about five seconds ago but something happened and i lost it and ive gtg but ill let you know l8ter.

And i am really really really really sorry about what i said yesterday but ive been having to do a lot of work on my dads pc and then mine starts acting up out of nowhere it gets frustrating gtg will let you know l8ter today. bye

I had this exact same problem, and after literally 24 hours of analyzing every inch of my computer, I solved the problem. I suspect that based on your descriptions of the problem (which I had as well), you are infected with a virus. It's unbelievable that none of my AntiVirus packages picked up this infection.

For me, everytime I restarted my computer, Limewire would automatically load up. Even if I closed it, it would just open back up again. On top of this, I could not even access the Task Manager in Windows XP to allow me to force a shutdown of Limewire. I hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and nothing would happen.

Anyways, here are the steps that need to be taken.

1) Uninstall Limewire. You can reinstall it at the end of these steps.

2) Disable System Restore in Windows. This can be done by right clicking on My Computer, selecting Properties, and then clicking on the System Restore tab. Then check the box Turn Off System Restore. Hit Apply, and then OK. If you are prompted to restart Windows, do so.

3) Now we need to fool the virus into allowing us to open the Task Manager. This can be done by copying the Task Manager executable file from the Windows directory. To do this, go to c:\windows\system32, select the file taskmgr.exe, right click on it, and select Copy. Go to the desktop, and click on an empty part of the desktop. Then right click on the desktop, and select Paste.

4) Double click on the taskmgr.exe file on your desktop. This should open the Task Manager. Click on the Performance tab. If you are in fact infected with a virus, you will likely (although not necessarily) see close to 100% CPU usage!! Now click on the Processes tab, followed by clicking twice on the CPU column header. What this does is order the files running on your computer based on the amount of CPU resources they are consuming in real time. If there is a process, other than System Idle Process, that is consuming close to 100% of the CPU, then it is this process (or file) that is infecting your computer. For me, and likely for a lot of you, that file will be winupdates.exe. Don't be tricked. This is not a Microsoft program. It's a virus masking itself as a legitimate file. Please remember the exact name of this process, because you will need it in a later step.

5) Click on this process to highlight it, then click the button End Process. A warning prompt should pop up. Click on Yes.

6) Now that this process is killed, we need to remove any references to it from the Registry. Once again, because this virus is blocking us from opening the Registry Editor, we need to trick the virus by copying the file to the desktop. Follow the same steps as in number 3, except this time, copy the following two files from their respective directories, and paste them on the desktop.

c:\windows\regedit.exe
c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe

7) Open regedit from the desktop. In the left window, click on My Computer so that it is highlighted. Now select Edit from the menu, followed by Find. In the Find box, type the name of the process that you ended from the Task Manager. If you recall, mine was winupdates. Do not include the .exe, just winupdates. Then click Find.

8) For the item that it found in the right window, click it to highlight it if it isn't highlighted already, and then right click on it, and select Delete. If a prompt pops up, select Yes or OK to confirm the delete.

9) Now, hit the F3 button once. This will find the next reference to that bad file. Follow step 8 again to delete the reference. Repeat steps 9 and 8 until the editor indicates that there are no more references to this file. Then exit the editor.

10) Finally, click on cmd.exe which you copied to the desktop. It will open the Command Prompt (which looks like DOS). Type the following commands in order, and hit Enter after each line:

cd c:\
cd program files
rd /s /q winupdates

11) Now restart your computer. Reinstall Limewire.

This should hopefully fix your problem.

Bobby Naini

Holy Cow Hes RIGHT!!!!

I kept getting this firewall alert telling me <Do you want to allow winupdates.exe to access the internet?> i suspected something fishy because it had already asked a couple of weeks ago and i have already had it automatically downloading them. So i said NO. Thank god i did. mine told me it was something like innosetup.exe trying to use winupdates.exe to do this. But theres one problem. I cant find my system32 folder!!! it has to be there but searching the hard drive cant find it and i also searched for tskmgr.exe with no luck. Where is it? i looked in the C:/windows directory but its not there.. plz help

another way io know hes right is ctrl alt del doesnt work. i cant open regesit either. this guy is right on the friggen ball!!!!!!!

It has also apparently eaten up my printer stuff because my printer suddenly disappeard evcen though the software and drivers are still there it tells me its not. also when i try to install a printer it says it cant because the <printer spooler service aint running>

I would edit these posts but for some reason my browser keeps telling me i followed an invalid link and i cant.

In C:/Windows/prefetch folder ther is a file with winupdates in the filename It has to do with this virus so DELETE IT!!