Im not sure if this is a good idea, considering legal issues with to much FYI's. But I would like to know when a file is complete - i.e. complete this second, versus completed- downloaded hash file. This would help know when I can close limewire. Sometimes I feel bad cause I dont know if the upload is gonna restart in the next few minutes or not.

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Your spyware may have made LimeWire work because it modified the TCP/IP protocol stack to include what is called (on Windows) a "Winsock LSP", i.e. a plugin for Windows sockets that normally performs address resolution, or supports ancillary functions through helper processes.

I do think that you have not completely removed the spyware, and that the spyware's installed LSP is still there, even if it is no longer working as expected as the main part of the spyware components are no longer there.

I suggest you use "SpyBot Search & destroy", and get into its "advanced mode", where you'll find the "Tools" button on the sidebar: then click on "Winsock LSPs". You'll see a list of LSPs installed in the Windows networking stack. You need to keep the following ones:

(1) Transport Protocols:

(1a) MSAFD NetBios (\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{...}): several instances are present, this is normal as there are several networking interfaces for the internal local host, in addition to remote accesses, DSL modems, Ethernet cards, Wifi adapters, ...

(1b) MSAFD NetBios (\Device\NetBT_Tcpip6_{...}): same thing, except that this is related to the support of the newest internet protocol "IPv6" instead of the legacy IPv4 protocol with 32-bit IP addresses.

(Both are supported in %systemroot%\system32\mswsock.dll; these two support the IP protocol for Internet, and optionally the NetBios protocol over IP, a.k.a. "SMB", used for Windows shared files and services; don't remove them as you would delete at the same time the support for TCP/IP transport, needed for Internet; instead configure your firewall to block the RPC/DCOM port and the Microsoft files/printers/services sharing server ports).

(2) NS Providers (namespaces, i.e. resolution of names to addresses):

(2a) TCP/IP (%systemroot%\system32\mswsock.dll): this contains the DNS client that resolves hostnames like "www.limewire.com" to an IP address. Don't remove it.

(2b) NTDS (%systemroot%\system32\mswsock.dll): this contains the WINS client that resolves Windows hostnames and services for NetBIOS/SMB or with a NT Directory Service: in a LAN, or optionally over the Internet over a secured virtual channel. Don't remove it, as it is needed to access to internal resources of your local host from local applications; instead, you need to configure the Firewall or IP settings to exclude the support of NetBios over Internet connections.

(2c) NLA namespace (Network Location Awareness) (in %systemroot%\system32\mswsock.dll): this supports namespaces needed for wireless or mobile networks, and allows locating a server managing you private domains. Also needed as the base support for PNRP (the secured Peer-2-Peer protocol from Microsoft). It is installed if you have enabled this P2P protocol, but possibly with other components, or with some Wifi connections (I think it is needed for the support of WEP and WPA authentication on WiFi accesses or routers).

(2d) the namespace provider for PNRP cloud (in %systemroot%\system32\pnrpnsp.dll): needed for Microsoft P2P protocol, it allows locating hosts and services in the P2P cloud with their GUID; it contains a search agent and a topology builder; in Microsoft P2P, searches occur only between authenticated servents, through secured channels, that create one or several "clouds" located anywhere on a private LAN, or on Internet, without a central server. Authentication works through hosts certificates; hosts, files or services are identified by GUIDs, and this PNRP protocol allows performing a distributed replication of a virtual file server or service, and locating hosts on this virtual network via their GUID. This MSPNRP protocol is still in beta form (Microsoft has learned a lot from experiments in Gnutella and other P2P protocols, notably when tuning its "topology builder" and optimizing searches with broadcasts in a instable network with lots of dynamic routes; I absolutely don't know the performance of this P2P protocol, but Microsoft does not intend to build it for free file sharing between unidentified servents: it requires using authentic certificates registered in a central PKI authority, with a verifiable identity, so the build topology will always be identifiable by a responsable network owner; apparently not suitable for personnal P2P applications due to privacy issues). The support for PNRP in uninstallable (check the Microsoft documentation about NETSH)

You may also find some other LSP's installed by some antivirus; but beware of LSP's installed by some free "popup remover" bars, as they sometime include their own spyware!

Note that the Windows XP Service Pack 2 contains tools to remove unsafe LSPs and restore the default configuration if it gets damaged.

Also XP SP2 contains a builtin local firewall that is known to cause problems to some Gnutella users: it requires a manual configuration to let incoming connections and datagrams from the Internet to your local Gnutella ports 6346 (TCP required for the base Gnutella protocol, UDP needed for the new Out-Of-Band search protocol).

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The Filter Results hlp a lot in sorting out the returned search results, but I'd prefer the search function to have AND and OR control, so that far fewer unwanted results are returned. At the moment, the seacr function treats all separate words as having an OR relation; in almost every case that I use separate words, they should be AND.

It would be nice to be able to search for folders, if you are for example searching for a full album and a one click to download the whole folder.

I'd like to enter myself my conection speed. I mean, I have a cable connection, but the upload/download speeds that LW has for Cable are not the same as mine. Therefore, I can't configure my optimal upload speed as well.

Another thing: I'd like to see exactly who are sharing the files that are displayed on the search field. Let's say I see two files, and I want to donwload both of them. If they are both from an user that has a slow connection, I'd rather download just one at a time, because if I click both of them, they would go very slowly and maybe I won't finish any of them.

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LimeWire has a separate configuration for upload speeds, and a convenient display of the actual upload speed you will use under the slider control used in the options pane.

The first main option to set the speed is based on download speeds, but it's true that the fast installation wizard only asks for your download speed, ignoring the frequent case of asymetric connections. You have to open yourself the Options panel.

Note however that LimeWire will learn by itself your effective upload speed, by monitoring the uploads your servent has performed. This information is saved in your local "limewire.props" file. So even if the upload speed is set apparently too high because of the download speed setting, LimeWire will adjust itself the reported upload speed based on your upload experience and your past connections and uptime.

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Hi,

I'd love to be able to set LimeWire as standard download helper.

For this it would just need to also support ftp, and then it would become normal for LimeWire Users to let it do their standard downloads (which would then automatically be reshared). I'm sure there are GPLled ftp-helpers.

It would make general adoption of Magnet-Links as download-source far easier, because the most simple magnet-link to get a web resource is simply:
magnet:?as=<url>&dn=<download-name>.

Could LimeWire maybe also process magnets like this one without dwonlload-name, by simply taking the file-name as specified inthe URL?

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Toggling the nested Shared folders to a flat display would be good (it's difficult to see the most popular uploads from an iTunes Music or iPhoto folder since the files are often nested quite deeply).

Since path info is included in search results, toggling the flat display to nested would be very useful for downloading from a browsed host.

I would like to see for Windows XP, the songs to automatically copy into Windows Media Player or itunes. I know on the mac version it automatically copies the song into itunes. They should do that so it automatically copies songs into wmp.

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There was a proposal to share mp3's stripped of their metadata some time ago (only the data-part of the file), so files with different metadata can be merged together. Are there still plans for this?

That way, metadata would be transfered via xml or similar, so the receiving host adds them itself (but search results would still show the files with metadata, only the invisible part: The swarming would be done with stripped files, and every query result would have to have two hashes: one with metadata for older nodes and one for the stripped file-part for those, which support this kind of sharing).

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i want a browser so itll be more convient to use the net and download.... a browser and limewire takes up a lot of memory together...so why not put em together

WOW! A net browser incorporated in LW? And what makes you think that this wouldn't consume just as much cpu? (Don't know. Could be...)
Anyways, that would be a whole lot of work, to make a good browser. And if the Lw devs (somehow) decide to go for it, .... Me thinks that either the price of Lw will increase significantly (for the Pro, if they decide to keep the Basic), or they'd have to recruit an entire dev department dedicated to the browser, because LW is written in Java and browsers (from what I understand) aren't. Plus, in order to keep the cross-platform nature of LW, they'd have to make different versions of the browser too... And I've seen how different a browser can be from PC to Mac (IE).

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Actually, LimeWire integrates a web browser component in the Basic Windows version, to display the content of the LimeShop page (loaded locally). It is an IE component, with no navigational feature. This pane will most probably disappear in the next release. Java has its own browser classes, with limited capabilities (no CSS2 support, no JavaScript, and a still too poort HTML 3 parser, but it is enough to build a GUI interface, as seen in the "About..." scrolling window). But it would be effectively interesting to find a cross-browser support class for Java that allows a clean integration of modern browsers for desktops: IE, Netscape (4, or Gecko-based 7+), the MacOSX default browser, or the excellent (Gecko-based) Mozilla Firefox browser for Windows/Linux/Mac.

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I think that in filter options that the htm/html should also block url links

Selfish and egocentric as I am, I just want a purple and black version of the pink and black skin, without having to make it myself... Did I mention I'm lazy too.

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