Limewire is giving me fits. Version 4.9.23 wouldn't search for me. I was able to revert to Version 4.8.1. All was fine until two days ago. I clicked on the Limewire icon on my desktop. It came up, but in what I have determined is Finnish. I reinstalled 4.8.1. Finnish again. I went to www.limewire.com to download 4.9.29. I selected English from the list on the right side of the Download page. When I installed it I was asked to select a language. I selected English. But when I ran the program I got Finnish again. I can neither read or write this language.

How can I convince Limewire to download and install the English version?

This is weird.

Learn a new language lol

See 1. Wrong language & how to change it back, & also Change Language (click on link)

One step forward, one step back

I followed the first link to this:

"Go to 2nd on menu (may have a (V) after it) & scroll to bottom & select & you'll see english, select that. You WILL NEED to then close & re-open LW for it to take effect.

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showt...;threadid=30485"

I followed this link and got this:

"select VIEW from the menu > select CHANGE LANGUAGE > select ENGLISH

hope this works.."


Then I followed the second link to a thread that complained about the page being in German. I picked up this post:

"You can also try going to LW's menu View-Change Language & choose your language"

All of this advice didn't help. With the page entirely in Finnish, I couldn't get anywhere as I can't read the language and couldn't find VIEW. I hadn't been able to put an English language page so I couldn't use that for guidance.

The first entry on what I had to believe was the toolbar listed the following:

Tiedocto Nayta Ikkuna Linkit Tyokalut Tuki

It might as well have been Greek.


I decided that LW had put something in my registry that was causing the language problem. I downloaded and ran a registry cleaning program. It asked me to select a language. Of course I selected English. In retrospect, it might have been best for me to have stopped at that point - but maybe not. I had the program scan the registry for problems. It found more than a few. I had them removed. For good measure I ran a scan for unnecessary files and removed what was found.

Then I went to Windows Explorer and removed all traces of LimeWire I could find. After that I went to the Internet to www.limewire.com and downloaded LW 4.9.x. I saved the download and used Windows Add and Remove Programs to install it.

Then I ran LimeWire and saw....English!

Unfortunately, LimeWire wouldn't search. There was a window saying that LimeWire was connecting to the network and words to the effect of not to expect much. I got nothing at all. I had this exact same problem with my first download of LW 4.9.x. This was the subject of a thread I had started earlier.

At that time I was able to find a download of LW 4.8.1 and install it. All was as before. I could use LW again. I really should have left things alone, but no, I had to try LW 4.9.x again. That's when I got Finnish.

I'm pretty pissed off about this experience. I consider it to be entirely LW's fault - for contaminating my registry.

I think I'll try Kazaa or whatever.

The view menu is 2nd from left on menu bar ... if you had have followed my directions more carefully then you wouldn't have had to fiddle with your registry settings. Gads knows what damage you've done now. The above solution has fixed this issue for everyone except you.
But all the same, I'm sorry to hear you now have a new problem. I never play with registry so wouldn't be able to help. Are images too difficult for you to follow? I couldn't think of any easier way to explain how to do things. It's the same solution no matter what language it is... arabic or dutch or whatever. Oh it seems the image wasn't showing. Since the forum had a softw update many of the older images aren't showing any more. I've had to re-add the ones I originally added. I didn't add the german one originally but I luckily have a copy. It's been fixed. Thanks for pointing out the images for those posts were still not fixed.

Yep go get Kazaa & leave us alone. Farewell.

Hey Lord I like the little see yaha guy, Did you make that? If you did what program did you use.

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Please don't forget to effectively close LimeWire COMPLETELY when it asks you to restart.

Just closing the window will not exit LimeWire in the default configuration, but will reduce it to the System Tray: you must then find that "Green Lime" icon, click on it and select "Exit" from its popup menu.

If you lauch Limewire when it is already running in the SystemTray, Limewire will not be restarted, but instead the existing instance running in the system tray will reopne its window, in its existing language.

If you can't find that icon in the system tray, may be your Windows Explorer has crashed sometime, and lost the link to the system tray icon to display it. In that case, CLOSE YOUR Windows SESSION (this will terminate LimeWire running in the background), and relogon with your local user account.

Limewire does not store anything in the registry for the language setting (the only things are inserted by the Windows installer in order ot allow integration with the Windows installer, or separately added by the installer of Java: Limewire does not install or uninstall Java itself, but may provide an access to another installer for Java; Java can, and should, be installed and uninstalled separately from LimeWire).

The Limewire language setting is stored (as well as all other user settings) in the small text file named "limewire.props", located in the subfolder ".limewire" of your local user home directory, or on Macintosh in your "Preferences" folder:
if you have changed the default language, the language code is in a line like:

LANGUAGE=de

for example, that specifies the language as German (German language code for Java is "de"). In absence of that line, LimeWire starts preferably in the language of your local installation (or Limewire will display default English, if you local language currently has no translated resources available)

One other reason why you may not be able to save your settings is that your user home directory is not writable. This should not happen on normal desktop/workstation PC, but it may happen if your user account is stored in a network directory, with local policies (in that case you'll need to contact your local network administrator to solve the problem for your user home directory).

Note: on Windows, the user home directory where the ".limewire" folder is created by LimeWire is NOT the "My documents" folder, it is one folder ABOVE it, and normally contains that folder. If you open the "My documents" icon, and go to the "parent" directory, you'll get to the Desktop (the contents of your desktop is stored partly in a "Desktop" subdirectory of your home directory).

So to go to your user home directory on Windows, open the explorer and open drive "C:", then "Documents and Settings", then open the directory corresponding to your local user name.

This is the "user home" directory that contains:

- several hidden system files that contain your Windows user profile: "ntuser.dat", "ntuser.dat.LOG", "ntuser.ini": don't delete them unless you really want to delete your Windows user account completely!!!

- a hidden system folder named "Local Settings": don't delete it, as it contains various registry data that allows your windows user account to work correctly when you login. It contains several special hidden system files or other subdirectories used as caches for applications like Adobe Acrobat Reader, the Windows GDI fonts cache, plus the hidden system directory "Temporary Internet Files" subdirectory used by Internet Explorer to store its cache of visited pages, and the "History" (possibly translated "Historique") subdirectory that stores small shortcut files to you recently visited pages on the web with Internet Explorer, plus a hidden system directory "Application Data" used by ActiveX controls on the web to store application-specific user data, and a hidden system subdirectory "Identities" that contains several identities used by Outlook Express (each identity has a anonymous numeric directory and contains your mailbox data for each identity profile). Finally, it also normally contains the "Temp" subdirectory used to store temporary files created by various applications.

- a hidden system directory named "Application Data" that contains various settings used by Windows applications. Don't delete it unless you want to restart all these applications with their default settings (some applications may even refuse to start without those user settings).

- a hidden system directory named "UserData" used by .Net applications to store your user settings in those applications.

- a hidden system directory named "Cookies" (possibly translated "Favoris" or other, depending on your version of Windows) that contains small files and a registry of all cookies accepted by Internet Explorer.

- a system directory named "Favorites" (possibly translated "Favoris" or other, depending on your version of Windows) that contains shortcut files corresponding to your "favorite links" in Internet Explorer.

- a system directory named "Start Menu" (possibly translated "Menu Démarrer" or other, depending on your version of Windows) that contains customized shortcuts to installed applications only available to you, and not other users of your Windows system.

- a system directory named "Desktop" (possibly translated "Bureau" or other, depending on your version of Windows) that contains the extra private/unshared elements on your desktop

- a system directory named "My Documents" which is identical to the folder you see when you open the "My documents" folder with the icon on your desktop or from the Start menu.

- additional directories created by you or other applications, that don't show on your desktop or in "My Documents" but are associated to your user profile.

- the ".limewire" directory created by LimeWire where it saves your user preferences.

Additionally, this "user home" directory is the default one used as the current directory when you start a command (or "cmd") window, with the "DOS" prompt line. If you input "DIR" and press Enter, you'll see the non hidden directories above, including ".limewire", just below the two special entries for "." and ".." directories.

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