hey thanks for all the great advise on this forum but none of the options have worked for me i have a 2 meg tiscali dial up broadband and lime wire worked perfectly for several months untill it crashed and now it downloads at either 0 or 1 kb a second i mean before this happened i was over all downloading between 300 and 400 kbs a second now it is five i have tried uninstalling it and starting again but that did not seem to work so what can i do!!!!!!