Thanks grandpa. I have done that. Got rid of sygate. I even disabled windows firewall aswell and still no change. I have looked at the task manager also when I load limewire and there is no activity what so ever..I also have just uninstalled limewire (version 4.12.10) and re-installed it and it is doing the same thing. I just dont understand. It was working fine just a month or 2 ago. I have emailed the problem to limewire contact us and waiting for a response also but any other suggestions is welcome!