Hi Birdy,

Have tried the uninstall limewire and java in every way possible so it is not that.

I have to admit the forums you pointed to are beyond my skills ...

But I did search for the Allchars and I do not have it on here as a file unless this is somewhere in XP that I do not know about (more than likley).

And the Java issue they were talking about should not be an issue as I have tried to get limewire working with many versions of the offline downloads.

Any other ideas out there ...

I have hunted through Task Manager to find any programmes that I do not know of but there is nothing outside the norm that I can see (not a full computer geek but put all the file names into google ... lol ...) They all look to be either drivers for this laptop or windows files or avg files ...

Needless to say I am dissapointed that this will not work and that there so far has not been an easy fix ...