I forgot to mention, its the pirate edition 5.6.2.

I do also remember running the connection fix prog on my first fixing attempt.

I have uninstalled/re-installed java as an administrator (that I felt quite confident would acts as a fix as I know it seems updates on a reg basis) but this has not resolved (and opened LW as an administrator too)

Im not sure when it stopped exactly as Ive used UTorrent to download files since the issue so cannot date when this occured. But its prob about 2 months.

Any more ideas LOTR?