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This might help: Fixes for Limewire As long as it's not a firewall or modem/router with a NAT firewall or you're connecting thru a company or school network which all may have different solutions. Oh & also hoping your isp is not filtering or blocking p2p use.

Knowing these things generally help with solving these issues: Can you give us a total desciption of your set up:
1. Operating System version (eg: Win 98),
2. What firewalls you have,
3. ram, 4. HDD space available,
5. Connection type,
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers,
7. Where are you trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.)?
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O.K. I'm new to this so i may not get this right but i'll try
op sys: Win98
no firewalls, that i know of
ram: 160
hdd space available: 4.09 gb free (i think) I don't know if thats right
Dial up connection AOL
connecting from home
I hope thats right
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Thank you, you did well!

There have been known issues with AOL users. Unfortunately I don't know or can't remember them all. But here's one: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=23895
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Thanks. I was hoping i did that right. I got a pop up from aol saying that one of my main index files was damaged, so i re-ran aol and now limewire is fine. weird. I also noticed that if i click limewire icon on the taskbar it won't connect but if i click limewire on my desktop it works great. Thanks for the help i appreciate it
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Ok so here's the deal. I'm on a school network and couldn't get limewire to work. I kept trying the purger.jar file again and again and couldn't get it working. And then, I tried it one more time and low and behold it started working!!! But then, I must have changed some setting or something and messed up the connection - now I'm back to where I started. I can't get it to connect AT ALL. I actually downloaded Morpheus and that works fine except that the downloads are much slower. Here's my get-up, please please please help me out - I've gone through all the tips and have even reinstalled my network drivers - nothing has worked!

1. Windows XP - sp2
2. XP firewall - have both gnutellas and limewire as exception
3. 256 mb of ram
4. 40 gigs of hd space free
5. Connection type - T1? - ethernet
6. Realtek 8193 Ethernet NIC, Belkin 4port router
7. Where are you trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.)? School network
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Hi. Whenever I try to connect I it always just says 'connecting' in the corner. I've left it on for hours.

Any Ideas?

1. Operating System version (eg: Win 98),
Red HAT 9

2. What firewalls you have,
Unsure. How do I check?

3. ram,
512

4. HDD space available,
20 GIGS

5. Connection type,
Cable

6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers,
Unsure

7. Where are you trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.)?
Work
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If you're connecting from work, then you'll be connecting from a network right? Chances are the main machines are running xp for max protection. Unfortunately you won't have control over them or the connection devices. If you might have some control then please say.

Red HAT 9? I thought that had something to do with Linux? But I know nothing about ... lol

Do this simple test for us. Using your browser go here: http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ The page should say ‘Test Page was a Success’. What happens when you go there?

You can try some of these fixes but using win 98 they won't all be applicable: Fixes for Limewire Leave LW on for some time to give it a chance to connect.
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Hi.

The page : http://www3.limewire.com:6346/
gave me :
Your test page was a success!

I updated my java version, used this :
http://www.limewire.com/english/cont...ads/purger.jar
to delete my preferences and left the Limewire alone all weekend to see if it would connect and it didn't.

Any other ideas? Is there any one else I could ask?

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I ran the JAR file as recomended and it deleted my Limewire settings. LW then prompted for new settings but now cant see any Shared or Incomplete files even though they are in the Limewire directory. Tried reinstalling but still have problem. Please advise on how to recover.
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Deleting your LW Preferences will mean that you'll need to reset your option settings. It's usually a good idea to make a note of your settings before you do this. If you know where your downld folder is, then just re-direct LW to use that folder again as before. ie: Tools>Options>Saving If you originally chose default then it should be the same.
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