Warning sent to XP SP2 users:
Microsoft still delivers SP2 as a beta for developers, and there are various issues that are solved differently in each of the different locales. There are small adjustments to the builtin firewall that varies depending on the time when you installed SP2.
For now SP2 specific components will not be automatically updated with Windows Update (which will be delivered automatically and supported officially by Microsoft only in several months).
During that time, we won't recommand to users to upgrade to SP2, unless they know how to configure the rules of its builtin firewall.
Note that this firewall service in SP2 highly depends on the availability of the UPnP components and the DCOM/RPC DCE port mapper. It may not work as expected or may not be configured correctly if either is disabled (there are several still unresolved security issues in DCOM/RPC DCE and in the UPnP and in the Microsoft XML Parser components that may make this firewall fail in its configuration.)
If the firewall can't be configured or its configuration cannot be read by the firewall, the firewall may run in its default mode, disabling the support of incoming ports you have configured.

I had such troubles in SP2 despite I had configured the necessary ports in its interface. If you still get into troubles, first disable the SP2 builtin firewall, and run the network connection wizard to reconfigure it and restart it (the Windows network wizard should restart the necesarry services). Then remap the needed ports. It worked for me.
Don't forget to open the Windows Event Log Viewer in the Administration Tools, to see if some services fail to start appropriately.

Also, there are issues if you have used in the past the ZoneAlarm firewall. When installing SP2, ZoneAlarm may have some of its components incorrectly registered, blocking your Internet connections after some random time.

Another issue is that the ZoneAlarm uninstaller did not remove all of its components in the past, and upgrading to SP2 reactivated some of them, making your Internet connection work unreliably. You can solve this problem by reinstalling ZoneAlarm (the current version, even the trial version), and uninstalling it if you don't need it anymore, as its uninstaller has been corrected.

More generally, avoid using both ZoneAlarm and the SP2 firewall at the same time. Choose one of them only: either disable the SP2 firewall and reconfigure ZoneAlarm or uninstall cleanly ZoneAlarm and configure the SP2 firewall. There does seem to exist some problems when both services are activated locally on the same system. You can experiment such problems even out of LimeWire, when just browsing the web or checking your emails; in Internet Explorer, a web page may be extremely long to appear, or you will see a static page showing the ZoneLabs logo and some tricky comments about how to "solve" the problem.

If this happens to you (notably if you have tried in the past a trial version of ZoneAlarm and then you thought you had uninstalled it), you'll need to reboot XP and reconnect ot the Internet at least to download the latest version of ZoneAlarm just to reinstall it before uninstalling it cleanly.

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I am assuming everyone else is having the same connection problems as me. None of my roomates can connect either, it lingers on poor for a second, then goes back to connecting. I brought my laptop to my neighbors house and i was turbocharged in seconds. I dont understand it. HELP!!!

I got the fix to work in xp. Here are the steps I took. I don't know if you can ommit any...

My XP firewall was turned on, and I'm using verion 4.0.7

1) Followed Limewire's instructions to add Gnutela port 6346 (under Firewall "Advanced" tab)

2) Under Firewall "Exceptions" tab, added TCP and UDP port 6346 (using "Add Port").

3) Under Firewall "Exceptions" tab, added Limewire software (using "Add Program").

4) Deleted my preferences folder (.limewire)

5) Opened Limewire, and it connected.

Hope this helps!

Benchwalla

I tried those steps and I still can't get a connection. The odd thing is it worked fine until a day or two ago. I haven't installed anything prior to those days and I've had SP2 since it was released. I don't understand what the problem could be.

I also noticed that if I completely turn off the firewall I still can't get any kind of connection.

I came here in search of possible solutions for the problem regarding Limewire not connection after installing the new Service Pack addition. I should have not installed it in the first place and checked forums to see people have problems with it, even the eBay forums were warning not to install it.

I've read Benchwalla's solution and will try that soon. I currently have disabled the XP firewall and even disabled Zonealarm when opening Limewire, and have added Limewire to the 'safe-list' on each program. Not to mention I have cable broadband with no problems so far. Let's see if this works *fingers crossed*

Here's some links: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=27403

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...7313#post97313 (bug fix)

http://www.download.com/Downloaders-...1-5127017.html

Just some ideas.

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Thanks for those links! ^.^ Only problem now is I have Limewire saying that it can't open necessary files since my Operating System doesn't support the characters used or something. At least it's actually connecting after downloading that patch, wow! Any one else with a smiliar problem about the OS? I downloaded the Beta version of Limewire by the way, like advised. Not sure if this has anything to do with it.

OK, I have tried EVERYTHING stated, and the only improvement I got was that it stayed connected for half a second more

When I download the purger thing, it says its not a valid Win32 program... Seems like such a bad combination of bad luck for me. Just plain ****... now i gtg uninstall service pack 2

Which OS do you use? And which localized version?
We test it against Windows XP SP2, Windows 98, Linux, Mac OS X.
On English, French, and Japanese versions at least.
Other beta-testers may use Chinese versions of this OS.
They don't have reported such problem.

Which version of Java is installed on your system? If you have Windows, look for this information in your control panel, by clicking on the "Java" icon.

May be you've got a problem because your home directory is in a folder that has some strange characters (spaces in your home directory is OK, but may be you've got a complex user name that made Windows map your name to a very special home directory name).

This may also happen if you have upgraded your OS from windows 98 to NT/2000/XP and converted the FAT32 partition to NTFS, under a distinct OS locale (FAT/FAT32 filesystems do not record the codepage they use to create legacy short names, and Windows 95/98 were known to not always track their codepage correctly, notably if your AUTOEXEC.BAT was deleted accidentaly, dropping the CHCP command needed to specify the system locale before Windows was started). Using CHKDSK may help correct the legacy short names to match with Unicode encoded long names displayed in Windows Explorer.

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