I Cant Live Without My Music!! Please Help Me!!
 

I Recently Downloaded The New Version Of Limewire (The Free One) And I Click On The Icon When The Download Was Complete And The Message I Got Then And Everytime Ever Since Was: "Limewire was unable to initializie and start. This is usually due to a firewall program blocking limewires access to the internet or loopback connections on the local machine. Please allow limewire access to the internet and restart limewire"... Ive read other peoples post and the did everything the replies said to do and i still cant get my limewire to work... PLEASE HELP ME!!!

Do you have Windows XP SP2??? If so, you should be able to change the settings in that to accept downloads. If not, then you do have a firewall blocking and I really dont know howelse or whatelse you can do except to try and change ports to adjust your firewall setting to match limewire's.

i do have windows xp... i changed the settings and allowing limewire access to the internet and i keep getting the same message when i click on my limewire... -sigh-... i miss my music :(

Did you read the sticky notes on this forum? Do you have any family member to help you make adjustments??

no... and no

im sorry... yes (nothing worked) and no

thanx for all of ur help but i guess i just have to download something else and lose all of my songs

Hi CameLuv3

Could you tell us what the computer setup is

What Firewall You have installed

What your modem is

Also are you on a network (ie work, university exct)

Sgt

I have windows xp... my modem is a motorola sb5100 surfboard and im at home

Hi CameLuv3

What ver of xp

What Firewall You using (ie windows, Zone Alarm, Norton exct)

Is the modem plugged into the usb ports or on the Lan Ports


Sgt

windows firewall and im not sure about the xp

Hi Cameluv3

Found The Modem

http://broadband.motorola.com/noflash/sb5100.html

Sgt

ya thats it

Hi camluv3

If you have windows xp Firewall go here

http://www.limewire.com/english/content/firewalls.shtml

Sgt

no i didnt figure it out yet but thank you to everyone that helped me

Sphinx

Bear share lite does have spyware in it I use it occasionally after I install it and run it I remove the spyware from my computer. I have yet to find a spyware detector that does not detect in BearShare Lite and when it is removed BS will no longer work. The only other p2p software that I trust to be spyware free is WinMX

grampa... so what should i download then? and is there anyway i can get the old version of limewire back? cause that worked fine for me... PLEASE!! THIS GIRL CANT LIVE WITHOUT HER MUSIC!!

If you don't mind spyware you can run BearShare lite it is a good program it Will connect you to the same Gnutella network. You can find earlier versions of LimeWire there but you must be careful of getting them on the net. LimeWire is a open source code and anybody that wants to and knows how can change it. IE put a virus in it put spyware in it etc. WinMx is not the best program and is on a different net but there is allot of music there. I do not think you will be able to find older version of LimeWire there either but it is spyware free and it is a free program also Below are links for both you will have to choose.

One thing I see nobody has ask you is do you use a router.


http://www.bearshare.com/downloads.htm


http://www.winmx.com/download/

If you must get an early ver of limewire

http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=limewire

but we would prefer to get the new one running

Sgt

Hey Grandpa

Did not know that about bearshare lite, it has never come up in my spyware progs

Thank You, will have to research that one.

I also agree with you all P2P programs are watching what you do


Sgt

i have a router but its not connected yet... im alil lazy in that department

Hi CameLuv3

what ver were you running before that worked

Sgt

Just went to Motorola's customer support

It's Password protected, what's that all about

Sgt

Hi CameLuv3

If you want to keep the music files, that's not a problem just make a new Direcory on the hard drive, then goto the directory your music files were downloaded to, to select all press CTRL+A then goto the directory you created press CTRL+V and xp will copy the files to that directory

Sgt

i dont know why its password protected to tell you the truth... i had the old version of limewire and it worked just fine and always has for me... ya i saved all of my files i just cant download anything new... but thanx for all of ur help SGT!

Hi CameLuv3

Glad to see you saved the files

If you have an older ver of Limewire, then undelete the New ver you've got and install the old ver See if That works

I Have found the 4.9 Series is Having a lot of probs


Sgt

If you want an older version of LimeWire then click on Programs and type in LimeWireWin(I'm assuming you have Windows). I've found quite a few older LimeWire versions by doing this. Although, I prefer 4.9.28.

ok i will do that tomorrow when i get out of work tomorrow... THANK YOU SGT & everyone else that helped me... it really really really meant a lot to me!!

Hi Sphinx

I'm with you

It's now getting to the point of don't upgrade unless you have to, and that's with any program, most of the new programs today seem to be rubbish even if they have been written for Windows, especially the P2P progs, there seems to be problems with just about every new version that comes out, and I use most of them.

Sgt