Help! Every time I turn on Limewire, i get an error message saying "LimeWire was unable to set up a port to listen to incoming connections. Some features may not work as expected". Because of this, the serch does not work. Whatshould i do???

thank you,
verpop

What's with the spamming of the forums? Huh!!!? 6 postings into unrelated threads. Your answer is in a sticky at the top of this section. Also don't forget to see Forum Rules (click here)

so sorry! i am an impatient person....

anyways, the answer to my question is not found in the stickies (i checked) , maybe im not looking in the right place?

It means a firewall of some description is blocking. This might be your software firewall or an internal NAT firewall in you modem/router. That's why I suggested you check the information in both posts here Connection problems? Check here first! (click on link).

If you have a software firewall (XP has its own firewall) then make sure you only have one running. And then configure it to allow LW full access.

For your modem/router, enable UPnP on it. If it doesn't support UPnP then you may need to forward a port.

thx.

but i have XP. and i don't know where to check if i have a firewall running. where do i check?

Control panels. It sounds like you never configured your XP firewall. Also list the information listed to the questions in post 2 of that link. Otherwise I have no idea what type of set up you have other than XP.

thnx.

oops...

i turned limewire on as an exception, but it still keeps giving that stupid error message. i have a feeling that the problem is not with security. Do you know what it could be?

Security! If not your software firewall then your modem/router. If not those things then it must be your ISP. End of story.

my what?