There is no file on his computer like the one you are telling me to look for. I guess I can't send you a copy of what the search page looks like when I search for limewire right??? No place for attachments in here. There are C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator......but nothing with a username nor application data files.

I tried to go to the links that you sent me but I get very confused trying to follow the instructions and finding some of the things it says to do. So trying to be specific. I'm having a hard time following the instructions on any of the links. I guess I just don't have those kind of capabilities to follow them. Dumb maybe!!

Just wondering, could there be a virus in the ocmputer that's not showing up on the AVG be in the computer and affecting anything??? AVG hasn't recorded any virus' but just wondering.

Should I try taking Limewire out and downloading it again??

It has to be there.

Did your read through the whole link (the part about it being hidden, and how to find it) Post 3 & 4 in the link

Also if you have had an older version installed first, then it will be called .limewire

You can try removing Limewire and then reinstalling it but I doubt it will do much good if you don't delete the preference folder. Remember to remove it using the uninstaller and not using Add/Remove Programs.

If you are logged in under an account named administrator then that's your **username**

Also it is possible to attach pictures here. Furder down the reply page it says Manage Attachments.

Alright, this is probably a bit late given that the forum took three days to send me an activation email, but I may still be able to help. I got a problem similar to the one you have described spontaneously on Monday of this week. I found this thread while browsing for solutions, alongside attempting to fix it myself.


Firstly, the symptoms:

1) Upon loading Limewire failed to connect to the Gnutella network. The connection status (bottom-left) remained on one bar indefinately. Restarting both Limewire or my computer did nothing to resolve this and I was still able to run all other programs that accessed the internet.

2) Total messages sent to the Gnutella network (Tools -> Statistics -> Advanced -> Gnutella -> Sent -> Number -> Total) was always one, which was sent immediately upon loading. Usually messages are sent around every 12s to maintain an average of 0.08 msgs/s to ensure that Limewire is still connected. This was also true of other message request protocols including those to other clients.

3) Total messages recieved from the Gnutella network (Tools -> Statistics -> Advanced -> Gnutella -> Recieved -> Number -> Total) was always zero. Usually messages are recieved to an average of 0.03 msgs/s.


The deduction:

Given that Limewire was not sending messages as it should be on a regular basis, there must either be some setting within Limewire that is now telling it not to send messages, or Limewire is awaiting a message that is not arriving and so does not continue to attempt a connection with the Gnutella network. The latter may be caused by the initial message not being recieved intact by the network, again possibly due to a local setting. This is naturally speculation as I am not familiar with p2p program methodology.


The cure?

If you have these symptoms (I suggest you check the statistics, although they may be typical of all errors of this type) the first cure I stumbled across was simply to use Limewire's inbuilt Restore Default Settings feature (Tools -> Options -> Restore Defaults [Button at bottom] ). This was irritating as it removed all custom settings, reset the library and required you to go through the first-time startup process again, but it was easier than running through the entire uninstall/reinstall process. Of course if the Limewire exe file is missing (typically stored at; X:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire.exe where X is whatever letter is asigned to your primary hard drive) you may as well use Limewire's installer again.


I hope that helps someone. If you have any questions I will check this thread a couple of times, but since I no longer have the issue I cannot gather any further information with regards to it. Good luck.

Ikara
{The Guiding Light}