LimeWire ERROR!!!
 

OK by now I am a pro with LimeWire on everything except what I need to know. I've been everywhere, called everyone, asked different questions and searched in different ways on Google n00b style for the answer but to no avail. I'm sure you guys have seen this one before... It used to work for me just so you all know....

'LimeWire was unable to initialize and start. This is usually due to a firewall program blocking LimeWire's access to the internet or loopback connections on the local machine. Please allow LimeWire access to the internet and restart LimeWire'

I have:

Windoze XP Home SP1
Linksys Router (using the Windows XP Wireless Zero Configuration utility)
From HP
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
1.80 GHz
224 RAM
80 GB HDD

SpySweeper
Windows Firewall is off

Optimum Online

Trying to connect from Home

when I go to http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ it says my test worked...

I tried to go to eTomi Pro and FrostWire but they didn't work either... I set up my router to add extra ports for LiumeWire starting on port 1 to port 7000, but it didn't do anything.

So yeah... Help Please!!!

There are a lot of linksys routers. What model do you have?

See this thread: Connection problems? Check here first!

You may need to portforward your router. Instructions here: http://portforward.com/routers.htm

Be sure to set up a static ip address first or it won't work: http://portforward.com/networking/staticip.htm

Just to add to what 6 Pac, has said use Ports starting at 50000 to 65000 in
LimeWire.
Peace.

I have a LinkSys WRT54G v4 and a usb adapter WUSB54GC

Try setting your router to UPnP. See instructions here: http://www.panasonic.co.jp/pcc/produ...ys_wrt54g.html. Then set limewire to UPnP in Tools>Options>Advanced>Firewall Config, tick the UPnP button, click apply. Make sure the listen on port is the one you allowed access through your firewall.

Don't think the usb adapter WUSB54GC is affecting it.

I don't see UPnP anywhere on the Administration Page or on my router for that matter... Windows firewall is off, but if it was on would be allowing UPnP aspects...

[IMG]C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\CaptureWiz\LimeWire Forums\Administration[/IMG]

Hopefully that picture displays, but if not I only see the following categories:

Router Password
SSHD
Telnet Daemon
Scripts
Utilities

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The only thing I see that has UPnP in it is the following on a page entitled UPnP...

UPnP Port Forwardings:

From (WAN) To (LAN) IP Address Proto Description
16808 6881 192.168.1.102 tcp BitTorrent
20306 6881 192.168.1.100 tcp BitTorrent
59509 6881 192.168.1.100 tcp BitTorrent
36553 1024 192.168.1.100 tcp BitTorrent
59220 1024 192.168.1.100 tcp BitTorrent
16464 1024 192.168.1.100 tcp BitTorrent
52282 1024 192.168.1.102 tcp BitTorrent
14790 6346 192.168.1.136 tcp LimeTCP1AC1BAEB77
14790 6346 192.168.1.136 udp LimeUDP1AC1BAEB77


If I click any of these things it will ask me if I want to delete them from the list.
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Then there is a section that says:

Settings

UPnP service X Enable Disable
Clear port forwards at startup Enable X Disable
Send presentation URL Enable X Disable

Yeah the picture doesn't display and I tried to line up the columns, but no luck.

UPnP service is enabled

Clear port forwards at startup is disabled

Send presentation URL is disabled



Also just so you know, that message:

'LimeWire was unable to initialize and start. This is usually due to a firewall program blocking LimeWire's access to the internet or loopback connections on the local machine. Please allow LimeWire access to the internet and restart LimeWire'

Appears at the startup screen and closes the process so I don't even get in. Thus, I cannot edit options in Limewire.

It might be Java related. Try removing your current version of Java from the add/remove programs section and then download and install the latest version from here(Use the offline installer): http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

Then d/load and install limewire using the offline installer: http://www.limewire.com/english/content/download.shtml

If still no joy, try deleting the LW preference folder, points 2 & 3 in this thread: Fixes for Limewire when LW isn't operating as it should! Deleting the pref folder will reset the LW options back to the default, so make a note of any changes you've made.

Let us know how you get on.

Done... Dne.... Done...

No change :( :( :(

You may need to go back to #2 link2 in 6pac's Post and set up manual portforward,

Just tried mickjapa... no luck... this is weird I've never seen in be this difficult for someone... usually they have norton... i almost wish i did

If you haven't already, try the instructions on this page for port forwarding(remember to set up the static ip): http://portforward.com/english/route...G/Limewire.htm

Hi Joefuf.
I Just stumbled on this.
4. Optimum Online (particularly of Long Island) are totally blocking all p2p sharing!!!. See http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...=&pagenumber=1 for just one of many, many examples!!! It seems they are blocking ports. Go to LW's menu bar, Tools>Options>Advanced>Firewalls & change the listening port to one between 49152 - 65535. Press Apply. Then restart LW. Ports 64049 or 50012 seem good for this isp.

Sounds like a plan and the Long Island thing would make sense cause a buddy of mine told me he has to use eTomi Pro... Now I get why... Also so you guys know I live in Morris County New Jersey so I doubt that would be effecting me ... But as I said before...

I just tried this in eTomi Pro (using it cause it at least starts up, but wont connect (I know wrong forum to be posting it in)(I am still trying to get Limewire to work so I am still in this thing)) and it still didn't work.

And that link you gave is literally http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...=&pagenumber=1 the ... screws it up (the ... is the shortened up the original link but it won't work in a hyperlink.)

Anybody got anything?

buddy start your own thread... unless its the same problem i'm having it belongs in another thread.

Moved;)

Joefuf Hi.
Just lets do a recheck
Have you phoned your ISP to rule them out ?
Have you removed all other apps of java before installing new ?
I know the error said poss Firewall but corrupt java gives same error.
Sounds like things have become jumbled.

Follow thease instructions exactly.
So, you need to Go, Start/All Programs/LimeWire n Uninstall all L/W versions.
Do Not Uninstall From Change or Remove Programs.
Re BOOT Your computer NOW.

Now Go to, Start/Search/click on all files n folders/more advanced options/
& make sure, case sensitive, is not ticked. (all other boxes should be ticked)
Now!!, Put limewire in box, (all or part of file name) & click search.
Delete everything found, including Prefetch folder, (I mean everything)
Re BOOT Your computer NOW.

Now! Go to,
START/Set Program Access/Change or Remove Programs,
now completely remove all versions of java.
Re BOOT Your computer NOW.

Now! Use this Link to get JRE 6, Use the off line installer, NOT the (recormended) one,
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
When Download is completed.
Disconnect from internet, close ALL apps n reinstall java.

Now!! Use this link to download latest L/W version using the off line installer
http://www.limewire.com/
If you need help, Shout, If it fixed your problem or not, Feedback helps others.
Peace

1. Yes the isp isn't the problem (my other computer (laptop) connects to lw fine)
2. Java totally removed
3. Lw uninstalled
4. Rebooted
5. Searched with no results (already deleted the preferences folder)
6. Rebooted
7. Java removed and internet disconnected
8. Java reinstalled
9. Lw reinstalled and still the same message

no go... :( :(

Hi Joefuf.
Well my friend If you done all that & completed making a static IP.
then portforwad was done propley.
That leaves your connection setup CD OR your ISP filtering P2P
Filtering can be, say, 5 00pm to 11 00pm so if you tried your laptop at 4 00pm
It would work, then try your home comp at 5 30pm, Nothing!!
Ask your ISP if they say no, for that in writing.
Peace.

I got two new ideas.

1. I found this other site that had a guy with the same problem... he had 2 processes running on his computer which I have also:

NAVAPSVC.exe
NPFMNTOR.exe

supposedly they are both from Norton, but I deleted Norton a few weeks ago... I don't see how that could be the problem, but looking back on the timelines of when my internet went down and me losing LW, I may have tried to delete it at the same time. Now the folders for both versions I had are still in program files, but nothing runs anymore because I removed it. Could this be the cause?

2. The other theory I had was that I am using eTomi Pro, an offshoot of the network I am having trouble connecting to. Maybe this is my problem? For those of you that are unfamiliar with it, eTomi Pro uses the same network for files and sharing and has the same interface as LW. It is probably a similar copy, but still a different program to some degree.

Ahh!! Joefuf.
Sorry for the late reply, My computer power unit blew up.
You never mentioned Norton, I thought I had a link but cant find it, So if you go to the Norton web site, Norton has a brute force uninstaller that will get rid of
all the crap left behind in registry.
Also if you have been trying all sorts of P2P programs, some can interfere with
L/W, So you could copy the installers for these programs to folder on desktop.
Then Do a search for files of these programs & delete them, torrant programs also Don't delete the folder on desktop!!. LoL.
e Tomi is a scam of L/W not a legit app, n I would not be surprised if L/W had
found a way of blocking it.
I don't know if its relevant but bit commit interfered with my L/W.
If the Norton bits left behind is the problem, when you have cleaned everything
you may have to clean then reinstall both java & L/W again.
Let us know how you get on.
Peace.

Well I have bittorrent and it has never been a problem... I released and renewed my ip just in case and updated the settings on my router... then i did the installation of the files:

java_ee_sdk-5_02-windows

and

jre-1_5_0_11-windows-i586-p-s

(first i uninstalled java though... don't worry)

then i reinstalled LW... same message... no change...

I may not have mentioned it before, but i have another computer. Its a laptop that runs on the same wireless network so when I realized that LW runs on it, it occured to me that the router could not be the problem to any degree...

If I installed or uninstalled something that I should/ should have not

!!!Please tell me!!!

If the Java was the problem (which I assume is the next direction you will take me in) give me a direct link to where I need to download the file or files so I don;t make a mistake!!!

Thanks,

Jeff

The extra info you just gave me, tells me you have 2 problems.
One, You should only have one version of java running in Add or remove Programs, so delete all java you see in (Add or remove Programs) & use this
link to get the "Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6"

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

Next, as you have TWO computers on one connection, You must make 2 diffrent static IP's first then, in L/W 2 diff listening ports n portfaward both
Sorry routers are not my bag.
Peace.

Which one do you mean specifically? (I want to get this fixed and last time I got the wrong one):

1. JDK 6u1: https://sdlc4a.sun.com/ECom/EComActi...047D12F790B904

2. JDK 6 with Java EE https://sdlc6d.sun.com/ECom/EComActi...6FDB46D91D404D

3. Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6u1 https://sdlc6d.sun.com/ECom/EComActi...3D41CD6CBF6A2E

The one I will try first it number 3, but 6Pac or you gave me a static IP link anyway so I am good with that aspect.

I went here first actually (sorry. I don't mean to be flooding the forum with my every step)

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Program...Java-JRE.shtml

No go...

I used the static IP site 6_Pac gave me and it didn't do anything. I installed the java from the softpedia link, restarted, reinstalled LW, added the static IP and ran it. No go. Then I restarted again and same result....

Joefuf Hi.
This is the right one,& the official site, USE the OFF LINE installer.
jre-6u1-windows-i586-p-iftw.exe
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
Delete all other java, Before install.

Have you created a static IP for both computers ? if not it wont work
Routers are not my strong subject, I suggest you start a new thread &
put in the title, (How do I portfaward 2 computers,) on ONE connection
Peace.

Well I did everything the way you said to... I called up Linksys and asked them to guide me through the Static IP process for good measure... I installed the offline installer (you gave me the name of the online installer, so I did what would make sense and used the offline one) Then I reinstalled LW... No luck. :( :( :( ..........

So... I don't know what my options are right now. I have my laptop which works perfectly and is also on a static IP and will run LW. My desktop has removed Norton like you advised, is now using static IP, and has windows firewall off. Still, it won't run...

I did notice that my wireless network connection knows it is not being firewalled or blocked, so there is no firewall in the problem. I went through my running processes again and found some interesting ones though that may or may not be a problem:

AOLssc.exe --- AOL's security program, but it isn't in the tray anymore like it used to be so I figured it was shut down

MpfService.exe --- Mcaffe personal firewall service?

MpfTray.exe --- Macaffee personal firewall tray?

SpySweeper.exe --- SpySweeper

SpySweeperUI.exe - - SpySweeper

Could any of those be the problem?

An idea I had in the middle of this whole thing was that you and I could set up a time for us to use a "remote control" program and I would let you remotely control my computer for a time. Then we would know that everything is being done as it should. If you are up for this option, let me know, give me a week or so, and I can find a program for us to use.

Well, well, well...

I gave up hope... In my case this usually means that I do drastic things and don't care about the outcome until I am just plain screwed.

So I went lookign on a basic google search with the exact line of the error I got. Then I came across a few people using a program that managed their virus protection. I thought, "gee I seem to be having a problem related to the sort. Why don't I try doing something like they did?"

So I did.

For all your cases like this in the future, reccommend "Security Task Manager 1.7"

Edit: This software has a 30 day free trial.
*NO mention of cracks on the forum*

Yeah I used pirated software to get this done...

So I went and looked at all the things there that matched the processes I just told you...

Mcafee was the problem...

Somehow (probably my mom) downloaded a mcafee program which I deleted the program of.

BUT I DIDN'T DELETE THE PROCESSES!!!

So I used the Security Task Manager to remove Mcafee

I started up LW and thought how no matter what I was getting this done and it started loading!!!

I couldn;t believe it; I was laughing! This was the best thing I did all day!!!

Thanks a billion mickjapa. Your guidance up to the stuff I did was perfect and saved me so much time.

A month long quest comes to an end.

Thanks again and I hope to help you out some time...

Remember the program is called "Security Task Manager"

It is perfect for this stuff. I will find any open thread and put it in there for people struggling like I was.

See you aroud buddy!

---Joefuf


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Edited to comply with the House Rules.
Warez, copyright violation, or any other illegal activity may NOT be linked or expressed in any form.

Hi Joefuf.
Can I just say, In my experience Cracked programs are usually the beginning of
many problems, In this day n age, there are so many Open source Free programs that can be used safely, its not worth it.
What I use for security is Webroot Spysweeper, Webroot Desktop Firewall,
AVG anti virus,(free one) & Peer Guardian (free) These programs all run with no conflict together.
Security Task Manager, is in my opinion a good tool so after the trial runs out
consider buying it.
Also I would think of reinstalling your XP-OS to clean & get rid of all the errors
That cracked programs cause.
Thanks for the info on, Security Task Manager sounds like a good tool.
Hope it all goes well for you.
Peace.