hi i went to C:/Documents And Settings/your_username/.limewire

but i dont know what my "limewire preferances directory" is.

can anyone tell me what that is please? i havent been able to connect for weeks so i'm trying this method

thanks

Delete the .limewire folder. Do it with LW completely shut down.

In the newest versions it's located at C:\Documents and Settings\"your account name"\Application Data\limewire. Application data is a hidden folder, so you have to set your folder options to show hidden folders. Either location you delete the limewire folder.

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Thanxxxxxxxxxxxx, Sdaswani!!!!... It worked for me too!!!...

I only get the one green arow and four red, Always says connectiong? this just started, It is not the fire wall, I think it is Bell south I use them for DSL, Im going to try dial uo from alo since I have that account as well and see, at least I'll know if it is the Bell South router or the ISP? any one have any other thoughts? I'll be back , Thanks Dan

OMG....this worked!!!

I'm using windows xp and deleted .limewire and after initializing everything, it worked!!!

Thank you SOOO much!!!

Judy

I have now sent 3 e-mails to limewire and still no reply. I had the free download of limewire and all seem to be working fine. I then paid for the service of having faster downloads. Now I can't even connect to get anything downloaded. I have a wall across my map. I have tried everything I can to get rid of it but as yet no joy. Everytime I go into limewire help it keeps coming up with solutions for XP. I don't have XP I have Windows ME and have AVG free virsus program. I had this before and it worked well. I tried to connect today and finally got a very strong signal even with the wall across my map, but it did not last very long. Can somebody please help me, as I am having no joy with limewire even though I have paid for their service.

Hi Alexmeme, I'm not an expert but I'm going to tell you what I did when I had your problem, If it works let me know... and as of now I haven't had any more problems.
First I went to the Firewall settings (Windows firewall, that is) and added as an exception my Limewire.
Then I went to the antivirus settins (In my case avast!) and did the same thing, and after that I restarted my computer.
- All this was done following directions from one on the threads from this site, but I don't remember which, and that alone was supposed to solve my problem -
Still however I got the wall in front of my world, so I went to another thread and did what it said, which was: go to Limewire Tools/Options/Advanced/Firewall config there you have two options Listening ports and Router Configuration. On Listening ports you shoud have a number, and on Router configuration you should have checked the option Use UPnP so, check the option Manual Port Forward and write there the same number from the 'Listen on Port section'.
Restart your limewire and see if it helped...

I ordered limewire about 3 days ago!!! Everytime I try to look up an artist or video it won't allow me to!!! It says that it's still connecting!!! I don't know much about computers so please guide me on what I need to do!!!

How do I find my firewall???

Well, i've done this fix before.

Deleted .limewire and Limewire in Application data about a months ago when i had a problem exactly like this (not loading up at all, limewire load box pops up then disappears and nothing happens) but now i have no .limewire folder in my documents and settings to delete!

delete the application data limewire ok, but it still doesn't fix it. Reinstalled limewire and all my java stuff to get the recommended version and nada.

Oh im using Windows XP btw.

Any help would be much appreciated