Uninstall and reinstall Java for XP. It worked for me.

I am having connection probs as well, l/w is installed on a terminal pc in an ad-hoc network (no router) I am running XP home and have tried opening the ports in windows firewall for the terminals address, this has failed misersably. Please help me, i have tried deleting .limeware and so on as well. :(

I think it may be because there's another application that you (or your roomies, but you said they are away) have that uses the same port as LW. However, only one app may use a port at any given time: other apps will have to use other ports (AFAIK).
Bottom line: try changing the port...

Completely uninstall LW: from the Control Panel, click Add/remove and remove LW. Then search your HD for anything LW and delete that. Re-dld the installer and try again. (If it doesn't work, it may be your Java...)

well ive tried every fix....re installed limewire / java several times..opened ports ...delete .limewire .....everything on every fix ......i got "fair" once when i did that purge thing in the limewire directory but that didnt last....

one thing that caught my eye is i gave up on limewire and downloaded ares and it said it detected a firewall but my firewall was turned off LOL any idea what could cause this?

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HI SUSHEEL

I GIVE UP-I HAVE DOWNLOADED THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR TROUBLE CONNECTIONS-FOLLOWED TO A T AND STILL CANNOT CONNECT.I WOULD LIKE MY PAYMENT TO YOU REVERSES PLEASE AS I GIVE UP IN FRUSTRATION.
REGARDS
LYNNE MOORE
ENBE@ OPTUSNET.COM.AU

hi everyone

this is how i made limewire work. in addition to deleting your limewire folder (i deleted + incomplete), DON'T use j2sdk, i had it installed and limewire won't start (just splash screen), and ater 5 minutes it shows the main window and it won't connect. i still don't know where the problem was, but when i installed jre (1.5) it works great.

conclusion: do whatever people said here, and make sure limewire is using java jre, NOT java skd. that's helped me.

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i have installed and uninstalled limewire and it still will not work for me

i click on it and the box pops up and then limewire show up in my task bar and then the only thing that happens is that the "limewire upgrade option box" comes up and then the "limewire tip box" comes up and then limewire just sits in my task bar

it worked for me this morning and now nothing so i just uninstalled that and J2SE runtime enviornment 5.0 update 1 along with it

any suggestions

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it didnt work for me and im using XP. I am also using Aol though.
How do you get it not to start up at the beginning.

Ok, here's the deal, I did everything with my firewall and it still says False:mad: I am running Windows 2000 pro and I still cannot use the chat function! Hell, I even shut my firewall off and it still didn't work! Any OTHER pointers????