I make my living installing Windows systems. I have had no problems before this week installing 4.12.15 on a whole host of systems all identically configured with regard to what is being discussed here.

That said, I am stymied as well, as this is EXACTLY what is not happening for a system I am nearly done with [typing this up on the affected machine] while surrounded by a multitude of systems, all of which are working just fine.

I can only assume it's something we are all dealing with that once we find the common denominator, the problem may make sense to a Limewire maintainer, etc. Here is the list of the machines I have NOT had a problem with:

Various PIII, P4, Pentium M ThinkPads, Athlon XP 1700 through Athlon XP 3000 systems.

The ONE system to date I have the problems described here exactly on:

Athlon AM2 6000+ with 2.0 GB DDR II-800 memory Tyan S2925A2NRF mobo, ThermalTake Big Typhoon VX cooler [2K rpm setting], ATI X1650 PRO 512MB video, Hitachi 500 GB Sata II, PLEXTOR 800A, Win XP Pro all patches, all else works fine

I work off of a script, so the installs are basically identical other than the various sys-dependent drivers. Java is 1.6U2. LimeWire 4.12.15 installed last.

cjl (newbie here, old hat in usual places)