Hello,

I had Limewire in the past, and just downloaded it again. When I try and search for something it says, Limewire is currently connecting to the network, your search may not return many results until you are fully connected to the network.
I turned off my firewall, windows XP and have left limewire on for about an hour to see if it will connect. It says that limewire has detected a firewall, I'm not too computer smart so I'm not sure what is what, can you please help??????

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Hi
I have the same problem, I have let limewire run all day and still get the currently connecting to the network message and 1 green bar.
My system details are as follows:
1 Windows XP sp2
2.windows firewall which allows limewire
3.448MB ram
4.133 GB hard disk space
5. Mobile broadband
7.I am connecting from home
8. Limewire 4.14.6 and java 1.6.0_02
9. Eircom
10. test worked
11.no
12.First try
13. Brick wall; yes
15. Norton antivirus 2007
16. Ireland
I am not a a computer genius so please be gentle with me and I will do my best to follow your instructions
Many thanks

Some people have had connection problems with the latest version of Java. Try this version instead. Use the JRE offline installer & remove your current Java version(s) before you install this one.
Archive: Download Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Update 11

If that doesn't help, If that doesn't help, delete LW's preferences folder when LW's properly closed. See point 3 here.
Fixes for LimeWire
This will kill all of your settings within options, you'll have to go back through afterwards & reset things. If you're not sure of your settings, go through LW's tools > options & write them all down, so that you can reset things later.

check my post, "i think ive cracked it" for ideas. soz dont now how to link as yet

Thanks, randomkid. These guys are using XP

Open the preferences of your installed java, (Java Control Panel) go to network settings and fillup the necesary fields. This might help.

Thanks a million for all your help, i deleted the preferences folder and it works like a dream

yea i know but i got my vista 1 to work by using 3 diff bits of info from xp and vista users +a good guess.

Tescos mate

Thanks. This helped me!