Hey Birdy,

I thank you for your help. You say "Did you make sure that LW was properly closed when you deleted the preferences folder & also when you replaced the gnutella.net file?"

What and where is the gnutella.net file? I have not seen any reference to this anywhere else.

I am pretty sure I am going to give up on Limewire. The internet and music should be a FUN place to be...

Limewire is nothing but frustration and anger.

Macaffee keeps autmatically updating my firewall with new downloads... so that is not going to change.

I tried removing the old java and installing the Java 1.5 - as I was told to do.... what happened? Limewire would not open with 1.5 ERROR and said it needed 5.0 or higher to even open.

I did all the steps, jumped through the hoops. Unistalled, reinstalled and what happened.... NOTHING> >>>>>>> I still have one bar and cannot sign on to limewire.

Does limewire have a phone number for me to talk to a live human? Obviously I am not able to get back online. LOL

Does anyone have a completely different site for me to look at?

I surrender. I think it is best I just give up.

Limewire.... after working on this for more then 10 hours I am just more angry.

I posted this link earlier: all of a sudden will not connect (a fix to try)
& when you said you'd tried everything, I assumed you'd tied all the fixes in that link (including deleting the prefs folder & replacing the gnutella.net file).

It's up to you whether you want to try those fixes or not

There's no live LW support. Pro users have access to email support but that's not live & I doubt they'd be able to help you more than we can here, anyway.

Did you make sure that LW was properly closed when you deleted the preferences folder & also when you replaced the gnutella.net file? gnutella.net

Please understand I am not an IT specialist.

How do I delete the preferences folder?

How do I located the gnutell.net file?

Once found, how do I delete the gnutella.net file.

Once deleted, how do I replace it?

Thanks for your help.

I read you link thank you.

I may need a very basic, super basic step by step process on how to somehow be able to connect with more then one bar.

Thanks for your help!

"birdy" is correct. All I had to do was sort out the Java versions.

I quickly found this thread after having exactly these issues. I knew it was not a FW issue because other PCs in the house all work fine behind the same FW. All I did was uninstall ALL older versions of JAVA in the add/remove programs of the control panel. I ended up with version 6 release 3, the latest and I am now back in the game.

Many Thanks birdy!