Hi there, my name is Jay, and I have a SERIOUS limewire/firewall issue.

It started long ago when, all of a sudden, Limewire stopped connecting to the network. I reinstalled Limewire, and nothing. I left the country for 8 months, and now that I'm back, I've tried to fix it again. I've disabled Windows Firewall, I uninstalled McAfee. Then I re-enabled Windows Firewall and reset all the exceptions, including specific port-watches. For one day my Limewire worked again. This was on my routed computer from the main computer, through a D-Link DI-604. Now I've left it alone. I went on my main computer to see if Limewire worked here, and it didn't. So I installed an earlier version of the program, did all the things I did before... and nothing.

Then I did a search on my computer to see if I had any other third-party firewall programs installed. After I searched, once I went back to my control panel, Windows Firewall was completely GONE. Now when I click on anything having to do with my firewall, it won't even give me an error message - it just won't load anything altogether. I've looked online for shared access fixes, the link from support to reinstall windows firewall. Now my firewall is permanently ON.

1. How do I get windows firewall back, and do I need to get it back?
2. How do I fix my settings so that I may use limewire again?


Thank you guys SO much. I just don't know what to do anymore!


Specs:
Windows XP Home Edition
Service Pack 2
D-Link DI-604 Router