I am having the same prob. I have vista too. I turned off my fire wall put in the manual port for the router and still no conection...it says it is connecting to the network but it hasn't yet...it used to run fine a couple months ago..now nothing, I have uninstalled and reinstalled 4 times. I'm very frustratted.

to find your songs if you followed limewires default setting our in: click start, click computer, click your documents then limewire

FYI, I was having all the same problems as everyone else mentioned...one bar, couldn't get beyong the "connecting" stage. I just recently purchased the new version of LW Pro. It worked for a couple days then quit. I messed around with the port settings, firewall settings, etc. but couldn't get it to connect. Anyway, I just updated windows with all available updates and it seems to have fixed the issue.

I downloaded LimeWire to my new Dell Inspiron. Worked great for about 24hrs. Now, when I 2xclick from the desktop it gives me the LW Setup page ONLY. Can't go back, or forward and the "Finish" box is whited-out & inaccessable. WTF?
I was thinking it was a LW marketing trick to induce us to buy the PRO version, but reading here, sounds like the pro is just as bad - only now we PAY for it.
Tried LW's page, but - funny thing - no click-thru to post to them...
Funny way to drum up business.

Please don't complain to us about LW drumming up business...the helpers here are volunteers who do not work for LW.

You've posted onto a thread about LW not connecting. As far as I can see, your post has nothing to do with LW's connection to the network.

Go through the forum sections, find the one most appropriate for your post & start again.

No offense, birdy, but you're kind of an idiot. I'm having the same problem as so many other foulks - LW works for awhile - quite nicely, I might add, as i got several hundred good downloads in 24hrs with littls effort - then suddenly I'm stuck in the Setup Wizard.
I've tried the fixes suggested by you, LotR and afew others, but no dice.
If you can't see how that applies to the current thread, maybe you need to get some sleep.
Oh, and if you'll notice, I never stated or implied that anyone here worked for LW - I implied that the bug in the freeware version might be left intentionally to nudge people into buying the "pro" version - which, according to the thread, has happened.

It sounds like I'm having the same exact problem. I've had Vista for over a year and LW connected with no problems till about a couple of months ago. Now, I open it and it says it's connectign and never does, I have also tried everything as far as uninstalling and reinstalling then I just recently switched to LW Pro and it still doesn't connect, I have also tried going back to all of the default settings, going into my computer settings and trying things there, and messing with my firewall configs and still nothing!!
Can someone please help those of us with similair problems?
I think it would be greatly appreciated by all of us!!

If you could do your best to answer these questions System details - help us to help you (click on blue link) then that will help us to see if there's any suggestions we can make. It's difficult to help without knowing the whole set up.