In the file..says its connected but the little connection bar at the bottom left is empty..and the little globe has a wall(firewall) blocking it..i try to look up some music and nothing ever pops up...went to windows firewall_Exceptions...and made sure it was in the exceptions and it is and yet the fire wall is still up...please tell me what should i do next to get the firewall down.

Try the fixes in the thread below. If nothing there helps, post back with your system details.
If LW Will Not Connect

Thanks for the link, but I tried those already. In fact, some of them didn't work for me. Like when looking for a certain folder; it wasn't there. (The Preferences Folder option, for instance.) Tried replacing the gnutella files, restarting Limewire, changing settings, everything but installing Frostwire; I didn't do that bc my computer is running so slowly that I don't think it can handle having anything else downloaded again, especially if I end up re-installing Limewire. My main question now is, I uninstalled Limewire out of frustration. But when I went back to the Limewire page, and clicked on the "limewire pro lookup" link, EVERY SINGLE email I entered was not found!! I've had these 4 emails for awhile, and definitely didn't have any other one that I used. Is there any way THEY can look me up? By name, region, something, anything?? I don't want to pay again! I paid for Pro sometime last year; there must be proof somewhere! Please help. Thanks!!

If you need system details, I have Windows XP on my Dell Laptop. I'm not sure what else you need....

The gnutella.net file's inside LW's preferences folder...so if you found the gnutella.net file then you also found the prefs folder but maybe didn't realise it

Is this the link that you were using to enter your email address(es)?
Lime Wire » LimeWire PRO Support Center

Do you still have the email that LW sent you, after you bought Pro? That will have a link to your personal download page (where you go to download your Pro installers).

Who did you pay for Pro?
If you bought from the official site Lime Wire » Official Website & Free Download, BitTorrent « are your Pro benefits still current? If you bought 6 months worth of Pro, it needs to be less than 6 months since you paid. Did you buy Pro or Extended Pro?

If you did buy from the official site (payment to LimeWire LLC on your CC statement) but your Pro benefits have expired...you won't be able to download a new Pro installer for free.
If you didn't buy from the official site then your email address would never have been in the official database & you won't be able to download a new Pro installer for free.

Within the help thread If LW Will Not Connect is a link explaining the details that we need.

Yes, that was the link I used.

And unfortunately, I searched ALL of my email addresses and somehow could not find ANY emails from Limewire...I know there would be something, be it a confirmation or something. I'm not sure if I overlooked it, or if I accidentally deleted it, but nothing's there.

Now that you mentioned it...I'm pretty sure I paid PRO, not Extended PRO. I guess I'm confused...I thought once you paid for PRO, it was a one-time deal, with no expirations. I suppose that's why my PRO benefits have disappeared. I'm pretty sure I bought it from the official website (bc they advertise on their actual Limewire asking, "Upgrade now to Pro!" and I clicked that link).

So now it seems pretty obvious to me...everything expired. But I should still get a basic connection. I uninstalled and reinstalled out of frustration, and set up the basic Limewire...but I still have a stupid firewall!!

One random question: When I just installed the Limewire stuff, I have 2 icons on my desktop: Limewire.exe, and Limewire 4.18.3. I want to click the second one to run the program, right? The other one is for setup? (Which I've already done. It just confused me bc it's never had 2 icons on my desktop before haha.)

I'm at a loss. Thanks so much for your responses though! Hopefully a resolution is on its way!

Okay there is something going on with my limewire. It is saying that there is a firewall blocking it from connecting. I am not very computer savy and have no idea what to do. My husband and I have turned off the firewalls, that didnt work, we uninstalled limewire and reinstalled it, that still didnt work.

What do we do?!? It was working just fine last week.

Please help!!

Thank you!

I'm pretty sure I got the static IP stuff set up ok. I'm pretty annoyed that I can't figure out the username and password though...the directions don't mention any default ones...and when I ran the program to get that info from my comp, it says the host name is "Brittany," which I used for the username, but what about the password? I thought I was blind and didn't see that the instructions had told us the default username and password, but I even hit "ctrl + F" and typed in "user name" & "Password" and nothing...figures! Why is this turning out to be so hard for me?! I feel like a huge idiot! Thanks for putting up with me :P

Try leaving the username field blank & use admin as the password. Does that work?

yes, that worked! I finished alllll of the steps for the static IP........and wouldn't you know, when I tried to open the internet, it didn't work. I know the last step said that if you couldn't get internet after that, then go back and change your configuration to what it originally was (automatically look for IP)..which is what I had to do in order to get working internet again. What do you think went wrong? I'm seriously getting ready to give up!