jet228:

Same situation here...and it was doing it before this last upgrade.

Was working fine for me less than 2 weeks ago, I signed on 2 days ago to download a tune and I coudn't connect. I saw the notifier for the ugrade and thought maybe that was why, so I did the upgrade to 4.18.8 and it still won't connect. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling several times to no avail.

Ive ruled out anti virus and firewall issues, as it WAS running just fine with it before.

I'm on Vista Premium

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

If upgrading to Pro, it's best to delete the LW preferences folder as Remoc suggested. There's also the Gnutella file that for some versions of LW was out of date & needs replacing.

Sometimes a combination of these ideas works http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...t-connect.html as it has for me even recently. Sometimes too many incomplete files can crowd out LW from connecting properly. There may be other reasons, but at a guess UPnP is not communicating properly between LW & your modem/router because too many signals being sent out at the time LW is trying to connect, be it due to incomplete files, OOB, Ultrapeer settings, etc.

If still no good; System details - help us to help you (click on blue link) would give us some clues.

BTW Pro support is very slow dare I say it.

BTW do you know what 'fake' files are? Can you recognise them? They tend to crowd the connection & best deleted if recognised.