Hi People - First time poster would appreciate some guidance.

My Limewire Pro connection now seems permanently stuck on 'Starting Connection'. Previously it could sometimes be a little slow to get to turbo charged and in recent months it appeared that it would occasionally not move on from 'Starting Connection'. It seemed that closing down Limewire and restarting the computer would be enough to get things moving again.

However since the turn of the year, returning from holiday, it never gets beyond 'Starting Connection' and restarting it no longer works. i don't want to uninstall/reinstall or upgrade without seeing if there is a more basic issue that needs sorting. Any help is much appreciated.

Technical details as follows - Limewire PRO 4.12.6. Windows XP Home edition on Sky Broadband (UK). 88.8 gb of free space. Norton 360 installed with firewalls set to ALLOW Limewire. Netgear modem (not sure about 'port forwarding' or whatever). Nothing's shared and it all worked with this set up a couple of weeks ago.