Lock-up with Windows Me

Every time that I try to use Limewire 2.5, it completely locks up on me. I have successfully downloaded some songs but it always ends up freezing. Not even cntrl/alt/del works. I have tried uninstalling and installing but still the same problem. Today it even locked up when I went to their website to try and find support!?!?! I do not have this type of problem with anything else. Anybody have an answer...........PLEASE?!?!?!?

[irregularjoe]

do you have a good install of java JRE?. You might want to uninstall the Java JRE using add/remove. Then uninstall LW same way. go to www.java.sun.com and d/l Java2JRE 1.4.0 se. Install it and then redownload LW. I had to do that a few times before I could get things moving smoothly.

My XP locks up so bad with limewire that I can't even get any response from ctrl+alt+del. And that's one hell of a lockup. Java in it self does not lock up that way, unless the code tries to do some really dirty shi*.

A good remove of limewire and a manual delete of all that belongs to it should solve your problem. And then you don't have to stand those evil pop-up commercial adds and junkmail either.

Anyone feel like starting a GNU-wire project using C instead of java and making it totally GPL?

_-Z-_

Irregularjoe,

I have just enough computer knowledge to be dangerous. All I could find on Add/Remove was Java Runtime Environment Standard Edition v1.3.1_04. Is that the one I'm looking for or is it for another program?

[bobomon]

Originally posted by GreenLantern
Irregularjoe,

I have just enough computer knowledge to be dangerous. All I could find on Add/Remove was Java Runtime Environment Standard Edition v1.3.1_04. Is that the one I'm looking for or is it for another program?

Here you go... you want to download the item under the JRE column... Sun JRE 1.4

irregular joe,

OK. I removed my old Java and downloaded/installed the new Java....it still locks up completley. I did, however, discover purely by accident that if I am playing Solitaire while I am downloading songs, it has not locked up yet. BUT I have to have the game running before I start Limewire. If I try to do it the other way around, it locks up. Any further advice or do I need to start preparing for a format job? Thanks again for the help.

[irregularjoe]

did you reinstall a new LW after the Java reinstall?