I have been using Limewire for over 3 years and have always had great success finding what I'm looking for. As of 2 days ago, however, when I search video files, I only come up with about 20 matches, all of which are mpegs. If I were to search "Simpsons" in the past, I'd get hundreds of matches in many different formats - now only a few mpegs.

I have followed all of the advice in the stickys, searched for and deleted the Limewire program folder and completely reinstalled, checked my Java version, the whole nine yards.

If I could get some guidance on possibly 1) why this may have happened and 2) how to fix it, I'd be greatly appreciative!

Perhaps you can use 'some' of the advice used here http://www.gnutellaforums.com/limewi...nnections.html. Sometimes it can be related to ultrapeers you are connected to, or people online at the time. There are poor performing or even 'dud' ultrapeers around. Closing & re-opening LW after a few mins is something some people try.

Question is, are those mpegs proper files or spam. Virus thread: Typical virus spam file sizes - Make a note of them (click on blue link to see)