If they are using different ports then that's ok IMHO. However, they will drain your system resources. Another hidden effect is any pinging done upon each one via anti-file-sharing companies. That constant pinging effect may cause you to lose internet connection when running 3 p2p apps at once. The 3 apps are all java apps and all based on LW code, well at least originally. Java is not super memory efficient and often has memory leaks. Meaning a lot of memory & VM is used some of which should have been released at some point. LW has long been known to have memory leaks, sometimes less than other times. An example of a memory leak is where memory is stored temporarily into virtual memory on the disk, and despite a request to have that portion of the memory cleared because it has become irrelevant/redundant, the information is not cleared after all and instead builds on top of what was there. LPE suffers greatly with memory leaks unfortunately.

Hey thanks for the advice. Currently, Limewire is running better than before; it'll run for 5-25 minutes at a time. So for now I'm just gonna see how it goes and play it by ear, if it starts shutting down as quickly as before then I'll try your fixes.

Again, thank you a lot. I was worried this dead old forum wouldn't get me any replies but I guess I was wrong.

Thanks again.