Well... there seems to be a pattern here. get rid of Mcafee and it works!

I am a bit concerned, however, that people are more interested in downloading stuff and not about virus protection.

Well.. good luck to everyone!

There is no need to run without Virus protection You can install Avast Antivirus it works fine with Vista and LimeWire. Avast is free and you can get it at the link below. Avast is among the top rated Antiviruses

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Great suggestion. Thanks.

yea i dumped McAfee and works great now!!!!

cheers, got rid of mcafee n it works great, cheers gateway lady ;)

:bangh: :bangh: :bangh: I am about to go nuts!! I have tryed everything and can not get limewire or 360 share pro to work at all. I have a new computer with Vista premium preinstalled , AMD x64 dual core, AVG free anti virus, I disabled windows defender, reinstalled Java se runtime environment for vista, allowed limewire and 360 share pro through windows firewall. When I click on limewire I get the splash screen then nothing. When I click on 360 share I get nothing at all. Please Help. I'm lost without my limewire!!:confused: :confused: :confused:

Try un-installing all versions of Java and reinstalling Java6 using the offline installer then install LimeWire.

Help!
 

I tried uninstallin the privacy thing o whatever and limewire still dosnt connect and takes my internet, how can i reinstall the security back on to my comp?

uninstall of McAfee worked for me
 

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I just wanted to say that the Uninstall of McAfee worked for me! I had a brand new Toshiba Satellite notebook that came with Windows Vista Premium installed and Frostwire wouldn't work at all for me with the same symptoms (blocking / locking down / hijacking the Internet connection). Removing McAfee removes the problem!

I put the fix on my Vista Review site so hopefully we can help others.

Also - to anyone that reads this, I'm trying to log a list of software that no longer works in Windows Vista on my forum, so if you know of any other P2P related file sharing software (or any kind of software) that doesn't work in Windows Vista since you upgraded - please let us know!!

Thanks! The more info we collect, the more people we can help get their software working again - or help decide whether or not to make the crazy jump by upgrading to Vista!

Do I have to remove the whole thing? I've already removed the firewall n the privacy protection n still doesnt work... I really dont want to remove the anti virus, and if I do have to remove the whole thing what r the best alternatives?

Yes, you have to remove the whole thing. Then get a stable and free anti-virus like AVG FREE instead of that McAfee bloated piece of crapl

What about the other McAfee features like email and IM protection, file protection, disk scans, and all that other stuff, how do u make up for it?

Most all AV do that

hi just a quick question I am running vista and nortons 2007 and yesterday i downloaded some songs and they were playing fine then today i got up and they had all been zipped and when i tried to unzip them it says file is corrupt from transfer and wont unzip. and the few that weren't zipped say" limewire will not launct the specifeid file for security reasons" please help

I would delete them completely, and try to get them again from different sources.:cantseeyou:

Issue SOLVED!!!!
 

Three things:

1. Unistall your McAfee Firewall, (Privacy Service and Spamkiller in case you have it) but do not ever unistall McAfee Anti-Virus.

2. Right click on the Desktop>Personalize>Windows Color and Appearance>Select Windows Vista Basic and click OK.

3. Download LimeWire Beta 4.13

Beliveve after this you'll be ready to go.
good luck!!;)

it is definitly mcafee. Ive been trying to figure this thing out for two days. and i took your advice on uninstalling mcafee. im so happy now. YOU KNOW WHERE MCAFEE CAN GO! (to the recycle bin!)

Doesn't support Vista x64 Aero
 

I've been running Vista for some time with no limewire problems except for not being Aero compatible. I get switched to Windows Basic from Aero every time I start limewire. Running Vista Ultimate x64 2GB Ram AMD 4600+ so it's not a system issue.

Try the LW 4.13.2 Beta...a few people have said that the Beta versions work with Aero :)

help me please!!
 

i have vista and limewire will come up it just will not find anything i type in is there anyone that will help me with it !

how do i do this i am really bad with this sort of thing

which version of java should i get

which version of java 6.0 should i get

The "Offline" installer for Java is always the best one to use. The regular online installer which installs over the internet not infrequently results in unreliable & corrupt installations. ie: you will see two options, one is much larger than the other & is perhaps 13.92 MB to download. Choose the large one (it says Offline beside it). After downloading, open it & install. :)

As for which version of Java 6, not sure. I am not a Vista user so can not give advice on the most reliable release so far for Vista. ;) Download Java software from Sun Microsystems

I can't install limewire on vista, I have adifferent e-mail than when i purchased limewire 4.16.7 pro. How do I change my e-mail @ limewire?

after reading this I uninstalled the last java update and limewire works again thank you so much guys