Good news: 1 out of 5 lights are lit in the connection bar. It partically helped. But not enough to be able to download music

How to find the apps folder is in the very first post of this thread, so there's that.

Also, if you're not using an Administrator User Account in Vista, you will probably have some problems. Mainly the whole one green bar of connection issue. Here's how I got past them.

- Uninstalled Limewire
- Changed the user accounts to Administrator
- Reinstalled Limewire
- Set up LW in each account
- Removed Administrator from the other accounts

Also, make sure you only have ONE firewall going. If you're using McAfee and Windows Firewall (for example), one needs to be disabled.

Good luck!

I did this and it allowed me to set my prefs. When I go to Tools>Options the options box flashes on the screen and then goes away. I am running 4.16.3 Any thoughts??

will using this Pref folder trick help with my problem? I'll get downloading a song, and around 80% complete i get a Blue Screen, saying "windows has encountered a problem and is shutting down" and my computer restarts. after it restarts a window comes up saying "Windows restarted successfully after being shutdown improperly." it also has a "Show details" button, and when I click it shows that the files causing the error are in my "...\AppData\Local\Temp\" folder. Will using this "delete LimeWire in Pref folder" trick help in my problem?

Something sounds like it's corrupted in the AppData\Local\Temp...

Definately give the preference folder a try...

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I tried the Pref folder trick, and this problem still happened again. But i think i got it now. When it told me the errors were in the "...\AppData\Local\Temp\" folder it also told me of a error in the "..Windows\Minidump" file. thinking back this hadn't happened to me at all UNTIL i tried downloading a certain song, and midway thru, the blue error screen came up and all this started. after restarting and getting back on LimeWire, the song finished, but LimeWire popped up a box telling me this song might be a corrupted file. I deleted the song instantly, but it had already corrupted my files, i guess. So when i started checking over these error files that windows was telling me was causing the crashes, the"...Windows\Minidump" file showed that it had been created at 11:25 am the previous day....... the same time i got my first crash from the corrupted song i downloaded. I deleted the entire Minidump file, and everythings been smooth since.

Yup, sounds like you got hit with some malware. Try finding a program that will help you find malicious software types (like Spybot: S&D) and also run a full scan with your virus software.

Good luck!

What is going on with Limewire right now is TOTALLY unacceptable.
I followed Grandpa and for the first time Limewire loaded with the message of "loading internationalization support"

HOWEVER, it would not connect to the network.

So I closed it and restarted and now its back with the internationalization loading screen and stuck there.

This is ridiculous, I hate this bloody fire and as soon as Ares starts working with Vista im going back to Ares.

How can people pay for something that doesnt work?!?!?

Why should I have to go through hell to try and make something work.

This is crazy.

Can someone also better explain how to find the .limewire file because I just cannot find it. Ive searched for it followed the instructions here with no luck. What could I be doing wrong?

not sure if I need start a new spead, but here is my situation, I used LW with W XP no problem at all, but after have a new laptop with Vista, things changed, LW stop working after I download 5 songs, it searchs but no result come back,connection was OK, had tried Gaundpa tips, didn't work, so I uninstall , re install, but same things happen again, it stops work after I download 2 songs, tried Gaundpa tips again, this time it works, thanks a lot, but I noticed something, when LW just search no result back, the icon for connection level was in red, and icon for sharing had a brick wall showing, can anyonw tell me what this is about?

OS: Vista Premium
Firewalls: Windows Vista
Ram: 2GB
Disk: 120GB
Connection: Broadband
Modem/Router: Netgear - wireless
From: House (UK)
LW Version:4:16.6
ISP: British Telecom
Brick Wall: Yes
Anti-virus: windows live one care

hi to everyone.i have windows vista and i'd never had a problem using it.but now when i double-click the desktop icon it doesn't even opens the program.it just shows the limewire picture and then nothing.i tried to reinstall it,i downloaded the latest java definitions the newest version of lw but still nothing.what can i do?