A fix for Visat/Limewire

Oliasys · #1 (**permalink**) March 12th, 2007

I recently went to the McAfee home page......I signed up for the live free chat tech support....they ran a scan of my McAfee programs and then asked me some questions. It seems the problem all along was not vista but McAfee...they gave me specific instructions on how to uninstall McAfee and gave me a small proggie to further uninstall hidden components and then asked me to go to their website and reinstall McAfee....apparently I was missing 3 small key files....well, I did so......

before I could not connect to limewire or if I did, I would drop and could not connect again unless I reinstalled....after doing as they said....well, I am happy.....Limewire works perfectly fine now and is running in turbo boost mode too....

so if having problems and are using McAfee, thats your solution. And, yes, I am running McAfee and Limewire at the same time and both are working great.

Hope this helps someone.

wondering why · #2 (**permalink**) March 13th, 2007

Thanks for letting us know...It may well help many....Cheers...

Oliasys · #3 (**permalink**) March 13th, 2007

no problem

Oliasys · #4 (**permalink**) March 13th, 2007

It apears many new systems with McAfee installed are missing certain seemingly innocuous files until you install limewire and try to use it......still running fine now....wonder if maybe its a check for them to see who is registered or not.

scoops · #5 (**permalink**) March 13th, 2007

seeing as alot of computers are sold without McAfee installed and are still having issues, i just want to know what was happening specifically to yours?

I don't have McAfee, I can start Limewire no problem at all, but, under no circumstances can i connect.

any information is good information, thanks.

wondering why · #6 (**permalink**) March 13th, 2007

scoops your problem could be with your ISP or your Modem/router may have a Nat firewall...It's hard to say because Vists is so new....
Have you got Java 6...
If you could supply these details we could have a look at the problem and try to help you out....
System details - help us to help you

MoogleMeg · #7 (**permalink**) April 16th, 2007

how do you check if you have java 6?

wondering why · #8 (**permalink**) April 16th, 2007

Go to limewires Help/About limewire, this will show both LW & Java version...

MoogleMeg · #9 (**permalink**) April 16th, 2007

it says java 1.6...now what? thanks!

wondering why · #10 (**permalink**) April 16th, 2007

Well it means you have Java 6....