Limewire won't work(Vista)
 

Limewire won't work for me. After installing it and opening it, it immediately gives me this message:

"Limewire has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available."

And then it closes Limewire. Every time I attempt to open the program, I get that same message and I'm forced to close it. Windows and McAfee firewalls grant full access to Limewire, but I've also tried running it with a disabled firewall. I've tried running it as administrator, I've tried changing to compatibility for XP and for Windows 2000. I uninstalled it, as well as Java, and then reinstalled both most up to date versions. Nothing seems to work. I have Vista.

Any suggestions?

Try this in this order...

Try uninstalling all versions of Java from the add/remove programs and then re-install the JRE 5.11 offline version....
Archive: Download Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Update 11


Then uninstall Limewire using the uninstaller which is found in start > all programs > limewire...then re-install it using the offline installer...To find the offline installer, use the link below > cancel the installer window when it pop's up and then select the offline installer link...
Lime Wire » Download LimeWire

I tried all of the suggestions on this site to get it to work. None of them worked as indicated. I did finally get Limewire to run on my vista box. Here's how:

Delete temp files (Windows folder and Username folder)
Delete Limewire pref's from the Username folder
Uninstall all java from your system
Uninstall Limewire
Restart computer
Go to this site and download (OFFLINE version) of java
Archive: Download Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Update 11
Install java
Locate your Limewire Pro installer
Start Limewire installation (do NOT RUN at the end)
Go back to Add/Remove Programs
Delete the version of java Limewire just installed
You should only have the version you JUST downloaded (5 update 11)
Confirm there is only ONE version of java on your system
Start Limewire

That's how I got mine to run.

user001

p.s. I posted this in several threads that apply to this issue, I'm NOT spamming!