I have been tearing my hair out since I got this laptop in October - my last one, brand new, with XP, was stolen from a hotel room - it was 1 month old. Anyway, I ended up with Vista because it was all I could find.

I can honestly say, I have tried EVERYTHING and NOTHING would work. Uninstalled Limewire and Kaspersky (antivirus), disabled Windows Vista security, gnutella file.........oh, the list goes on and on. I could never keep it loading long enough to even access the menu to check the settings - it would lock up requiring an ctrl-alt-del to get the program to close.

What I finally did, after waking up in the middle of the night and Limewire is where my mind went.....I wondered what version was on my XP desktop, since it worked fine....

Found the download copy I had backed up, uninstalled newest version of Limewire, removed the files in registry, and then installed the OLD VERSION OF LIMEWIRE. The one I installed is Pro - 4.10. 9 Pro.

IT'S WORKING!!!! I can't begin to tell you how many hours I've spent trying to find a solution to this. Why some people can run LW on Vista easily and others can't, I don't know, but if your head's bleeding from bashing it against the wall, try this solution and see if it works for you.

Best of luck.......

Pam