I'm running WinXP Pro on

PIII 500
384 MB RAM
1.5GB Pagefile
50% of 146GB storage available across 4 drives

JRE 1.4

I have no performance problems with any other program I run, not even when I run OE6, IE6, VS .NET and MSDN .NET all at the same time.

But even if I run LimeWire with nothing else running in the background, Javaw.exe soaks up a minimum of 50% of the CPU usage, and usually bounces back and forth between 65% and 95% usage.

I literally cannot do anything else with the computer when LimeWire is running which makes it more or less useless to me, so I thought I'd see if anybody knows what's going on before I uninstall it.