Limewire and XP SP2
 

I have XP SP2 and Limewire 4.1.8 will not launch. I uninstall and reinstall the program and then it will launch one time only. When I try to launch it again it gives me the message to send message to Microsoft. I am not sure if I have firewall enabled or not since I have Norton Antivirus 2005 managing or enhancing my system. Anyone have any suggestions?

Try trashing the LW prefs folder found here: C:/Documents And Settings/your_username/.limewire See if it'll open now. If you can, then do this test (click on link) & tell us whether your result is true/false. SP2 is known to change settings & limits net access. Have you applied any patches for it?

Still Does Not Work
 

I did what you told me to do and deleted the folder in Documents & Settings and Limewire still will not launch.

Salut, update java to 1.5 (take the JRE) http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

Then launch LW.

Bonne chance!

Still No Luck
 

I downloaded the latest version of Java with the above link and installed it and still Limewire does not want to launch. Any more suggestions?

We don't have any messages that tell you to send things to Microsoft. What is the message you're seeing?

Error Message To Microsoft
 

The standard Microsoft box that pops up asking you if you wish to send an error report to Microsoft and you have a choice if you want to send it or not send it.

Sounds suspiciously like a problem with some garbage having been D/Led and installed (probably inadvertantly).

And, the so-called "message from M$" sounds especially like some nasty little app. has been planted in the maching, hmmm ?
In other words, probably nothing to do with LimeWire...

Wonder if the message says that the user is under risk due to inadequate anti-virus... blah blah blah

Norton will not always catch that type of garbage...
Adaware might... ?

You also cannot 'manually' remove stuff like that unless you really do know what you are doing as far as Registry entries...


Last... XP SP2 makes numerous changes to many things...
I have seen Norton Internet Security / A-V settings considerably altered by the install of SP2...

Thinking of Dumping Limewire
 

Well as far as I am concerned if I can't get this problem solved I will dump Limewire and stick with eDonkey 2000 and BitTorrent. Don't need all the headaches that go along with it. The above 2 programs are working fine for me---the problem just seems to be with Limewire.

Finally Got Limewire To Launch
 

I finally got Limewire to launch by right-clicking the Limewire icon and going to properties and changed compatability setting to Windows 2000. Has to be a bug in Limewire where it doesn't automatically launch in XP2.

No comments re: the 'bug' in LimeWire, but be assured with the fact that the vast majority of people on this planet who are using computers do NOT have Windows XP installed as their Operating System.

And, thanks for posting on your discovery of the right-click function... It will undoubtedly help some others !
;)

Running Limeware 4.0.8 under Win2k compatibility mode seems to have done the trick. The really strange part is that I've been running Limeware for nearly two months since I upgraded to XP2. Last week sometime was when I first started noticing that I couldn't start the program.

If I uninstalled it then reinstalled it (not just a "repair") it would run once. After exiting the program and attempting to run it again, Windows display the unhandled application error dialog box.

I wonder if XP 2 and the JRE aren't cooperating?

Idiots At Limewire Still Don't Get It
 

Apparently the idiots at Limewire still don't get it. I just downloaded Limewire Pro 4.2.2 and had to set compatability mode again to Windows 2000. Haven't them fools been able to figure out the bug yet? I have version 1.5.0 of Java.

roybjr -- Unfortunately you're the only person (except Fiend, above) who has reported this problem to us. We're not able to reproduce it, and hundreds of thousands of people have succesfully ran LimeWire with XP & SP2. We've made dozens of changes in order to address XP/SP2 specifically, in the hopes that rare problems like this will be resolved, but until we're able to reproduce it consistently (in a controlled environment), there is no guarantee we can fix it.

Because this problem appeared out of the blue, it is very likely another program that was installed on the computer around that time caused something to go wrong. We're trying very hard to have LimeWire run smoothly on as many computers as possible, but the unfortunate fact is that there will inevitably be some that we just can't get working, atleast not without some clever and motivated customers who can sleuth down the problem on their computer and present a solution.

Thanks.

not a Limewire fault
 

If people would read the "README" that comes with XP SP2, they would know that Microsoft has intergrated 2000 and XP. What does this mean? All compatabilities need to be set to 2000, sheesh. Why? Bill Gates way of getting more money for same programs, LOL! Anywho, people should READ before directing blame towards another (hmm, for example, Limewire) because they were too much in a hurry to do the crap right. Sheesh, I been with Windows since, hmmm, I guess since it was PeepHoles. Needless to say, I am running XP SP2 with NO PROBLEMS!!! KEEP ON ROCKING, LIMEWIRE!!!!!!!!!!