LIMEWIRE made my pc slow :(
 

hey, when you go to download Limewire from limewire.com is meant to redirect you to download.com?? ....I downloaded this and it worked fine... But after 2 days my computer started running very slow, and i found that my CPU was astranomically high... and that limewire was taking up most of it.... Did i download the official limewire pack or is it a conned version?........... I currently dont have Limewire and I`m missing it already ..

WHY does Limewire make my pc so slow.... Kazaa, Bearshare... and all the other **** ones dont work... but limewire did apart from making my pc like a snail.. :( :( :( :(

Would you provide the following information.

Computer type and CPU
Operating System and sp
HDD
RAM
Firewalls
LimeWire Version
Java Version
Connection type (Dialup,ADSL,DSL,Cable)
Moden type and model no.
Router type and model no.
Who is your Internet Service Provider

I believe I read here in the forums that was a valid re-direct.

Thank you

I have a packatd Bell with 2.80 GHz CPU i have windows XP (home edition) (service pack 1) my HD is 107GB and has 43.8GB free space, I have 384MB RAM, I have 2 fiewalls.. 1 is the standard firewall u get with a BB connection and the other is with Norton Internet Security 04` , But i permitted all access for Limewire and the Gnutella Network. my limewire version is 4.8... dunno my Java version.. (well watever is installed with LW 4.8 i guess).. I have an ISDN connection .. dont know moden type or router... my internet service provider is Wanadoo...

:P

!!!!!!!!!! i dont have limewire anymore!!!!!!!!! i got rid of it when i realised it made my pc much slower!!!

You can find your java version in XP start>control panel>add or remove programs. It should be listed as J2SE runtime enviroment 5 update 2

I'm not sure what was causing the high CPU usage. I don't suffer that problem.

When was the last time you did any system maint. ie. disk defrag and disk cleanup? Might help to do that aslo.

My Java version is 5.0, I havent defragmented the drive latelty cos it already has 43.9GB free, I done a disk cleanup not long ago and im doing it right now.

ahh its update 1 not 2 aswell

Hey, the high CPU usage... well i have like 53 processes without running any programs.. so maybe all them are casing this?

Hmmm I just checked my Task Manager I have 54 processes running, and my CPU usage is appx. 2% - 17%.

I have an 80 gig hard drive, but in reality I only get about 72 gigs out of it. It normally has 30 gigs free, so I defrag it twice a week now. It makes the machine run quicker and more efficently.

It might be you have processes running in the back ground. ie Peer Guardian 2. Before I upgraded the previous version was constantly running the CPU at 47%. That was also before I upgraded the java to update 2. There might or might not be a relationship there.

It wouldn't hurt to update your java, and defrag your hard drive.

ok thanks for that, I do have loads of processes that run in the backround ,Some of which i ended.