Hi Lord OTR,

Many thanks for taking the time to reply. I tried the stuff with incomplete files etc. That didn't seem to help. I didn't get around to trying your suggested fix as it seems to be the case that removing J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 6 got rid of the problem completely. Guess I should have tried this before.

Thanks

Nick

Even i get the same problem, Task manager shows Lime wire using very little CPU, but when i got to performance tab, full processor is being used. When this happens i just format the whole partition and reinstall windows. I have been searching for a solution for long, but no use. When i stop Lime wire, every thing becomes normal. Most probably its a limewire bug. Some times Limewire just keeps accessing the Hard disk for no reason.

I have tried different versions of Limewire, and java, but no use.

run an anti viruse program is seems you have one...

stop being a hog

download 4 or so at a time

change upload and download settings

Ok its not Limewire which slows down the system. Download ProcessExplorer and see which process is taking the CPU. Task manager does not show some processes which are using CPU. Actually, my HDD was on PIO mode and was causing Lots of interrupts to the CPU.