OK guys, BobbyNaini did a lot of work on this limewire reopening. I followed all his steps, but it still didn't work for me! I had 'no' usage problem, infact- winupdates wasn't even there. But I still followed all his steps and continued on. While I was in my regestries, I also did a search for limewire & limewire.exe and deleted all the files I found and continued hitting the F3 key and deleting the regestry. after it finished, I did a search for winupdates, only finding one. I deleted it. After reboot limewire reopened again. Getting P'd off, I did a standard search, 'start' 'search' 'find files and folders' and typed 'limewire'. After the search there were quite a few files & folders found. I hit edit, select all and deleted everything found. Good-bye Limewire. It hasn't reopened since. I reinstalled limewire again from the begining. It worked for me. I encounted this problem after picking up the PWsteal trojan virus. I got rid of the virus using norton. As I have read some of the other problems people are having, I too lost my system32 file. regedit wouldn't open, taskmger would'nt open, and so on. All you have to do is a search for them. Go to search, find files and folders, and type cdm.exe regedit.exe abd finally taskmgr.exe After each file is found, right click on it and hit 'open containing folder'. You then can right click on it and copy, then paste it to your desktop like BobbyNaini explained. then they will work. Then try again to follow BobbyNaini's steps. I hope I have been some help.... GOOD-LUCK