mtntravler

Are you sure you did not have a virus when you saw the problem before because I noticed you said that when you uninstalled Norton it messed up your computer. I have run Norton for many years. I have un installed it and re installed it many times over the years. I currently run Norton on 2 computers and avast on one. 2 of the have both on them but I only enable 1 at a time but I use both to Scan weekly.

Any way the only time I have had Norton mess anything up is if a virus got in and corrupted it. There are hackers out there that target Norton since Norton is the most widely used anti virus on the market. If you get a virus that is designed to disable Norton before the virus has been discovered by the anti virus developers it can cause allot of problems. This has happened to me before where I have got a virus before there was a definition for it and it corrupted Norton. The virus corrupted Norton and disabled system restore and inbeded itself in the registry and Norton the only way to get rid of it was to reformat and re install. Which to me is no big deal I do it regularly.

scottyboi

Service pack 2 was the last Major security update for windows PX. It came out a couple of years ago. If you haven't updated to SP2 you probably should you can download it from Microsoft.com.

You may want to un install LimeWire after you un install it look in your program files and delete anything that says LimeWire. Default settings for LW are C:/Program Files/Limewire if there is a limewire folder delete it.

Now go to Start/Run and type in regedit in the run box it will open your registry go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and expand it. Go to software and expand it look for the LimeWire file if you find one delete it. Now look for magnet file if you find it delete it. Now close your registry.

Do a virus boot scan with Avast when you first install it it will ask if you want to do a boot scan check yes then re boot. The link below will take you there.

http://www.avast.com/eng/down_pro.html

Now go to the link below and download java and save it to your documents or where ever you save files. Once you have it on your hard drive go to where you saved it and click on it and install it.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html

After you install go to LimeWire and get LimeWire save it to your hard drive. Once you have saved it click on it and install it. The Link below will take you to the official site.

http://www.limewire.com/english/content/download.shtml

Once again I do not know that this will work I am guessing you have a bad install but I do not know that for sure. If you do not completely understand the instructions of editing your registry or don't feel comfortable doing it, Then don't do it you can really mess things up if you mess up in the registry.

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