LimeWire opens, then shuts down immediately!! Help!

Hey everyone,

I'm running on XP Pro, limewire ver 4.9.28 with J2SE update 4 and I have a gig of ram... but unfortuantly no antivirus software (I know I know I'm getting Norton soon). So the other night (recently after dl'ing J2SE ud 4) I tried to open limewire and the startup (loading) screen freezes, turns white, stops loading lime, and than my comp studders (mouse doesn't move smoothly). I was patient with it at first. I let it load for about 15 minutes and surprisingly limewire opened but than froze again. I have tried this several times with the same results. So in a nutshell...when I open limewire it kicks my comp in the balls. Can anyone help?

-Mouze

PS- I would like this problem to be solved w/o deleting my whole library.

It sounds like you might have spyware running in the backround. You can try AdAware from Lavasoft.com or Spybot http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html if you want a couple of decent free anti-spyware progams. As far as antivirus, AVG has a free version at Grisoft.com. I find it's better than nortons just because it doesn't mess around with your registry and imbed itself all over your computer like Norton does.

if that doesn't work, try reinstalling LW

I already have adaware and spybot. So that should take care of my spyware probs. When I delete Limewire will that delete my whole shared folder, library, ect? Just got alot of files I dont feel like dl'ing again! :P

I have this problem on and off as well. I'm running Limewire on Server 2003. Had a new problem appear where Lime wire runs fine, but I can't type text in any fields.

Buzz.

Heres my setup:

Win XP Pro SP2
3gb of pc3200
P4 3.4Ghz HT
MS anti spyware
Ad Aware SE Pro 1.06
Norton AV Corp Ed.
Spybot S&D
eTrust Pest Patrol


Shouldn't be having problems as far as resources/protection goes. Now Im having issues where when I click to open limewire...it cant be found. So I have to reinstall it every so often. I even tried rolling back versions, but it happens with each one.