Limewire won't access browser or preview videos
 

I have Win XP SP2 .I have never had any problems with Limewire until today. Earlier today it was working fine but now when I click Preview nothing happens. When I highlight a video I already have downloaded and click Launch, nothing happens. This only began happening a few hours ago. I also tried to access the FAQ from Limewire and it didn't bring up my browser. The taskbar icon also isn't showing up and I have it set to always show. I right click on the taskbar and go to properties and customize to make sure it's set to Always Show and the icon isnt limewires icon anymore,, its norton antivruses icon. Ive been reading forums and websites and guides and havent been able to find the solution. So if anyone here could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.

So far I haven't heard about such a problem. But if I had personally that problem, I would start to try several things:

The first would be to delete the " .limewire " preference folder when LW is completely closed (i.e. also in the system tray -after restarting LW the configuration popups will show up) as described in Point #2 & 3 in Fixes for Limewire:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=36420

If that had no success, I'd uninstall all Java on my computer and use the JRE offline installer of the newest Java version to re-install it:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

And if that didn't do the trick, I'd uninstall Norton to see if that makes any difference.
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Thank you for your suggestions. I don't seem to have a preference folder in my.limewire folder. My java is updated to the latest version. I will try to uninstall norton though and see if that helps. Thanks again for your help :)

Not having a preference folder is impossible AFAIK.
Search your computer using " .limeiwre " (and yes, the dot before the name has to be there).
You can also read here on how to find the folder:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...imewire+folder
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As noted in step 3 of the 1st link FooloftheHill left, the preferences folder for the newer LW is called Limewire & is in a "Hidden" folder. So you'll need to turn show hidden files & folders on before you search for it. It's found within the Application Data folder (which is the one that's hidden.) ;)

same problem
 

My lime wire was working fine untill I upgraded to the newest version
so this guy is not alone.. I can't preview any songs or videos now.

updated to the latest java version too

My advice would be to uninstall both one more time (LW and all Java), rebooting the computer and then reinstalling Java (with the JRE offline installer) rebooting again, and then finally installing LW using also the downloaded installer .exe.
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I've just thought about it. Go and right click on your system tray (not pointing at anything special) then go to properties and then "Customize". Check whether LW is hiding when inactive (you need to have LW open to do so).
That could be the reason why you don't see it, though it might still be active working.
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Hey foolofthehill

I appreciate your suggestions. I tried to uninsall both LW and Jave and re-installed them again. Still isn't working. I also had the icon set to always show. It's so weird. All my other programs work fine with accessing the browser through them. It was only LW that wasn't. I recently installed Frostwire hoping that would remedy the issues but the issues are the same with that. Those programs are the only ones not working in that way. I almost want to just leave it alone. It isnt causing system problems or anything.. it's just a hassle for when I try to preview videos I am downloading.

Hmm it seems more than one thing has changed for you. It's not rare for some versions of LW not to work as well on some people's configurations. Not sure what to suggest. Perhaps wait for the next version. Have you tried re-setting the default for video playback? Also, whilst downlding, try using the Launch function from the incomplete folder (at least that stops a preview file being created when wanting to preview a incomplete file.)