and I replied to your reply! Just so that this is cohesive, the problem with java has been cured. I have a clean install of Limewire 4.12.6, having deleted the preferences folder as suggested, uninstalling the older version, installing the new version and the first launch is not English!!!! However, by clicking on Ver (view) and then Mudar Idioma (change language) i got it to work. Thanks for the "map" to the menu items. I think I could have got that since it was close enough to Spanish but it is beyond me why it changed intially and then even stayed in a foreign language after all that deleting and installing and changing versions.

I think we can call this a closed problem. Interesting one, albeit. I never ever changed it myself.

Thanks LOTR for first of all your patience and your help.

Banshee Sailor