Well I officially give up now. It's up to Peerless

The only thing I can recommend is getting an older version. Something pre 4.10 Try to PM Lord Of The Rings. I believe he has some old versions.

You will need an email account that has at least 5 MB free. Believe they are about 4 MB but can't remember

I only have Pro installers saved unfortunatly

Limewire does use quite a lot of ram but little CPU usually. 48000 might even be pretty normal

Could you give more specs on what kind of PC it is and protective software you use for future reference and maybe a fix later

there is definitely something wacky going on here...

reminds me of when I had installed a new hosts file, and it was wacked...did exactly the same thing....and it took me a week to figure out wtf was up...in my case, since the hosts file is directly associated with your OS, I had that symptom as soon as I booted up..cpu totally sucked dry, temps of the thing through the roof..took me a couple of days to figure out which system process was doing it, then a few more to remember I had installed that new hosts file...upon removal, things went back to normal...

hmmm..the only thing I can think of at this moment is that something deep in LW is totally corrupted...

when you did your uninstall, reinstall stuff, did you by any chance manually delete everything that was left?

like in the incompletes folder, totally deleting said folder?

and in program files deleting the entire LW folder?

maybe even doing a search in your registry and totally removing ALL traces of LW?

and as noted, changing the name of your downloads and shared folders so that upon a new install, they are not associated with LW at that point...

basically I think you need to really wipe your system clean of any traces of LW ever having been there, starting with a totally clean slate and a totally empty shared/download folder

i am having this exact same problem. it started yesterday. i had LW running overnight in the mornihg it had stopped with an error. i restarted and it worked fine untill i noticed that my computer was running slow. it was LW using 100% of my cpu. i have already tried reinstall an looking for viruses an spyware and every thing else that has been suggested. ive noticed that it slowly starts using more and more cpu, and that if i shutdown all searches in LW it gets better and then starts using more and more cpu again untill after several hours it will error and ill have to cntr alt delete and shut it down. i only inatalled LW two weeks ago. it ran peachy untill yesterday.

Here's another thread about using too much CPU
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...ght=100%25+CPU

If you use the forum search to look for 100% CPU, 99%CPU, too much CPU etc etc... you'll probably find a heap of old threads & maybe some other things to try

the info on those threads didnt help. i did just change to to an older version to increase my download speeds as was suggested to me for that and it seems to have rid me of this issue. i changed to version 4.9.37. but thanks for trying to help by suggesting that i didnt try searching for my problem first.