the view settings under options only allow you to edit the "do not display this message again" thing, edit popup settings, or enable autocompletion of text fields, and i dont know what navigation button your reffering to but im pretty sure this isnt something that you can do to your limewire by fooling with the options, (although i could be wrong). it seems to me that the interface is bugged my first guess when looking at it was that it was a JRE problem, but if it is i dont know what to do with it aside from uninstalling/reinstalling JRE. I figured people would have trouble understanding this problem which is why i enclosed the pictures it would have made it alot harder to describe otherwise.

i havent used lw for like weeks now it hasnt responded to anything id done so far i was guessing it was a JRE problem and that fooling with the options seemed a little pointless if it was infact bugged or an incompatability problem or something but since you kept telling me to change options to fix i had been fooling with them without any changed until i decided to revert back to the default settings in the LW options, it worked my search results appear again, i guess LW had been uninstalling everything but keeping some kind of settings saved instead of wiping itself from my system completely, these settings had been loaded automatically when i installed a new LW...i know ive had this problem more than once sop im sure someone else will run into it eventually if u do just go to tools, options, restore defaults. thanks for ur help and inspiring me to look in my options for a resolution clipmgr, i had no idea a problem like this would have such a simple resolution.

When i'm in the lw site my toolbar has file/view/navigation/resources/ tools/filters/help
I click View I get a drop down with show/hide;monitor;connections;library;console;search which drops down to Result filters.
Do you have those? If so, have you f***ed with them?

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OMG! That's it.

I just closed out of LW and reopened it.

Just like in your pics, when "All Types" is highlighted I get a blank just like you. As soon as I click on Audio all is well.

Could it be that easy?

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