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Old January 5th, 2007
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Here's the thing, though mickjapa. The virus (I think) makes LW start up on its own. Not shut down on its own. The virus is designed (from what I understand) to start up LW and allow access to file on yr computer using LW's peer to peer technology.

This is a different problem I think.

I'll try the Incoming searches suggestion, Sleepless. Thanks.

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I have the same problem. On this site there is a suggestion to uninstall Jave 1.5 and re-install 1.4 as directed. I did this and i still crash!
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Try LOTR's suggestions in this post
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showpo...37&postcount=2

You could also see if changing compatibility makes any difference - right click on the LW icon > properties > change compatibility to Win NT or 2000.
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Hi, I have a simillar problem but not exactly the same, so I just started a new thread. I hope that's not a bad thing.

When I click the cross-hair in the top right of the window, I have it set to minimise to the system tray. After a few minutes I want to view the progress of my downloads only when moving the curser over the LW icon, it disappears. I then reload LW to find that all my searches have gone and my downloads are having to reconnect. This has never happened before.

I'm not really clued up with all this about updating my java stuff so is there any down to earth solution?

"Birdy" - really like your quote ("A clean house is a sign of a broken computer"), I have something smart to say to my girlfriend when she complains about how my desk makes the room look bad. Cheers
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Maybe your LW preferences have got a bit messed up. Try deleting the preferences folder when LW is properly closed (otherwise it won't work)...this will reset all options to default. You'll have to go back through & reset things afterwards as you had them. See points 2 & 3 below for instructions. If you've used older versions of LW you might have a folder in either location...so check both
Fixes for LimeWire

Try that first & see if it fixes things!

That quote's my excuse every time my house looks bad

I'll delete that other thread now that you're in this one...no worries!
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Hi Again,

Thanks Birdie!!! It works beautifully now. Although, in case anyone else asks, i didn't realse it would cancel my current downloading downloads (I should have realised myself). I had only 30 mins remaining for one, now I have to wait 4 hours, but no probs cos now I can leave it for the 4 hours without having to re-connect. yeehaa

I used the quality line about having a clean house... with my girl. The look on her face when I said it put a smile on my face. Hehehehe
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This can happen if LW crashes or if LW's not closed properly before shutting down the computer.

What version of LW are you using? If you use version 4.12.3 & later, incomplete downloads should resume from from where they left off rather than starting from scratch again, even if there's an unexpected shutdown. What version of LW are you using?
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Good morning,

I am using version 4.12.6 and Java 1.5.0_09

I found the same problem with LW this morning. I left it open before sleeping at 5am and by 10.30am it had repeated that error so it took longer for the error to kick in this time which is why I thought it worked. I will try the same method of solution again soon. I don't have an anti virus on my pc at the moment and I think I have recently received a virus which might also be causing the problem. I think I have an error because 1) I can't access task manager through ctrl+alt+delete and 2) I unzipped a file in a folder recently when I think the error occured for the first time and now every time I open that folder it has about 2000 zip folders in it even after deleting them, i find them there again a little later.

I'm updating my McAfee antiVirus but the framework service is returning an error. When I have delt with this (soon), I'll try your solution again then let you know on the updated situation. Thanks for your interest in my probs.
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Sounds like you do have a virus. Check out the sticky below. In point 5, there's a link to Norbiesworld...he offers free computer help. I'd suggest you go there & register, then follow the steps for computer help (post a HijackThis log in the Viruses & Trojans section).

WARNING: Viruses on the network you should be aware of
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Hi guys, i've got the same problem.

No viruses as far as all my anti-virus and adaware programs are concerned, and the issue has only occured since i started using :
Limewire - 4.13.0 with
Java - 1.5.0_10


I can have limewire running in the background downloading while doing other things on my machine, and its fine. But if i leave the computer alone completely, i get limewire silently crashing. Usualy when i return, the programe has closed, but the limewire icon is still in icons in the right of my taskbar. When i click or run the mouse over the icon, it disappears.

Going by the amount of time left to go on my download, it appear to be crashing within an hour.

I have tried taking my computer back to the login screen, minimising everything, keeping everything except limewire minimised and tried keeping other memory intensive programmes running or shut down as well. I still have the same problem.

There is no record of a crash or programme problems in my computer logs.

Any advice would be great.

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