Limewire Shuts Down possible Java update problem
 

I use to be able to play games in full screen mode with limewire still running. But now Limewire just shuts down automatically. The only thing I can think of that is the problem is that java update was just installed. I originally thought it the realarcade I had installed but I uninstalled that. And the problem still exists.

How do I fix this? Thanks.

By the way I am new here.

System:
amd 3.2ghz
ati radeon x1600pro 512mb
160gig hardrive
1gig of ram
K8T890 motherboard/pci express

broadband internet
version of limewire: 4.12.6

scalad Hi.
What is your connection speed ?

How many simultaneous Downloads do you have set ?

How many simultaneous Uploads do you have set ?

My connection speed is 54Mbps
Simultaneous downloads: 20
Simultaneous uploads: 20


Those settings were like that when I could use limewire and full screen games at the same time.

Thanks for replying.

At first when you use L/W, your L/W library is small, as it grows, more people
Upload from you, So if you have also many large files D/Loading at the same time With your Upload/D/Load sliders set to full, THEN you stream games
Somthing has to give,
So when playing games, try cutting both to 10, and move the sliders from full,
Back 10%, UP & DOWN.
Its recomended not to use the sliders on full at any time.
Peace.

That didn't work. Bummer

Who is your ISP ?

Also try Disable ultrapeer capabilities, In Tools/options/Speed
Peace,

That also didn't work. I swear java update did something. Only because the problem has occurred after the update. Since I never had the problem before. Your help is really appreciated.

Hi Scalad

I know its long winded but probably quicker in the long run.
Lets try a clean sweep & install.

Follow these instructions exactly.
So, you need to Go, Start/All Programs/LimeWire n Uninstall all L/W versions.
Do Not Uninstall From Change or Remove Programs.
Re BOOT Your computer NOW.

Now Go to, Start/Search/click on all files n folders/more advanced options/
& make sure, case sensitive, is not ticked. (all other boxes should be ticked)
Now!!, Put limewire in box, (all or part of file name) & click search.
Delete everything found, including Prefetch folder, (I mean everything)
Re BOOT Your computer NOW.

Now! Go to,
START/Set Program Access/Change or Remove Programs,
now completely remove all versions of java.
Re BOOT Your computer NOW.

Now! Use this Link to get (jre-6u1-windows-i586-p-iftw.exe) Use the off line installer, NOT the (recommended) one,
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
When Download is completed.
Disconnect from internet, close ALL apps n reinstall java.

Now!! Use this link to download latest L/W version using the off line installer
http://www.limewire.com/
If you need help, Shout, If it fixed your problem or not, Feedback helps others.
P.S..Before using L/W put the settings to where we have already discussed
Peace

Sorry I haven't replied I have been busy with work. I will try this on the weekend. Thanks again. How do I save the downloads that limewire searches for?

Hi scalad.
Files Downloaded using LimeWire are auto saved to your download folder
To access them, IN L/W Library, Highlight a file, click on explore,(Bottom Left)
That will take you to your Downloads.
If you mean how do I download a search result, Just Double click on it.

P.S...Dont worry about time, you wont get lost, I get a note when u post,
telling me you have answered, OK
Peace.

please god help
 

tried all you suggested but no joy if i have limewire open and i then open a game and then quit the game without loading or anything limewire will have shutdown even if i am or not downloading anything this is so frustrating please have the answer:fingers:

Hi BoB

System details - help us to help you Please.

Recently there's been a problem with people not providing enough details about their setup - despite being asked again & again.
So let's make it easy for everyone...the details that we need if we're going to be able to help with complex problems are:

Cut n paste Just these Questions,put your answers in bold text Thank You.

1. what OS version (eg: Windows 98, XP,OSX, Vista) ?
2. What firewalls you have ?
3. How much ram ?
4. Hard Disk space available ?
5. Connection type (eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.) ?
6.Modem what brand name & model numbers ?
7.Router brand name & model numbers ?
8. Where are you trying to connect from (house, apartment complex, school, student accommodation, work, etc.) ?
9. What version,LimeWire & Java, are you using. Go to L/W's Help/About L/W, THIS show both LW & Java version.?
10. Who is your ISP provider (Internet Service Provider) ?
11. Do this test click here: http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ should say 'Your test worked!. What happens ?
12. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up.
13. Is this your 1st try at LW, or is this a new problem with an experienced user.?
14. Do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface ?
15. Have you given full permissions for LimeWire to pass through your Firewall ?
16. XP users, Please state XP firewall on or off.?
17. In Start & remove Programs, Is this update Installed, "Security Update for Windows XP (KB931261)" ?
If Windows Updates are not seen, Tick the box at top of page, (show updates)
18. Are you using Manual Port faward in LimeWire OR UPnP ?
You can check HERE, IN LimeWire Go, Tools/options/advanced/firewall Config

These are all contained within the sticky Connection problems? Check here first!
but possibly some people are getting a bit confused or lost when we direct them to this sticky & ask them to provide their details.

This information can be vital
For instance, some ISPs are known for blocking p2p/throttling bandwidth,
some connection devices are known for being unreliable in certain situations.

So please, help us to help you & provide as much info as you can.
If you're new to LW or new to computers & aren't sure how to answer some questions,
or don't know what an ISP or router is - just say so. Nobody's going to yell at you:wink:
Even if you can't answer all the questions in one go...don't worry. Do the best you can & we'll take it from there.
__________________
Peace.

info required
 

1. what OS version (eg: Windows 98, XP,OSX, Vista) ? vista 64 bit
2. What firewalls you have ? norton internet security 2007 & windows maybe
3. How much ram ? 2gb
4. Hard Disk space available ? 372gb total 272gb left
5. Connection type (eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.) ? broadband
6.Modem what brand name & model numbers ? ?? same as 6
7.Router brand name & model numbers ? bt voyager 210 asdl router
8. Where are you trying to connect from (house, apartment complex, school, student accommodation, work, etc.) ? flat with individual phone line
9. What version,LimeWire & Java, are you using. Go to L/W's Help/About L/W, THIS show both LW & Java version.? lw 4.12.11 java 1.6.0_01
10. Who is your ISP provider (Internet Service Provider) ? madasafish
11. Do this test click here: http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ should say 'Your test worked!. What happens ? your test worked!
12. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up. no
13. Is this your 1st try at LW, or is this a new problem with an experienced user.? new problem as experienced user
14. Do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface ? yes
15. Have you given full permissions for LimeWire to pass through your Firewall ? think so
16. XP users, Please state XP firewall on or off.? n/a
17. In Start & remove Programs, Is this update Installed, "Security Update for Windows XP (KB931261)" ? n/a
If Windows Updates are not seen, Tick the box at top of page, (show updates) 18. Are you using Manual Port faward in LimeWire OR UPnP ? Upnp
You can check HERE, IN LimeWire Go, Tools/options/advanced/firewall Config

hope this helps

Thanks

Right Bob
Try rolling back your java to JRE 1.6.0 there's an issue with 1.6.u1
click on this blue link, OH!! & use the off line installer.
Java SE Previous Releases Downloads
Also make a choice witch Firewall you wish to use, then disable the other,
two running at once conflict with each other,
let us know how you get on.

so far so bad
 

cannot get hold of 1.6.0 it keeps trying to give me the updated version have baraged their customer services department for answers and where to get it as of yet no reply have disabled windows defender and all the stuff that goes with it but norton is not managing my windows account is this major?

will keep you informed

praise be

Hi Bob
sorry man the link did work, I tried it, Bugs A!!.

Here's a good link
Use this blue link, & choose JRE Download. Don't forget to uninstall all old versions first, from add n remove programs.
Archive: Download Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) 6
Do this first & try, then we will look at your security OK.
Peace.

will this ever end
 

Downloaded 1.6.0 onto system and then got on my hands and knees and prayed ............

it still doesn't work!!!!

does exactly the same thing as before

where next?


praise be

Try this
Use this link to configure your BT Voyager 210 corectly

PortForward.com - Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall

router done whats next
 

done all the stuff ip addresses routers etc but still same problem what we going for now?

praise be

Bob Hi
It could be a firmware thing,
I'm sorry Bob I don't have a clue with vista, try the Vista forum, (forum jump) at
the bottom of this page. Vista users would have come across this,

Or you could try completly uninstalling Norton, Do a computer search for stray
Symantic files & delete, Turn on the vista F/Wall ,Restart Computer, then clean install L/W again.
Limewire should apply to Windows F/Wall, Give full access.
Hope that helps Bob,
Peace.

You don't happen to have Alcohol 120% installed too, do you? I had Limewire, Azureus, and Alcohol installed, and haven't used Azureus in a long time, but for quite some time, Limewire closes just after it gets to the GUI page. Then I wanted to use the new Azureus, and it did the same thing. Their help wiki suggested removing Alcohol. The instant I uninstalled Alcohol 120%, both Azureus and Limewire started running just fine.

Hi Aviator Dave.
Thanks for your input man, Ive been scratching my head for days on this one

Bob!! Do you, or have you used, Alcohol app on your computer
Please say Yes:rofl::laugh_2:
I hope you haven't given up friend.
Peace.

could it be this
 

don't really want to uninstall norton as had major problems installing it in the first place

could it be this

the screen resolution for my normal desktop if different to when i play the game so when i exit the game the screen is enlarged and when i click the screen it reverts to what i set it at could this as when i use internet explorer and then exit that the screen resolution doesnt change and i can happily open limewire from the system tray

praise be

Its your choice Bob,
So you paid for a three legged donkey called Norton,so why stick with a program that costs the earth, misses most of the threats that are found by AVG FREE antivirus, & its known to be problematic with file sharing apps,& there's so many versions it may be Quicker asking Norton how you can configure it to work with Limewire.
But if you don't answer Questions I'm just left in the dark as to how I can help, Look back over this thread & try to give feedback.
Check the vista forum
good luck

P.S...The other point you made sounds more like a Vista bug, a symptom, not a cause.

alcohol
 

sorry guys never heard of it or used it

uninstalled the 3 legged donkey (norton) but still no difference

just about to search the vista forums

thanks for your help and patience

if you hear anything that could help give me a holla will keep an eye on this thread

Praise be and keep the faith

Bob
Norton has a removal tool to completely remove norton, It wont properly uninstall from add n remove programs, so thats why no difference, Go to their site
& download their brute force uninstaller.

i feel so hopeless
 

can't find the brute force thing on their website i so wish this would end

:bangh:


praise be

Ive asked Grandpa to take a look, I hope he's not to busy, I am trying Bob.

I actually don't think you will find an answer to this one...

It wouldn't be Norton stopping you from running the two programs together, it's a matter of limewire and the game you are playing being just to much for the computer to cope with...
Do you ever experience any lag in your games when you have to many other windows open ??...
I know when WoW is being run on my computer and I want to check my inbox, it will take ages for my emails to load...
My suggestion would be to run each app at different times...;)

Back in the thread Bob says 2gigRam 64bit so I took it that should more than
Handel things. I'm just trying everything in the dark, I don't have Vista.
Peace.

more info that may help
 

when i had xp and limewire and norton there wasn't a problem the computor i had was slower had less ram etc etc with no lag got a new one with vista same game same norton updated limewire obviously but does this shutting down thing whenever i open the game it isn't one particular game it is all of them this one might go in the record books as one to forget!!!

thanks guys

Praise be

Try version Java 6.0 you can get it at the link below. Make sure you uninstall all versions of Java through the control panel before you install 6.0 if 6.0 doesn't clear up the problem try 1.5 update 11

Archive: Download Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) 6 use jre-6-windows-i586.exe

The above link is 6.0 the link below you can find all versions of Java.

Archive: Java[tm] Technology Products Download

Edit The first link I left earlier was't working I have changed it click on the The (J2SE Runtime Environment (JRE) allows end-users to run Java applications) then choose the (jre-6-windows-i586.exe) for 6.0

could this help from tireboy if so can you translate into simple words and stuff


Okay by no means am I a computer guy ,but after reading forums for three days and a sore butt I seemed to have fixed at least it shutting down. I noticed the same solutions coming up all the time switch to windows basic, delete pre. folder re install , roll back java driver .To tell the truth i didn't understand the java reinstall at all . So I came acrossed this one thread that said even if you shut down windows firewall it was still on.
Here's the my setup,
Windows vista that had Mcaffe uninstalled at best buy and trend micro virus and web root spyware put in, but I think they ripped me for the webroot because trend micro does spyware too but let's not talk about that now.
I passed all the test that people have here and all that stuff .
I'm not telling you I did this because I was smart , I just took a little bit of everybodys advice and did it.

1. Put limewire in advanced search deleted every thing because like most my uninstall did not work.

2. Turned off windows firewall wich in fact will stay on behind the scenes as I found out on the forums.

3. Went to limewire site reinstalled normal no offline or anything.

4. Put firewall in search ,went to advanced pref. settings

5. Went to inbound rules on left column ,down to limewire, now I don't know why but there was 4 on the list and noticed that two had UDP settings and two had TCP settings now on the forums I read about setting up UPNP or UNPN whatever settings about using man. port forwading and stuff. So I changed the TCP to UDP allowed limewire through the allowed list and stuff. Now I don't know if did the wrong thing or not but it can't be worse than port forwarding , right ?

6. Changed to windows vista basic, changed all the little stupid things that vista does with graphics but still looks like vista ,shadows ,scrolling and things. I think I found that stuff through visual settings or something.

7. Changed screensaver to something simple my wife put picture slide on I changed it to bubbles.

8. I moved all my music and videos to another folder because I don't know if it would erase that stuff or not because I don't know about those things. So I moved the stuff back to the shared folder and started it up.


So far everything has been okay one time I went down to starting connection but I think that had to do with my LAN I'm on a wireless set up through the eeither net off a tower 4 miles away. I know I didn't spell eeither right , but I don't know about computers ,typing or the english language either.

I hope this helps somebody. I feel bad for people that have mcaffe because some where on the forums somebody found a patch from their website you can download and fix the problem they had but I would get lost on that one too.

If this does help maybe stick it on other post because, I don't know how to do that either.


Praise be

grandpa

alreadt tried the going back to java 6

cant find 1.5u11

praise be

muhctekdano

You made the same mistake I did with the link. The link below should get you 1.5.11

Archive: Download Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Update 11

grandpa

you are a god, a hero, the messiah, a legend, a genius if i could see you i would kiss you thank you so much

yes the answer is go back to jre 5 update 11

oh yeah oh yeah (doing a dance)

thanks guys have a well deserved beer, martini or whatever in memory of this moment

woohoo!!!!!

Hey Bob, all is not lost, Grandpa's is a Gem aint'ee mate.
It had to be something simple like that, I never even considered 1.5.11 because
I was lead to believe Vista needed at least JRE 6.
So now I know for shore, JRE 1.5.11 dose work with Vista, So I got something
positive out of this thread also.
Have fun Bob, Pranaams
Peace.

:buttkick2:..I guess I could do with one of these...

Why Wondering Why
Did you instigate the roomer LOL.

For saying there was no solution to the problem...;)

Hey WW.
All the people can be part right all of the time,
& some of the people can be all right part of the time,
But all of the people cant be all right all of the time, I think Abraham Lincon said
that.
I'll let you be in my dreams, If I can be in yours, Bob Dylan said that LOL.

ROFLMAO WW

You can really make me laugh some times THANKS :xirokrotima:

hey im a new dj trying to get music for my company, does limewire pro have unlimited downloads? plz get back to me on this

Customer Service Reply
=====================================
LimeWire is software that allows users to connect directly to other users'
computers, via the Gnutella network, and share files with them. It is not a
music service, we do not have any members, nor do we make any such indication, anywhere on our website.

We have no foreknowledge of, nor control over, what users decide to share over the Gnutella network, we do not place any files on the network for users to download, nor do we make any guarantee that you will find the files you are searching for.

Firewalls are not the cause of every LimeWire issue. "Need more sources" is
already addressed in our FAQ:
Lime Wire » Download LimeWire

Please provide a clear, detailed description of your problem, so I can better
assist you. In addition, if you are getting an error message, you will need to
include it in your response, exactly as it appears on your screen, as well as
the exact moment at which you received the message. To learn about peer-to-peer file sharing, and the Gnutella network, please visit:

Lime Wire » Download LimeWire
Lime Wire » Understanding Peer-to-Peer Networking and File-Sharing

Thanks,