Limewire acting really slow, and slowing EVERYTHING else on the computer

[slammy]

Hey all,

When I am playing music, or doing anything on my computer, and I start up limewire, my music will start to stop and start continuosly, and everything will freeze until limewire is loaded, and even once it is, if I go to search or something, making limewire have to load something, then it slows the copmtuer and affects the music again. This never used to happen, but since I installed the java runtime engine onto my computer, it has been playing up. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it, but I though that becuase Limewire is a java program, then it could be related.

If you need more info, please let me know.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers

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