I reinstalled JRE 6.1 and the program is working fine now.

Thanks for the help.

i've deleted all previous versions of my java and installed the 5.11 one and it still closes everytime i open it. help!

KRS,

Try deleting LW's preferences folder when LW's properly closed. See point 3 here & also point 2 if you've used older versions of LW in the past (there could be a folder in either location).
Fixes for LimeWire
This will kill all of your settings within options, you'll have to go back through afterwards & reset things. If you're not sure of your settings, go through LW's tools > options & write them all down, so that you can reset things later.

Otherwise, try changing compatibility (point 5 in the 'fixes' thread).

^well i can't really do that because when i do a file search i get that message that says "windows explorer has encountered an error please send or not send the problem blah blah"

Hello one and all,

This maybe completely unrelated to the issues other are facing in this thread, but my issue seems to be exactly the same with a completely different fix.

I found as some of you also found that while working on the machine Limewire runs normally but afetr you leave the machie and in my case the aquazone (tropical fish) screen saver comes on, LW crashes.

I changed from this fancy scren saver to a windows (flower box) and now Limewire does not crash at all.

Like I say, your Java runtime version maybe the cause of your issues, but I have the 'bugged' version and LW 4.12.15 and the screensaver certainly sorted my problems out.

Cheers

Hi thanks for your reply. Sorry, forgot to mention I had already tried the compatibility back to win2000 (running XP pro) and still same. I have also now tried frostwire which I saw suggested on another thread, and that has exactly the same problem as limewire.
I checked my two daughters pcs last night and they both have latest limewire and latest java, one on vista home on a new laptop, one on xp pro on an old laptop, but both working fine so I'm really stumped now !!!!
help !

Sorry, also do not have alcohol software installed. I had seen that thread and couldn't find any reference to the software or filenames on my laptop.
thanks.

Important thing is that you have to check how many Java versions do you have. You must have only ONE version of it, not 2 or more.
To be able to see how many Java versions you have, go to Control Panel then onto Add/Remove programs. Scroll down and check how many Java versions you have. I suggest to uninstall all of the Java versions, or everything that begins with Java. After that go to Java official site and download latest offline version of Java. Install it and hope it will work.

There are lot of conflicts made with this new LW between different versions of Java. Try this and reply what happened.
Thx

Hi thanks for your interest.
I did uninstall all java versions using add/remove programs (see post #24 above) before installing latest version. I also kept on uninstalling each time before trying the older versions eg 1.5_11 (12 & 13) but still the same. have also just tried starting via limewire.jar as suggested on limewire.org forum but still same.
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Hi wange
sorry about the confusion 1.5.\10,11,12 & 13 are OK to use even JRE 6 without any updates is fine, the prob starts with JRE 6 u 1.
If you have installed newer java versions, you should do a search of your COM for old java files including Prefech files & delete them before reinstall, careful you don't remove the installer files, Put your old installers into a new folder on a drive where you will not delete by accident , if this fails to improve things Post your details, I will see what I can do to help.
Peace

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