the problem I am having is that on launching limewire, it goes into like a game mode, screen goes black and then my configuration changes to very large icons. Almost like it is running in safe mode. But when exiting it, everything goes back to normal? running xp and java 6 and latest pro version of limewire...i have the same setup on my laptop but it is running ok...????any help out there for this BTW have tried uninstalling and reinstalling and still the same even did the deleting of preferences folder...i am stumped? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...

Maybe you have it set in compatibility mode with low reolution? Go right click on the limewire shortcut and go to compatibility and see. I will look into the old version of java.

I found this in Java's forums which relates to this a lot. JRE 1.6 very slow...