just did all that to a T and i get the same result as the poster. the last thing that i think i saw in the crawler say was launching library or something like that. i am running defender pro, but no firewall that i know of on it. i did however have the firewall icon showing when i did have it working. any input on why that icon was up and where i might go to find out if i do infact have a firewall that i can't find running from defender...already looked everywhere in the program.

desertPOD,
I see from one of your old posts that you've tried deleting the preferences folder before. Did you ever try changing the compatibility to Win NT or 2000? Right click the LW icon & give it a try (sorry if you have already tried that, can't remember seeing it in any of your old posts). Have you tried reverting back to an older version of LW (providing you have an old installer) to see what happens?


Your LW might've been seeing an internal firewall within your modem or router.
You'd need to enable UPnP or port forward in that case. There's info about those in the thread below, just in case your LW gets going again
Connection problems? Check here first!