Thanks for the reply 6_pac.
Yes I do have a brick wall in front of the blue globe.
I noticed my Lynksys router had a firewall active as well as Zone Alarm so deactivated the Lynksys one. The java.exe program has question marks set next to it in the program control part of zone alarm but still the brick wall is there.
That link you mentioned showed `your test worked` so wondering what to do next?.
Cheers
Steve

Haven't used ZoneAlarm but usually in firewalls when there is a questionmark on a program that you want to give full access, you can just right-click on it and choose allow instead of ask. This helps a bit with the startup process of Limewire. You should of course do the same thing with Limewire.exe if that has a question mark as well.

Another way to see if your files even show up in any searches in by looking at the hits. If the number under hits says zero then there is probably something wrong with your configuration. eg. firewall problem.

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Also the number in the green box says how many files you are sharing.

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