I have just upgraded from Limewire to Limewire Pro. After much stuffing around (Pro wouldn't work until I manually removed Limewire) I can't get any search results. On the left hand bottom corner it says starting connection but the globe next to it has a wall in front of it. I have configured it to work around my firewall and even tried disabling my firewall temporarily. When I do a search a box comes up that says "limewire is currently connecting to the network. Your search may not return many results until you are fully connected" but it never finishes connecting so I get zero search results. Can anyone help??

Have read previous posted advice sheet on getting around a firewall but the section on McAfee Firewalls won't open and I can't find the help I need in the McAfee help.

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Limewire Basic worked fine, just got greedy and wanted to try for more speed with Pro. Kids managed to do one search with Pro, not sure how but disabled firewall I think. Now it won't work even with firewall disabled.
win XP
Limewire 4.12.11 pro
Java 1.5.0_03
Dialup
modem conexant D850
Mcafee Personal Firewall Plus 7.1.113
Provider Bigpond
My Test worked!
Not sharing
Router ????
Ram & disk space ??

Try reinstalling Java. Use the JRE offline installer & remove your current Java before you install the newer version.
Java SE Downloads - Previous Release - JDK 5

Next, delete LW's preferences folder when LW's properly closed. See point 3 below (also point 2 if you've used much older versions of LW in the past...there could be a folder in both locations).
Fixes for LimeWire
This will kill all of your settings within options, you'll have to go back through & reset things afterwards

That might be all it takes...it's always a good idea to delete that prefs folder after updating or upgrading LW. If you still have probs, double check that your XP firewall is off & see if this link helps for configuring McAfee.
Port Forwarding for the McAfee Security Center

Also this one. Choose your firewall from the dropdown menu on the left & then choose configuration/features.
McAfeeHelp Technical Support

Ok!! After an entire day of fiddling around with it, I have got the firewall off the earth symbol. Now I can do good searches and dowload songs but videos just keep saying "awaiting sources". I have a turbo connection.

You're probably encountering fake files.

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=63993
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=56904 (applies to video also)

Good Luck

Dano

Thanks Dano, you are right.

If you have already fooled around too much with your lime wire and Java and firewall i recommend the following:

1) reset back your firewall to original, meaning make not exception and out the "check mark" back next you limewire box in the advanced section of your firewall setting

2) completely remove Java and Limewire from using the 'add/remove program' feature in the control panel

3) reinstall limewire from limewire's original website, this will automatically install the Java as well

4) once limewire is installed, open the program

5) click on Tools

6) click on options

7) Scroll all the way down and click on "advanced"

8) Click on "firewall Config"

9) Select the "Do Nothing" option over "UpnP" and click on apply and ok,

10) you will get strong connection all of sudden and the Limewire will configure itself

11) close Limewire, and reopen it

12) Go back to tools, options, advanced, firewall config

13) Switch back to "UpnP " option and apply

Voila..problem Solved

happy Downloading