Who is this Javaw anyway?
 

When I play my windows media and have Limewire running I get an error message, you know the illegal operation one. This seems to due to a villian called my Javaw. What is this Javaw and how do I make it behave or kill it? I run windows 98, and use Norton office works. other then this my computer is pretty bare.
Any insites or exterminators are welcome.
PTTNH
Zatoon

OOPs it happened with out media player playing. All i have to do is to shut down lime wire and here comes trouble.

This is the error message detail I get:
JAVAW caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0187:bff9db61.
Registers:
EAX=c00309c4 CS=0187 EIP=bff9db61 EFLGS=00010216
EBX=0a1efe28 SS=018f ESP=0a1afe6c EBP=0a1b0108
ECX=00000000 DS=018f ESI=00000000 FS=4f67
EDX=bff76855 ES=018f EDI=bff79198 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
53 8b 15 e4 9c fc bf 56 89 4d e4 57 89 4d dc 89
Stack dump:
JAVAW caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0187:bff9db61.
Registers:
EAX=c00309c4 CS=0187 EIP=bff9db61 EFLGS=00010216
EBX=0a1efe28 SS=018f ESP=0a1afe6c EBP=0a1b0108
ECX=00000000 DS=018f ESI=00000000 FS=4f67
EDX=bff76855 ES=018f EDI=bff79198 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
53 8b 15 e4 9c fc bf 56 89 4d e4 57 89 4d dc 89
Stack dump:

What do this mean?
PTTNH
Zatoon

I have this same problem too. I have Windows ME

omg. pardon my incredulity but,

LimeWire is written in Java. javaw is the program that interprets the java code. Anytime you run a java program, it is run through javaw.

Saying javaw caused an error while running limewire is pretty much the same as saying limewire caused an error. I know that isn't any better, and I can't say why it happens. Sorry. At least I can tell you what javaw is :)

which version of LimeWire are you running???
 

despite the fact that it crashes the KERNEL32.DLL (which is a windows lib) I guess you have problems with the runtime environment. Since I'm sure you don't have a seperat JRE installed on your computer you are probably using the Virtual Machine coming with the limewire executable for windows. (say NO if something I gues here is not true).
In this case you should try to reinstall LimeWire (uninstall before doing the reinstall!) you might have to download the LimeWire Installer again.
there is a second way however. You might install the above mentioned JRE from sun. in this case LimeWire will use the JRE instead of the virtual machine... bla bla...
try the first way if it does not help get a JRE from here
http://java.sun.com/1.4/download.html

mahalo

Thank you for your imput. I am sorry to say that I have no clue as to weather I have a virtual machine or not for as to this moment I have never heard of such a thing. So I think what I shall do is uninstall and download from sun. I do thank you and I will let you know if it makes a diffrence.
PTTNH
Zatoon

One question, please,
I have no idea if I am current with Java what evers drivers? Applications,updates). Is there a Java I should be downloading so that I keep the machine happy and healthy and current?
PTTNH
Zatoon

Hey,
its me again. I tried to download the sun. limewire and I get an error message that that page can not be found. Open to all ideas.
PTTNH
Zatoon

Sorry my fault!
 

I forgot a part of the link here is the right one:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/download.html
You should look up the row of your operating system on the left and then use the DOWNLOAD link on the left ('JRE' column).

the above is not LimeWire it is just what you need to run Java Applications. It is called a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). This is basically a 'layer' between the Java application and the hardware of your computer. usual programs don't need that 'layer' but they are dependent on one operating system. With Java you have a 'layer' for all operating systems and that way you can run any java program on any java-able machine. this is why this 'layer' is often called virtual machine - it simulates a computer (about like that). enough of this.
You still need to download LimeWire and install it. The default LimeWire comes with a small virtual machine but if a JRE is installed on your system it will use it instead because it is faster.

that's why I said you might as well try to uninstall and reinstall Limewire first. most of the time something just went wrong during installation or the download...
And this would solve the problem much faster. The JRE is about 50MB large so downloading might take a while...

good luck. ;)

JAVA
 

I'm new to limewire, but I know a little bit about computers. JAVA (created by Sun Microsystems) takes up a little bit of processing space. Running Windows 89 could be a problem. It's a good OS, but XP is a lot better (fewer crashes, actually none). That's beause it's based on the NT kernal.

Anyway, getting back to your situation, I suggest the following...

Your computer is slow and has an old OS. So you have to try to treat it with kit gloves. 98SE is good, but it doesn't handle multitasking too well. So, the bottom line is this...
Don't try to run more than one program at a time. We all wish we had 'super-fast' computers (mine is a P4 at 2.2 Ghz with DSL), but money prevails. Hope this helps.

Very best regards,
Bob