I tried exactly as you suggested. And as before, still 100% cpu usage. As before, Norbie etc have detected no viruses, malware, spyware on my computer.

What in your opinion are the next best file sharing programs after Limewire?

Don't know what the next best thing to Limewire is.

For torrents I would recommend BitComet. Works quite well. I have tried it a few times but mainly stick with Limewire.

Do you by any chance have the installer for the previous version. You could try to reinstall that instead. Maybe it still works great.

That's how I fixed it at first, until it really pissed me off that I couldn't upgrade ;) Was running 4.9.37Pro before

BTW: Just checked my taskmanager

Limewire.exe 1-3%
3 Downloads 20 Hosts 100+ KB/s
5 Uploads 30-45 KB/s

That's probably what it's suppose to look like. Even less than with 4.9.37

BearShare Lite. Or an older version of BearShare. Do not use the newer versions of BearShare

How are Morpheus and Phex rated?

Tried Morpheus. Didn't get a good impression, but I have some problems portforwarding my router. Someone else has maybe tried it and got it to work

I hear good things about Phex, but again the portforwarding thing. From what I hear advanced users get more out of it, so it might take a while to get use to.

Did reverting to old version not work ?