New guy here...
Anyone know why the "enabling open sharing" screen takes so long?

Hi rmgallant,


You'll always see"Enabling Open Information Sharing" at the top of LW!
Do you mean that the search is taking a long time? Is your LW connected (all green or blue connection bars)? Are you getting any search results? If you're connected but not getting search results, try these fixes:

1. In LW go tools > options > searching > basic & check whether the 'show license warning' box is ticked. If it does, untick it > Apply > ok...see if that makes any difference.

2. Problems with the search

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

If that's not your problem at all, can you be more specific about what's going wrong?