Big Problem With Limewire Help Anyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok so i have had limewire for almost 2 months now and it has been working fine for me , then suddenly , yesturday when i opened limewire it started to go slow and freeze up,and my windows crashed a couple of times also then when i tried to connect to limewire i did , and only got 4 bars then started to search and suddenly the bars go to 1 and i get no results and i restarted my computer and everything what could be wrong i checked my computer for viruses so why is limewire acting weird rite now and suddenly going slow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!please any ideas of what might be happening with limewire or my computer because it is getting really really anoying ever time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1when i have to wait for limewire to start and to make the bars go up when they don't

Try steps 1, 2, 3 & 5 here Fixes for Limewire

well i tried it and no results i reopened limewire and now it works but i want to prevent this from happening again what does anyone think is the problem to make sure about viruses i am going to scan it online on bitdefender to make extra sure it was not a virus casing me problems