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ever time i close limewire i get this message about an error that has occured about KERNEL32.DLL

PLEASE HELP

FRANK

Are you running Windows ME?

yes im using windows ME

This is actually a problem with Java. There is one solution that might work for you. You can try running LimeWire with Java 1.3. Obviously this has the drawback that you can't use any of the new benefits of Java 1.4. Also I'm not certain whether this will actually work or not. Another option is to just forget about it. As far as I can tell, there are no other consequences of the bug other than the error message. I'll continue to investigate the problem and let you know if I find a better solution.

Let me know if this works out for you,

Avi

yes i have the same problem and i dont think you can just forget about it because the error wont go away when you close it. it keeps popping back up.
no! using just java 1.3 doesn't work either.

Same issue with the error message on a system with a "clean install" of Windows 98 Second Edition and running only the Limewire 2.5 program. However, you can close the "illegal operation" Javaw message provided no file downloads are in progress.
Sure I can just ignore the error message, but my customers don't like new computers that generate any error messages. ;)

Frank, I had the same exact problem on a WinMe computer. It became a major pain in the *** and I uninstalled LW. I THINK that the version was 2.3 but I'm not sure. Anyway I reinstalled 2.4 and never had another problem with the Javaw error message.

I finally got Limewire to work. The problem for me seemed to be with Java. Sun had me download this beta version that is about to be released: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/

I removed the version that Limewire automatically downloaded and installed, and installed this version. Limewire now works as it should. (Finally!)

Den

I think I'll try that too. I've been having Java related problems again and had to uninstall LW. Thanks for the link.

There are reports in the Java Bug database, that explian this problem. Most often this occurs with the support of DirectX, due to hardware video accelerators that don't implement correctly some off-screen redraw buffers. The problem is not directly within Java, but is due to the fact that some video drivers do not report correctly that they don't support some accelerated options.

If you experiment this problem, you may disable Direct3D in Java, or all DirectX. See the Java support forums for details of the setting...

In Windows, you may also try to upgrade DirectX and use the Microsoft certified drivers instead of the "accelerated" drivers that some manufacturer propose. Generally this solves the problem. If this does not work, reduce the acceleration options in the system control panel. This should disable the support of off-screen buffers by the hardware, and use a software emulation.

Some other options can cause problems in DirectX: for example, on Windows XP, the "ClearType" smoothed fonts renferer has some bugs, and it can draw on pixels that were not part of the buffer. This problem occurs with many old display drivers, which assume that a character cannot be drawn on a larger area than its "visible" width.

The impact is that, in some cases, the character may be drawn with some pixels out of the off-screen buffer. This problem is visible when you open a DOS window and display a string of "w" characters: you'll see that the right edge of the character is sometimes displayed correctly, sometimes it is truncated, depending on the operation you perform. This can also be visible when, sometimes, the text of a title bar is drawn on the wrong place on the screen, in case of heavy CPU load. The problem is due to both a bug in Windows XP, and in the display driver...

Try disabling the smoothed fonts renderer in the display setting...