"unpacking"

[Zabel06]

HELP! PLEASE!
I had an older version of limewire. Last night I opened the program and was prompted to download the latest 7 greatest 4.6.0 version - which I did.
Installed it and it kept getting stuck on the "unpacking" phase of the download aftet the "Finishing Installation" pop up window.
IT JUST FREEZES THERE! I dod "Cont. Alt. Del." and it says "LimeWire setup" not responding.
I tried updating my JAVA to 4.2.1 SUN like they say on on of the forum pages. That got me a little further but it still freezes on the "upacking" part.
Now here's the bad news >> I'm running Windows 98! Sorry!
I would appreciate any help! I really dod not want to go back to the evil land of KAZAA!
Thanks for your time!

[Lord of the Rings]

That's Win 98 not OS/2 right? The most recent version of Java is 1.5 http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp (take the JRE)

Instead of installing over the net, SAVE the installers to your HDD before installing.

[jet6619]

im getting the same problem, but with windows xp

[Zabel06]

Okay - 1st of all THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!!!
I did what you asked by downloading the 5.0. That went fine except at the end I got "This program has performed a fatal error" pop up window. I closed that and then the program finished installing. Strange?!?
So I went to the LimeWire install and tried again. SAME THING! It gets stuck on the "upacking" pahse right after the "Finishing Installation" window.
Any other ideas > PLEASE!
Thanks again!

[Lord of the Rings]

Did you install over the net or save the installer to your HDD. The latter I would recommend. Installing over the net can result in temporary pauses & loss of ...efficiency in installation & downld. This might sound crazy but I had an installation issue & I solved it by rebooting after downlding the installer. Then installing. But someone else tried that & it didn't make any difference for them. And I know it's a pain rebooting. But rebooting can clear the OS & ram of previous activities. If the installation is the only process happening then there's a much better chance of success if there is any difficulty.

The last resort is to clean up your registry. If you don't have a decent registry cleaner there's some HERE (click on link) (Some of those are free I think from memory.)

If you still have problems then there is an alternative installer I think. You just unzip it & use it. See Here about 'other' version.

[Zabel06]

I right clicked and choose "Save Target As".
Then opened it from there. Is that what you mean?!?
Sorry, not that computer savvy!
If that is NOT correct, please explain the correct way.
I also tried the "Other" download option and could not open the ZIP file for some reason.
And I did try the rebooting thing too - no luck there either.
Thanks again for your help.
O!

[Lord of the Rings]

I presume right-clicking does the same thing. I get 2 browser options, save as file or install, etc.

That 'other' verison shoud work ok. hahaha xcuse me but sounds like nothing's going right! Try again unzipping. Hmmm when was the last time you did a system maintenance check? You are using admin priviledges I presume? I wonder ... I'm not a windows user per se, though I do have win 2k on my computer. I wonder if you could achieve what you want to do after a SAFE Boot.?!? Try disconnecting from the net, & temporarily disabling your firewalls & anti-virus, adware & spyware before you try installing.

[Zabel06]

I'm still working on it!
Again I really appeciate your help.
How do I do a SAFE BOOT?
I'll try turning off the firewalls and such. I will also try that reg. cleaner that you recomend.
Anything else???
Again, THANKS!

[Lord of the Rings]

Boot in Safe mode for Windows (click on link for instructions)

Still doesnt work...i have the same problem, and i cant get it to work, even in safe mode...

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