If LimeWire fails to install

alright, here is my problem/story:
i had like limewire 4.8 or something up for like 6+ months maybe, up until like an hour or two ago. i was downloading a movie clip, and it put it in a folder called"LimeWire" in Program files. previously it had been sending all of downloads into a folder called "Shared" and i had liked that. then i got kind of angry when it wouldnt let me put new downloads into the original folder. so i went and un-installed(in my frustration) my LimeWire. then i went to the lime wire site and downloaded the zip for the latest limewire. when i went to install it, it gave me a message saying that i had an older version of limewire running, and to close those. but i had uninstalled it? it said it might be an icon in the tray thing at the bottom of the screen iwth things like the sound, and battery life. but there was not a lime in there. so i went and deleted old limwire folders and tryied again. no dice. didnt work. same message. so i tryed clicking "ignore"(it gave me options"abort""retry""ignore") until it was done installing. then it said it didnt install correct and to try again. didnt work. then i took my anger out in MS Paint and made random lines. thats about when i went to the limewire site which lead me here.

HELP ME PLEASE!!

thank you.

ps/ i tryed the link thing at the beggining of this thread and it also didnt work.

I'm gettin the same probelm, did you find a solution?

no

i had a older version that was working fine. Every time i opened it it would ask for a update on a newer version. For some reason I said yes this time. My old downloads all vanished and I keep getting the error message saying I have an error that an existing file is already open..... has anyone given you any options? Could we try contacting Limewire? What are you doing now for downloads? Thanks

This is what worked for me....was upgrading limewire v4.8.1 to v4.9.29, crashed in the middle of install, (with both windows & windows offline installer) I just restarted windows after the crash & tried again using the offline installer, worked just fine. I think my problem came from putting one version over top of another, & by restarting, it wrote to the registry that I did not have limewire & let it install. I used the so-called 'corrupted' file.

gmay- i have just not been downloading music.

mrsrocky- i'll try restarting the comuter and see if it then works...maybe.

i have like 4 versions of limewire, and I want to delete them all then re-install, however i have no uninstaller, and limewire doesn't show up on my add/remove list. How can i get these off so I can re-install from a fresh start? Thanks!

mdk2004, exactly this happened to me as well, and I'm getting really fed up with it! How to get rid of it to reinstall it without the uninstaller? and it doesn't show up in the program-list either. Is it possible just to delete it manually?Or does that harm other programs? (I'm no good at this!)

Go to Start/My Computer/Local Drive C/Program Files/LimeWire/Uninstall click on uninstall it should do what you want.

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