Necessary Files appear To be Invalid
 

Hello,

I have had limewire for about a week now and everything has been running relativley smoothly until today. I tried to open limewire but instead of limewire opening a message appeared saying: "One or more neccesary files appear to be invalid. This generally caused by a corrupted installation. Please try downloading and installing Limewire again." Then it says if this problem persists to visit here and below that it gives out a report with data.
I looked into the add/remove programs section and it is no longer there. Also I have purchased my limewire so I'm a little upset about losing something I have paid for.I don't think its a virus or worm because I have multiple anti-virus, spyware, etc. programs. If anybody has a fix or a solution, please share with me. Oh, by the way my OS is Windows XP Pro 2002. Thank You.

:bangh: :mad: :mad:

Update
 

Ok, I am scanning my PC now with a anti-virus program called a-squared Free 2.1 and it is picking up some files called:

Trace.Directory.LimeWire 4.12 - 1 traces - medium risk

Trace.File.Limewire 4.12 -20 traces - medium risk
(both of these were detected in limewire)

Ok so what I want to know, (as well as my problem above), is what are these? should I delete them? I may have previously deleted them, is this an issue? Thanks for the help. :( :bangh:

Don't ever uninstall LW via Add/Remove Programs...it can cause problems! Use the LW uninstaller. Start > All Progs > LW & use the uninstaller there;) Also, installing another version of LW will automatically remove the old version.

First of all, update Java. Use the JRE offline installer & remove any old Java versions before installing the new one.
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

Next, delete LW's preferences folder when LW's properly closed. See point 3 below.
Fixes for LimeWire

Last of all, reinstall LW. You can download another Pro version whenever you like, using your personal download link. I'm a bit worried here, because you seem concerned about 'losing' the LW that you paid for. I'm hoping you haven't been scammed:) If you bought Pro from www.limewire.com then you'll have your personal download link, which you can use for 6 months. Basic LW is free & is available here
http://www.limewire.com/english/content/download.shtml
Always use the offline installer.

Step Back
 

Thanks Birdy for responding so quickly and with lots of information. But while this may be my PC and while I do have a basic knowledge on how computers operate. I dont want to get into something too complicated and I dont want to delete stuff without knowing what exactly I'm doing. So I'm going to wait a couple hours when my Father gets home from work before I try your tips. He's better at this kind of stuff. So I dont know what time zone your in, but I'm on Hawaiian time and he wont get home for another 5 hours. So once again thanks for the help, but I dont want to overstep my boundries in terms of knowledge just yet. :cool:

No worries. Post back later on, if you're still having problems:laugh_2:

Hi Birdy can you help me
 

Hi,
You seem to know your stuff. I used to be on the free limewire and now have pro. I upgraded because all of a sudden I couldn't play my files. I can play them in the windows media player but not on the limewire player. I have checked that it is selected and have shut down a restarted but I can't seem to get it working - nor can I find any info on this particular problem on the limewire web site. If you can help that would be great or anyone else reading this that knows something about it. I noticed someone else has posted the same problem but couldn't find any replies on this. Thanks for any input folks cuz I'm stumped.
leenerbeener:cool:

Hi,
I really don't know why you'd want to use the LW player (I find it pretty awful) but if you really want to use it, try this: 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 kill all of your settings within options, you'll have to go back through afterwards & reset things.

Thanks
 

Hey thanks Bird,
I checked out the pages you sent me and printed them off. I will attemp the suggestions when I have a chance - my little one keeps me busy. I just find the player convenient while searching for new tunes. Thanks and I'll let ya know how things turn out.
:Smilywais:

Still Stumped
 

I'm having the same message come up, I've tried all of the suggestions posted but I STILL cannot use, or open, Limewire. Any other suggestions?