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Old July 10th, 2007
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First of all I did the search for my problem but everything about it is old and I never actually saw a fix. My problem is this, I go to the download page for LimeWirePro that I purchased. I go to download it and it does, when the install wizard comes up I get this error message

ERROR OPENING FILE FOR WRITING:

C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\COPYING

CLICK ABORT TO STOP THE INSTALLATION,
RETRY TO TRY AGAIN,
IGNORE TO SKIP THIS FILE

I have been trying to download this thing for a month and its the same old stuff. What do I need to do to get it installed.
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What Java version have you been using? Some people have had problems with JRE 1.6.0_01. If that's the verison you're using, try this latest Java 6 update 2 instead. Use the JRE offline installer & remove your current Java version before installing this one.
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If that Java version's no good then try this older update. Same deal with deleting other Java versions before installing this one.
Archive: Download Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Update 11

Now, 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).
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This will kill all of your settings within options, you'll have to go back through afterwards & reset things. If you're not sure of your settings, go through LW's tools > options & write them all down, so that you can reset things later.

Now reistall your Pro & see how it goes
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Old July 11th, 2007
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Thanks for all your help and i did everything you said. I went through and unistalled everything and then deleted the files. I then downloaded the Java and then tryed to install LW Pro and the same thing is happeing.. now what???
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Hmmmm...try using the 'other' installer.
Installing using the 'other' installer
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