It just won't work...

[tylerlikesmusic]

I had installed limewire, I think 4.13, and it worked fine, but I unistalled it. Then, I wanted it back, and I reinstalled, and it worked fine again. Then, came the newer limewire, and I installed it, and I think it worked fine as well. Finally though, I tried installing the newest limewire, with the updates and what ever, and it goes through all of it, untill it gets to about the middle of the installation and then it said there was an error, and now it won't work. So I tried unistalling the installed files, and installing it over and over again, and it did the same thing every time. And when I try to bring up limewire, it just gives me an error and a code. Can someone please help me?!

[birdy]

What error & code are you seeing??

First thing to try is deleting LW's preferences folder when LW's properly closed. See point 3 here & also point 2 if you've used much 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. 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.

Have you updated your Java since LW was working? What version of Java are you using?

[garbagefan2]

System Details

[tylerlikesmusic]

When I try to use limewire, it says "One or more files may be invalid." And during the installation, it said that there was somthing wrong with the installation, but I can't fix it. Here's the code:

LimeWire version 4.13.8
Java version 1.5.0_03 from Sun Microsystems Inc.
Windows XP v. 5.1 on x86
Free/total memory: 31454576/33357824
com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader$StartupFailed Exception: invalid update.ver
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader.sanityCheck(G UILoader.java:287)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader.load(GUILoade r.java:57)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Nativ e Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknow n Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Un known Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main.main(Main.java:45)
STARTUP ERROR!


FILES IN CURRENT DIRECTORY:
C:\program files\limewire\.NetworkShare
LAST MODIFIED: 1187403259453
SIZE: 0
C:\program files\limewire\clink.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406494703
SIZE: 622008
C:\program files\limewire\commons-httpclient.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406494828
SIZE: 445371
C:\program files\limewire\commons-logging.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406494921
SIZE: 59154
C:\program files\limewire\commons-net.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406495031
SIZE: 355370
C:\program files\limewire\commons-pool.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406495140
SIZE: 158968
C:\program files\limewire\COPYING
LAST MODIFIED: 1187301601517
SIZE: 18349
C:\program files\limewire\daap.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406495234
SIZE: 375837
C:\program files\limewire\data.ser
LAST MODIFIED: 1187301601611
SIZE: 358
C:\program files\limewire\foxtrot.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406495328
SIZE: 44273
C:\program files\limewire\GenericWindowsUtils.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1182557719437
SIZE: 12279
C:\program files\limewire\hs_err_pid519192.log
LAST MODIFIED: 1184209585390
SIZE: 12528
C:\program files\limewire\hs_err_pid64176.log
LAST MODIFIED: 1186636591562
SIZE: 13549
C:\program files\limewire\icu4j.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406495437
SIZE: 741440
C:\program files\limewire\id3v2.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406495531
SIZE: 94018
C:\program files\limewire\install.log
LAST MODIFIED: 1187403420078
SIZE: 2363
C:\program files\limewire\jakarta-httpcore.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406495625
SIZE: 485368
C:\program files\limewire\jcraft.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406495703
SIZE: 136693
C:\program files\limewire\jdic.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1181767194859
SIZE: 110592
C:\program files\limewire\jdic.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406495765
SIZE: 96604
C:\program files\limewire\jdic_stub.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406495828
SIZE: 64134
C:\program files\limewire\jl011.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406495906
SIZE: 255016
C:\program files\limewire\jmdns.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406495968
SIZE: 69306
C:\program files\limewire\language.prop
LAST MODIFIED: 1187403407734
SIZE: 4
C:\program files\limewire\lib
LAST MODIFIED: 1187403420171
SIZE: 0
C:\program files\limewire\LimeWire On Startup.lnk
LAST MODIFIED: 1187403420078
SIZE: 1549
C:\program files\limewire\LimeWire.exe
LAST MODIFIED: 1181767196093
SIZE: 147456
C:\program files\limewire\LimeWire.ico
LAST MODIFIED: 1187301600486
SIZE: 25214
C:\program files\limewire\LimeWire.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406493921
SIZE: 10238322
C:\program files\limewire\log4j.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406496062
SIZE: 677952
C:\program files\limewire\log4j.properties
LAST MODIFIED: 1181767196500
SIZE: 7171
C:\program files\limewire\looks.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406496171
SIZE: 630634
C:\program files\limewire\MessagesBundles.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406494515
SIZE: 4097923
C:\program files\limewire\mp3sp14.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406496234
SIZE: 40064
C:\program files\limewire\pmf.ico
LAST MODIFIED: 1187301600736
SIZE: 3262
C:\program files\limewire\ProgressTabs.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406494609
SIZE: 5786
C:\program files\limewire\root
LAST MODIFIED: 1187403407703
SIZE: 0
C:\program files\limewire\SOURCE
LAST MODIFIED: 1187301601564
SIZE: 273
C:\program files\limewire\spacer.gif
LAST MODIFIED: 1187301602017
SIZE: 49
C:\program files\limewire\SystemUtilities.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1181767194593
SIZE: 90112
C:\program files\limewire\themes.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406496312
SIZE: 766039
C:\program files\limewire\tray.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1181767195812
SIZE: 45056
C:\program files\limewire\tritonus.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406496375
SIZE: 152711
C:\program files\limewire\uninstall.exe
LAST MODIFIED: 1187403420093
SIZE: 125635
C:\program files\limewire\unpack.log
LAST MODIFIED: 1187403419828
SIZE: 14522
C:\program files\limewire\vorbis.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1183406496437
SIZE: 27215
C:\program files\limewire\xml.war
LAST MODIFIED: 1187301598830
SIZE: 16917

[birdy]

Update your Java to this version. Download the JRE offline installer & remove any other Java versions before you install this one.
Archive: Download Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Update 11

Next, 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. 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.

Last of all, reinstall LW. If you're going to reinstall the latest version of LW (4.14.8), make sure to use the offline installer. When you click to download LW & the dialog box pops up, cancel it. You'll see the option to download the offline installer