LimeWire loads but then crashes at main screen startup - Help ?
 

i have been useing limewire for a while and now it wont start it loads fine but when it goes to start up the main screen it stops and if i try to open shared folder my pc gets an error report an i tryed in safe mode and still did it i have uninstalled and reinstalled but the problems presists some1 help me plezz :|

Can you recall what the last thing was that you downloaded ??
More than likely one of those files had a corruption within it and now it has corrupted your shared folder...

The best thing I can suggest is to type the last few files into your computers search using keywords and delete the file when it appears, also make sure you empty it out of your recycle bin as well, do this one at a time until you can re-enter your shared folder...

This more than likely has caused a corruption in limewire's preference folder/s as well, hence not being able to get limewire to start up, so you will have to delete it and re-set your limewire configurations...

This sticky will explain how to delete the preference folder/s...
Fixes for Limewire when LW isn't operating as it should
LimeWire Pref Folder in Vista

Also after all that is done you may want to run a full system scan with your AV and spyware apps...

ok i have no ieda wht the last thang was i downloaded im not sure how to figure out wht it was if i move my mouse over my shared folder not even clicking it i get the error reprort as well

have you tried deleting the folder in question?

sounds like you have a 'bug' of some sort...have you tried a virus scan lately?

yea if i try deleing it it sends the error report

Usually it's a movie or a film clip that causes this, well in my case it was...

When you get the error report read it and see if in the code it says xvid or something like that...;)

in the error report:error signature i get this

AppName: explorer.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.3156 ModNam: unknown ModVer:0.0.0.0 Offset 67706a2e

and it sends a file to my temp called 2d91_appcompat.txt

There's still more info you can get, click on the other little link...

ok i scanned thru the technical information about the error report and t has a bunch of letters and numbers it has my path to my shared folder then it has ration\menus\cache\menus... data\macromedia\dreamweaver 8\Configuration\menus\cache\menus\.....then tords the botto it has a bunch of stuff about y windows files such as y win32 files my exploier.exe and theres more and more things about my exploier.exe tords the bottom idk if any of this can help or not...

Nah to risky to touch just incase it does more harm than good...

We will try another way...
Delete limewire's preference folder, hopefully that will get you back into limewire and you may be able to delete (what you may recall) the last few downloads...;)


This sticky will explain how to delete the preference folder/s...
Fixes for Limewire when LW isn't operating as it should
LimeWire Pref Folder in Vista