Limewire Barely Works

**lablkilz699** · May 13th, 2005, 07:25 PM

Hi, my limewire has basically stopped working. I dono whats wrong with it but whenever i try to use it, it opens up, but is basically frozen or extremely slow. Half the time no text even shows up just gray. I tried re installing it but that didnt work...i dono what to do, any help... thanks

**njolakoski** · May 13th, 2005, 07:36 PM

No problem here it works perfectly

**lablkilz699** · May 13th, 2005, 08:24 PM

thanks for the advice, lol

**njolakoski** · May 13th, 2005, 08:29 PM

Maybe if you re-download Limewire?

**lablkilz699** · May 13th, 2005, 08:32 PM

read orginal post....said i already re installed it.

**filipino** · May 13th, 2005, 08:33 PM

firewall maybe?

**njolakoski** · May 13th, 2005, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by lablkilz699

read orginal post....said i already re installed it.

No Not reinstalled it, re download it then reinstall, it Im just making a suggestion, but What Filipino said you should check into, maybe your Firewall is turned on?

**Blazer06** · May 13th, 2005, 08:36 PM

What version are you running?

-Blaze

**lablkilz699** · May 13th, 2005, 08:39 PM

well, i make a point to turn off windows firewall, then yes...i redownloaded, and reinstalled is what i meant...still not working.... and Limewire 4.8.1

**rastorize** · May 13th, 2005, 08:39 PM

When you reinstall - are you just installing over the original installation? Or, did you completely delete the installation folder and start fresh? Do you have any unfinished downloads that are waiting to be finished? Maybe that's causing the slowdown - a corrupt file or virus?

**lablkilz699** · May 13th, 2005, 09:22 PM

i had a feeling in the back of my head that its a corrupt file or virus for some reason....

**lablkilz699** · May 13th, 2005, 09:24 PM

i would uninstall the folder but its not there so i dono what to do

**Blazer06** · May 13th, 2005, 09:33 PM

In the same folder that your P2P folder is stored, there is another called INCOMPLETE... delete the contents of that. (also, you will loose any download you had going at the time)

-Blaze

**survivalhero** · May 13th, 2005, 10:50 PM

I've had the same problem. How much ram do you have? limewire eats so much ram it's insane can't really multi task with it unless lots of ram of course but yeah mine use to be really really really slow and it pissed me off cause welll limewire is good. Anyway yeah got another stick of 512 and limewire pro fixed the problem... hope that helps and if you have a gig of ram then I have no idea

**lablkilz699** · May 14th, 2005, 02:54 AM

yeah...definitely not ram....it was working extremely well until like yesterday when it randomly started basically freezing up.

**survivalhero** · May 14th, 2005, 10:53 AM

Hmmm, then I have no idea... sorry

**Messiah89** · May 14th, 2005, 10:58 AM

I have this same problem with LimeWire, it is extremely slow and lags my system.
My 700MB of free memory turns into about 40MB free when I open LimeWire, and the CPU usage is close to 100%.

This happened even before I reformatted Windows when I upgraded to my A64.
I've tried everything and it won't stop.

**dzee** · May 14th, 2005, 11:33 AM

Limewire started going really slow on mine too. I personaly felt it was something to do with the java that it uses & makes it quite demanding.
I just use a couple of other more responsive p2ps now. Maybe you should look elsewhere for a less lagging app.

**survivalhero** · May 14th, 2005, 11:53 AM

I think that it's because it's just limewire regular. Pro runs alot better and I understand that you guys probably don't want to spend the 40 bucks or w/e it was I paid but it runs lots better.

**lablkilz699** · May 14th, 2005, 02:17 PM

i jsut got bear share. and yes, i scanned my computer and it said there was a virus it coudnt remove, somthing with the word Java in it so im assuming thats all connected...?