Charlie Chalk

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Computer seem to be running a bit slower... Pages take longer to open etc


also I get a little box coming up saying that Limewire is always trying to connect, Is this why ?


Im running Limewire 4.9.41

Is there a way of making my computer running better with out having to uninstall Limewire?



Any help would be greatful

(Oh and Im not downloading excessive porn either )

AJC

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you want to get bearshare mate

Charlie Chalk

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whats that ?

Niall.b

not having any problems myself & been on it most of today. mind you i am running 4.2.6 if that makes much of a difference

AJC

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www.bearshare.com

lot better IMO

LEE-RS

you running Limewire pro or just Limewire ?

Niall.b

is there much of a difference?

Charlie Chalk

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Just limewire..

LEE-RS

you mean your not downloading anything on limewire but its running in the background slowing your internet conection ?

LEE-RS

pro version you get more results faster downloads etc

Niall.b

Pro is what ive been using with very good results

Charlie Chalk

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that must be...


Will have ago with Pro and see what happens

Niall.b

is there any restrictions to the quantity of downloads or trouble if u rip the arse out of it?

BM08

Ive been using limwire for months and no problems, ive always got the songs ive wanted from it

Version 4.9.37 by the way which i thought was the lastest but freddys is newer

Nath

You on about Radders or bearshare

Charlie Chalk

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Nath you coont

Niall.b

aint used bearshare before, just the limewire.

Lee Reynolds

As far as im aware Limewire is like the old kazaa...puts loads of shite on the pc that runs in the background slowing your connection down...

Niall.b

so does Bearshare operate differently then?

LEE-RS

right when you install limewire it loads up when you start up your pc by default

so what you got to do is go into limewire click on tools > options go down to system startup and uncheck the box where it says run on system start up

reboot your pc now limewire will only run when you start it so wont run in the background and slow things down

Niall.b

have given that a go will see if it makes a difference. cheers

Charlie Chalk

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Just been looking through the options and come accross this


Cheers

st3v3

Right lets try to lose a few myths of limewire,

1) The ONLY difference between likewire pro and limewire free is the amount of people you can connect to at once whilst downloading the same file,with the free version of limewire you can only connect to 8 people, the pro version connects to 10 people unless you can get a hacked version that is

2) There is absolutly,none what so ever, spyware in lime wire,if there is then you need to get it from a reputable site in the firstplace, like limewires home page and not somewhere else like download.com
3rd parties have been known to take the code apart and add their own spyware although original lime wire carries NONE.

hope this helps.

Charlie Chalk

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Just altered the settings and rebooted and its fine



cheers everyone

BM08

Ive never had any issues with it slowing my net connection down and i havent got the fastest connection by far, just close it down completly when not using it anyway, not just clicking the x at the top right, when you do that all it does is goes into your task bar so you need to find the icon right click it and select exit

LEE-RS

yeah you can do that but that meens everytime you start your pc your got to remember to close it down

Smit

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Been advised to use a new program called Frostwire....

Anyone ever heard of it? Seems really good

Charlie Chalk

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Whats that do smitty?

aduz

its the same as limewire except its called frostwire

Project ST

Bearshare is riddled with spyware and adware - install this if you want to run any p2p filesharing stuff:

http://www.microsoft.com/antispyware

... which warned me about Bearshare - MS Antispyware doesn't even blink when Limewire is running.

Limewire slows PCs down because (I think) it's based on Java, or at least it was - not much you can do about that, but your PC will probably run slower when you're downloading a LOT of different files simply due to the large amount of files the program will have open.

Any other good P2P programs out there? I can't find half the Fabric compilations I'm looking for!!

/al

BM08

My pc is 2.6ghz celeron, 512ddr ram and it doesnt slow it down at all, well not that ive noticed

Smit

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It has the same layout as Limewire yes! Something must be different though.....

DanRSturbo

Please note, the above software can only be downloaded from the above site if running a genuine copy of Windows XP

Anonymous

If you use p2p software, you might also want to run something like Peerguardian as well

Dicko&Vacant

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i used to always use limewire, but the pc started playing up and when i got my techy mate to format it found about 900 viruses and loads of trojans/worms etc, all of which had come from limewire, it had downloaded a file which was hidden and full of uploads, movies etc and it totally screwed my pc up

any p2p program is bad news afaik, only use bit torrentlite now

RS__vanman

or for anyone not runing a genuine copy,,,,,get it from here http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/