Limewire

[me283]

Hi all,

I downloaded this thing yesterday, as WinMX seems to be out of commission nowadays. The choice of download is superb, and it's quite an easy thing to use. The problem is that when it's running everything else on the computer seems to slow up nearly to a standstill. Does anyone know how to address this? It would be great to have Limewire running in the background whilst I work, but I can't really do anything whilst it's running.

[punky]

Firstly, Limewire used to, and I think still does, come with spyware, so you should try and kill that with Microsoft anti-spyware, Adaware, Spybot Search & Destroy, etc.
If you are using XP, you can force applications to run on a lower, or higher priority to others. Bring up the task manager bit hitting ctrl-alt-del. Find the limewire.exe process, and right click it. Go to priority, and set to one lower than normal.

HTH mate.

[me283]

Originally Posted by punky

Firstly, Limewire used to, and I think still does, come with spyware, so you should try and kill that with Microsoft anti-spyware, Adaware, Spybot Search & Destroy, etc.
If you are using XP, you can force applications to run on a lower, or higher priority to others. Bring up the task manager bit hitting ctrl-alt-del. Find the limewire.exe process, and right click it. Go to priority, and set to one lower than normal.

HTH mate.

Thanks Punky, that seems so much better. Cheers mate!

I hate spyware

I hate Peer 2 Peer

[Halcyon]

I think Limewire has a java infrastructure which on some older PC's can seriously slow things down when the program is open.