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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: October 05, 2009
- Total Downloads: 193,910,420
- Downloads last week: 529,773
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 9806 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on February 12, 2009
From its start as a post-Napster clone to its leading role as the quintessential Gnutella client, LimeWire is the highest-profile P2P application. Version 5 re-envisions LimeWire for a Web 2.0 world, with an emphasis on sharing with friends, square buttons with rounded corners, and overall a cleaner interface.
Two search bars and two sidebars cap off the redesign. The uppermost search bar is the global search that scans what everybody is sharing over the P2P network, while the secondary one on the right searches your library. The sidebars are set up in a similar way. Both are on the left, with the outer one offering three options: your library, the global P2P network, and your friends. Click on My Library and your inner sidebar shows your collection of music, movies, and documents. The P2P Network option shows what you're uploading and downloading, while the Friends option lets you share your library specifically with your Google/Jabber contacts, which you can import. Search results can be presented in both the new Web 2.0-style that surfaces just the most relevant information, with an Information button to dive deeper or the "classic" spreadsheet view.
The Advanced Tools feature is also new, which lets power users drill down and get highly specific information about who they're connected to, similar to what's available from torrent clients. This data includes IP addresses, bandwidth, the program being used and its version. The new features and overall functionality make this by far the most mature version of LimeWire to date. Despite the typical performance flaws found in all file-sharing clients, this latest version continues to offer solid performance and good looks across the board.
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Publisher's description
From LimeWire :LimeWire is a P2P file-sharing application for all types of computer files, including music, video, pictures, games, and text documents. Other features include dynamic querying, file previews during download, advanced techniques for locating rare files, and an easy, clean user interface.
LimeWire's new spam blocker gets rid of junk results, and automatic updates will keep you sharing faster than ever with the latest version. You can search for Creative Commons and Weedshare licensed files, and publish your own creative works with Creative Commons licensing. LimeWire continues its guarantee of no adware or spyware. Includes built-in bittorent support.
What's new in this version:
Version 5.3.6 updates interface for smoother navigation and BitTorrent downloads are faster.
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- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 9806 votes
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Version: LimeWire 5.3.6
"WILL NOT WORK SINCE DOWNLOADING NEW VERSION"
Pros: WILL NOT WORK TO GIVE A RATING.... FREEZES UP MY PC WHEN I TRY TO OPEN PROGRAM.
Cons: WILL NOT WORK TO GIVE A RATING.... FREEZES UP MY PC WHEN I TRY TO OPEN PROGRAM.
Summary: PC RUNS PERFECT UNTIL I TRY TO OPEN LIMEWIRE.... THEN PC FREEZES UP AND WILL NOT WORK. DON'T KNOW WHATS WRONG WITH LIMEWIRE. LIMEWIRE.COM WILL NOT ANSWER ANY EMAILS TELLING ME WHAT TO DO.. A BUMMER
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: LimeWire 5.3.6
Pros: Good choice of all categories. Fast downloads (ASDL2)
Cons: Stay away from programs/files.
SCAN SCAN SCAN Files before opening them (incl. music) use multiple anti-virus, anti-malware progs. MIRAR virus.is popular, If infected, the only prog. that wlll remove all traces, is Malwarebytes' Anti-MalwareSummary: Good resource for free music, but also good for free viruses!
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Version: LimeWire 5.3.6
Pros: Great for downloading multitude of items...like that I can set settings to not show adult items if I desire
Cons: Viruses are more likely to get you...have to be careful and scan EVERYTHING
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: LimeWire 5.3.6
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Pros: Pros: is a fast easy way to download a song or movie the less popular the longer it waill take but with a normal dsl connection a or cable connection it shouldnt take much over a minute.
Cons: Pros: Is a fast easy way to download a song or movie the less popular the longer it waill take but with a normal dsl connection a or cable connection it shouldnt take much over a minute.
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Version: LimeWire 5.3.6
Pros: I got to download a lot of music ...
Cons: ... but there was also some malware & viruses that came with it.
Summary: It's a good software, but it finds a lot of dangerous stuff that you really don't need. I ended up having to buy a new PC because of all the damage the downloads (along with the viruses in them) did to my computer.
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