First off, go to

http://www.limewire.com/english/
content/downloadfree2.shtml

Now if you are on a pc (rather than a Mac) simply click on the respective button.

When prompted what to do simply click on save, now I would suggest saving the file to your desktop as this is the most easily accessible.

So after clicking on save;

You will be prompted to select a location; if you just click on the folder (that is highlighted below) you will be taken to your desktop.
(you may have to click it two or three times until you see that desktop is highlighted.)

After selecting desktop, click on save. When file has finished downloading you can either run it straight from the download box, or minimize your browser window and double click the lime.exe file that is now on your desktop.

After installing the program as normal choose to run it. Make sure you are connected to the internet and that your firewall and antivirus software aren't blocking it.

You will be presented with a nag screen promoting the PRO version, just click on later. Before you first use the search, go to my music folder and create a new folder called limewire or something you recognise.

Then go to tools and select options.

Click on saving and then browse to my music and pick on the folder you have just created. This is where all of your downloaded files will go.

Now do exactly the same for your shared folder, which is directly below sharing.

Now close this box and we're back to the search screen.

Now for instance say we wanted an album by Katie Melua, we would select Audio then enter the name IN THE TOP BOX. Don't fill out artist etc. As nobody else does -or the amount of people who do is negligible- so (in my experience) will not return decent results. Then click on search (or press return).

Now when you are finished searching, if you click on the size twice they will be assorted in descending order as you can see by the size of the top three files that they are obviously albums.

Now if it was just an album, I would try, "Melua album".

Again, click on size to get the largest items to the top.

Simply select the items you want (keeping Ctrl key pressed while clicking will enable you to select as many as you want at the same time + pressing shift and clicking on two items will highlight those items and all of the ones in between + keyboard shortcuts are Ctrl+a to select all then by keeping Ctrl pressed you can click on highlighted items to de-select them.) then click on download at the bottom of the display or right click on any highlighted item and select download. For individual items just double click.

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IMPORTANT: There are one or two trojans kicking about on all Peer2Peer networks.
ALWAYS AVOID ANY FILES THAT ARE, ".exe" FORMAT.
ALWAYS AVOID ANY FILES THAT ARE SIZED, "197.7KB" & "851.7KB".
I have downloaded these several times AND EVERY SINGLE TIME IT IS A TROJAN!!!!!
HONESTLY, this information is shared NO-WHERE ELSE, but it is 100% accurate.
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