Download Issues

[war59312]

Well are you running sp2 rc2 or some pre final build of sp2? If so a few builds have activex problems. Which yes can and does interfere with downloading. So upgrade to sp2 rtw.

If your already running sp2 rtw or sp1 then more info is needed.

List a few sities you cant download zip or rar from for example. If you dont want to post it in private just pm me and see what I can figure out.

But more than likly the sites you are downloading from are resecirted as already stated.

Anyways you can also see what happens when you turn Security > Internet > LOW. See if that has any effects and if so we can work from there.

I also would look in Folder Options > File Types and .zip and .rar for anything strange under the advanced tab.

If none of that works. Search for spyware and ad aware. Could be spyware trying to stop you from downloading a fix, however missguided atempt it maybe be. I personlly had to deal with one of these as of late on my brothers pc which would close IE every time you tried to download a .zip,.rar, or a .exe file. Or if the title window had something to do with spyware removel. And even worse google.com was completely disabled. lol

So who knows. And i'm sure you have tried with no appz or serivces running but if not try that. Some running program or process could be messing up ie.

Well good luck.

Will