Help! My computer is refusing to download any files.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I click, it thinks for a bit, then nothing.

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, what browser is it happening in?

Presumably all sites...

Have you tried right clicking and doing a save-as?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Netscape 7.1. That might have helped.

I tried the Fantasy Empires Mod download in Spoon's sig, the PBW site for same and tried to download an e-book from baen. In addition, I tried saving a .jpg

Yep.

[ July 24, 2004, 22:37: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, try a different browser and check for spyware/hijackers.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

ie's download is working. I've started Ad-Aware. How would I look for hijackers?

Oh yeah. When I right-click, it goes to the save as window, but clicking save does nothing.

[ July 24, 2004, 23:09: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, adaware is a good start, spybot is a good teammate for it as well.

You could try hitting CTRL-ALT-DELETE, and checking to see what processes are running.
Google for the ones you don't recognize and post 'em here.

[Baron Munchausen]

Contemporary viruses and trojans are actually smart enough to hide themselves from the built-in task list. You need something 'non-standard' to check for them that way. Unfortunately, the problem being discussed is inability to download so I don't know how you'd acquire something like Powertoys or Kerneltoys with some extra Windows snooping tools (from the MS Programmers themselves, no less!) with that problem in the way.

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Contemporary viruses and trojans are actually smart enough to hide themselves from the built-in task list. You need something 'non-standard' to check for them that way. Unfortunately, the problem being discussed is inability to download so I don't know how you'd acquire something like Powertoys or Kerneltoys with some extra Windows snooping tools (from the MS Programmers themselves, no less!) with that problem in the way. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I had this problem a long time ago. With Fyrons advice i got my friend to download the firefox installation file and send me it via MSN Messenger and installed it, i soon spent many hours removing internet explorer from my computer and haven't used it since.

Long Live Firefox http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[Kamog]

I too have followed Fyron's advice and have been using Firefox for a while now, and I'm very happy with it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Contemporary viruses and trojans are actually smart enough to hide themselves from the built-in task list. You need something 'non-standard' to check for them that way. Unfortunately, the problem being discussed is inability to download so I don't know how you'd acquire something like Powertoys or Kerneltoys with some extra Windows snooping tools (from the MS Programmers themselves, no less!) with that problem in the way. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Netscape is the only thing that can't download. everything else, including ie, is downloading fine. Where are these things?

As for SJ's processes idea, I don't recognize most of the stuff there.

[Fyron]

Try uninstalling Netscape and reinstalling it. Make sure to back up your bookmarks file first...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

* Faints at the thought of getting all those web-comic bookmarks back the hard way.

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Raging Deadstar:
i soon spent many hours removing internet explorer from my computer and haven't used it since.

Long Live Firefox http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Woah. You removed IE? That's a neat little trick, or some would say, an impossible task. Care to share how that's done? I'd like to do it to Outlook, Express, Media Player, the XP tour, etc.