Internet Explorer dowload to get my firewall

After a free upgrade from a friend, I installed windows ME, got everything working including my Internet (Cable LAN).

All up to today I could use internet explorer and go to various sites and download, but now I cant download anything. Internet still works but when I click a link to download, the window opens asking save/open, I can choose save or open it don't mater, and basicaly the download will sit at 0%, the speed and rated time left are not loaded. This was not hapening earlyer today.

Now because of this I cannot download my firewall. Now I had a firewall earlyer, outpost, decided to go back to kerio and put that in. since then I believe the problem started. No firewalls are loaded right now, I checked startup and everything and uninstalled all firewalls.

I tryed a system restore, i tryed varios restore points and all failed.

I thought ok I have netscape on a CD so I will install it, well screw that, its version 4.5 and as soon as you launch it, it forces you to create an acount and you must have a dialup, it has no option for LAN setup.

Could try puting windows ME CD back in and install again without format. Any ideas?

Greetings, Journy101!

Background processes *might* be interfering with IE's operations. Turn off the Anti-Virus, Win Doctor, Protected Recycle Bin, p2p's, and clean sweep. Does this fix the problem?

Doesn't sound like you have a firewall as of yet, but turn off any firewalls or ad-blockers of the sort.

Perform a repair of Internet Explorer. From Control Panel select Add/Remove Programs. Scroll down to Microsoft Internet Explorer and highlight it. Click on the Add/Remove button. When the IE Tools menu comes up, select Repair. Click OK.

[gloworange]If all else fails, download IE Radicator @ http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html (remember to backup your fav's first). Eradicate IE, and proceed to the next step.[/gloworange]

Reinstall IE. Boom. Should work.

Good Luck.

I have atached a screenshot of the problem plus my task list.

Ok i closed my antivirus and my other programs. In the CTRL-ALT-DEL only 4 items remaining, but yet the problem is still here.

Tryed repair internet Explorer, and reboot, but that failed to solve the problem either. Just finished installing windows ME again without format, and that did not solve either.

Corect there are no firewalls and now no antivirus. Tasklist looks prity empty.

I was gona get IE Radicator but I can't download anything, catch 22.

I would prefer not to format. Any other Ideas?

I'm not sure if you went to Windows Update and downloaded the most recent version of IE 6 or not. Since it is web based it might let you download the updates. I'm not sure but if it works then there you go.

I've seen this happen before...

When I would download, the progress bar and the status never updated, but the download continued. To confirm that this is happening... save something to a temp folder and open an explorer window. Refresh the screen and use the detailed view to see if the file size increases.

Try to update IE and the OS as much as possible. Upgrading from IE5.5 to IE6sp1 solved my problem.

Oh, BTW: for m$ boxes, if you ever pull down large files and want to keep better tabs on them... use a download manager. I use fresh download from fresh devices. It is free with NO spyware but they do require you to register with them. I have gotten no spam from them as of yet and I've been using it for over 6 months. It will give you a status on your downloads AND if your download was to be interrupted... you can start where you left off... you don't have to start all over again.

http://www.freshdevices.com/

Had done windows update earlyer today with IE SP1 and cirticle updates.

I tyed your teqnique for seeing if progress bar is not refrshing but is downloading. I opened Windows Explorer, created a C:\Temp and went to get a small 431kb download from www.webattack.com. I got my C:\Temp opened in explorer and kept hitting refresh for one minute, it remains a 0 byte folder with no files unfortunately.

So it seems that the progress bar is ok, and that the file stream is not being opened or something.

Its realy confuseing, well anyway I went back to system restore and finaly got it to restore. The date i restored to yesterday, so at that point my windows updates are gone. So I go back to do a windows update, but not luck still.

Im concidering formating but I formated yesterday and would prefer not to do it again any time soon. But if It comes down to it I will.

Scandisk has no errors, didn't think that would make a difernce but i did one, and the defrag is done too.

any other sugestions?

Check to see that you don't have any incorrect settings in your IE settings...

Tools --> internet options --> connections --> lan settings.

change to reflect environment. If you're not using a proxy, uncheck use proxy and make sure that automatically find is checked off.

Also, check to see that you have downloads enabled.

Tools --> internet options --> security --> custom

browse to the downloads section, and make sure that it is enabled.

You can also default the settings and that should enable downloads again.

LAN settings ok, tryed both automaticaly detect settings as sugest by my isp, and with it unchecked, makes no difernce. Not useing any proxy. Looks ok.

For IE Options>Security I checked and under Downloads> File Download> Enable

Looks ok for those settings.

Earlyer I forgot to mention I tryed Restore Defaults and Reset Web Settings but made no difernce, just tryed it again, and same.

Any other thoughts or things to try?

Were you able to download with the download manager? I know I've had problems in the past with my MTU not being set correctly...

You can tweak your MTU via registry ... or Dr. TCP.

Can't download anything, can't get any download manager : (

Im gona play with the registry settings in your first link now, however I noticed the Dr. TCP link also has downloads in which I also can't get.

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Originally posted here by journy101
Can't download anything, can't get any download manager : (

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Doh! My bad... lack of sleep is getting to me. :p

I just finished reading through your first link on max MTU value for optimization

I did not get a packets needed to be fragemented error, so acording to the instructions
1472 + 28 = 1500 and they said this is tipical for non-PPOE, which I am Cable LAN so makes sence.

Thanks for that link, though it did not help because my MTU is already at optimized value, it was a very facinateing read.

I know this is probably a stupid question... but did you try a reboot?

I'm sure you have already... but I have to ask.

Oh, you may want to also reboot your router and modem... to make sure its not a problem there.

Yep rebooted plenty.

I just did a format and put back Windows ME fresh. Everything fine now. Now I just have to customize everything again.

I want to thank you all so much for helping me with this problem it was greatly apreciated.

Thanks for hanging in there with me,.

BTW My friend just went out and got a new ASUS motherbard, new case and new stuff, so he gave me his old computer which is why I can finaly install Windows ME.

This one he gave me is a 1GHz Intel Celeron, 256MB RAM But I still have my tiny 2GB drive, maybe next month I buy a biger drive.

All this for free can you believe it?

Hi, I know that this thread is alsmost closed, but I have a few thoughts that might help anyone who runs a search on AO.

I have the following running Windows Me:

PII/266 128Mb RAM IE6/SP1....................unstable
PII/333 384Mb RAM IE5.5........................stable
PII/450 384MB RAM IE 5.5......................stable
P4/1.7GHz 768MB RAM IE5.5.....................unstable
AMD Duron 1.3GHz 512MB RAM IE5.5.......stable

I am beginning to suspect that IE6 and the WIN Me OS do not get on too well? I also suspect that the problems (there are others) that I sometimes encounter with the P4 are due to the fact that it has TOO MUCH memory? It is a personal guess that 98/98se/Me can only handle 512MB reliably?

Friends who run 98 systems have also mentioned some problems with IE6 (not sure about SP1), and have gone back to 5.5

If your problems return, you might consider these experiences. Has anyone else come across anything similar?

Over here in England, you can usually find browser software on the front cover CDs of computer magazines.....you just need to borrow an old one from a friend.

I have also heard that you do not always get a clean uninstall of later versions of IE.....I did not keep a record of the article so you will have to search the MS support site and the Net for this, and what to do about it.

Hope that this helps someone

Cheers

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just PM me and let me know if you want me to :)

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Yes problem fixed...

>> It is a personal guess that 98/98se/Me can only handle 512MB reliably?

Got this from help file fro Cacheman (a free memory manager)

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This setting limits total available RAM to 512 MBytes. Windows 95,98 and ME does officially support 512 MBytes at all, with more installed RAM it can become very unstable. If you are using multiple operating systems on your computer and have due to this usage more than 512 MBytes installed it is recommended to check this setting. Windows 95,98 or ME gets no real advantages of more than 512 MBytes anyway.

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you can get Cacheman from

http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_...d89de28faea2ec