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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: comda on September 26, 2013, 08:08:34 AM

Title: windows XP won't finish downloading items.
Post by: comda on September 26, 2013, 08:08:34 AM

Greetings CH!

Recently i had a HDD fry in my older P4 System. Its Still a decent system that plays games quite well so i decided to reinstall windows XP. I have a few different Cds, Home edition, Professional, and 64bit. Anyways i installed SP3 pro last night and when i went on the internet to download the usual flash, java firefox i couldnt download them. All the downloads would stop at 99 percent and be like 1kb away from completing. I was able to use another system to get my drivers but i still cant download much. what is the issue? is there a fix?

System Specs
P4 3Ghz with hyperthreading
2.25Gb Ram DDr
80gb western digital drive
Ati 9600 Pro 256mb graphics. 

Title: Re: windows XP won't finish downloading items.
Post by: patio on September 26, 2013, 08:16:42 AM

What type of internet connection do you have ? ?
Are you using an addon DLoad Manager ? ?
What Browser ? ?

Title: Re: windows XP won't finish downloading items.
Post by: comda on September 26, 2013, 08:59:03 AM

well first i tried using internet explorer to download firefox. but no go. i download firefox 12 and tried to update to the newest version and still no go. What is a Dload manager?

My internet connection is DSL 6 mb/s all my other systems download fine. This system worked fine until the first drive died due to being dropped.

Title: Re: windows XP won't finish downloading items.
Post by: patio on September 26, 2013, 09:10:58 AM

Try Firefox 12 as is...forget the update for now...
download manager. is what i meant