OT: Help needed with vista (General)
At 30 JUL 2009 02:18:40PM [email protected] wrote:
Ultimate home vista (latest patch levels)
For some reason everytime i try to download something it gets deleted after completion of download. using either Firefox or explorer.
In firefox i have tried changing where it is saving the file. The behavior is the same. It creates the file with 0 bytes and a '.part' file. upon completion it renames the '.part' file the file name and then it simply gets deleted. Not to the trash but completely deleted.
Has anyone seen anything like this. ideas of where to look/setting to change.
tia
At 30 JUL 2009 02:31PM Bob Carten wrote:
I have seen this on non-vista machines with antivirus software.
Have you turned off UAC?
The seems to be a common cause of the problem
see http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/6555-downloaded-files-disappear-actually-never-appear.html
At 30 JUL 2009 03:34PM [email protected] wrote:
Oh my … my av expired and i hadn't renewed as i am on the road it seems to turn out that with av i can't save any downloaded files. I renewed and POW files save fine
Any known way to turn something like that off? Or are we just stuck with the nanny state?
Thanks for the pointer though, i might never have put the two together
DSig
At 30 JUL 2009 04:33PM John Bouley wrote:
What AV product are you using?
At 30 JUL 2009 08:00PM [email protected] wrote:
Nod32 from Eset. It has been working great but i didn't renew in time. It must have been one of the recent updates as I have been using this laptop for about 5 months and had downloaded tools before.