Problems With Dowloading Games Off The Internet.

[Alicia]

Hello,
Last night My Brother Tryed to download
a game off this web site he found.
It wasn't a game you download and
play on the web site,
It is a game you download onto your
computer. (onto your hard drive)
And Just today I tryed to download a
word processor off a web site onto my
hard drive, and the same thing happened
To me, that happened to my brother.
We get to the download part and it
asks " save to disk" or "Open file"
I picked open file cause I dont want to
save it to a disk. Then it starts to download.
It downloads the whole thing.
Then a file comes up named "file download".
"file download" comes up and flashes really fast
and it wont go away. I had restart the computer
to get rid of it, and then lose the file I was trying
to download. Anything I try to download of the internet does this! Does anyone know why?
Hope someone can help
Thanks
Alicia.

 

[gunthnp]

try downloading gozilla it free and it a download mangeryou can get it form gozilla.com see if it happen with that

 

[JillC]

Hi Alicia,

Sometimes websites allow you to download info sheets in Acrobat format (for example) which can either be run within your browser or downloaded to your hard disk and read later using Acrobat reader or your browser. In that case, you may "Open file" at the download prompt.

If you are attempting to download a game, it is almost certainly a single file in a compressed format which needs to be executed (or run) so that all the files it contains are extracted and placed in an appropriate folder on your hard disk, and possibly an icon placed on your desktop. So if you attempted to "Open file" rather than "save to disk" your poor old computer has a terrible struggle trying to achieve the impossible.

Step 1 - make a new folder in your hard disk called Internet Downloads.
Step 2 - Save to disk any files you download making certain that you specify your Internet Downloads folder (then you'll be able to find it in Windows Explorer).
Step 3 - Run your virus scan specifically over your newly downloaded file. If you are at all uncertain about it, sometimes you can view the contents by using Winzip prior to extracting the files. Winzip also allows you to scan every file before being extracted.
Step 4 - Double click on the file to extract it, and (if necessary) run the setup for it.

By the way, there is absolutely no excuse NOT to have an up-to-date antivirus program. Home users can use a free version of the best one around - if you haven't got an antivirus program the first thing you must do is go to antivirus.ca.com and download InnoculateIT PE.