bigmac

Old hand to PC's, but a newbie to Vista.

I'm trying to get the PC I've built loaded with up-to-date drivers, software etc... The PC's is running Vista ultimate and Norton (NIS ver 10.2.0.30).

When I visit any WWW (like asus, skype, nvidia), click on a link to download something, get the prompt "do you want to Run, Save, Cancel". Click Save, point it to where I want to save it. Wait. Then when the download has finished, off I trot to find it and .... nada, niente, zilch . In short, no downloaded file. Very odd.

Anyone got any ideas? 'Cos I'm stumped. Is there some weird and wonderful feature Mr Gates has imposed on me, that I don't know about?

Cheers.

djuk

Nope whatever it is, it's not a Windows feature...

You're sure you are looking in the right place? The default download location in Vista is C:\users\yourname\Downloads

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Not necessarily djuk.

Might be Vista's UAC stopping you from saving a file to a specific directory maybe? Turn off UAC in control panel/user accounts/user account control on/off temporarily to rule it out.

To be honest I would stay well clear of any norton products.

djuk

I did think that but there would be some notification or error denying permission...

AVZ

Well you should be able to prove if its Norton. Turn Norton of and try

bioforger

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Nope, before I turned it off, it wouldn't even save files from notepad. You'd issue the command to save, but there was no error/denied message at all. Might be different for dloads, nvr tried it, UAC stays off permanently, complete nuisance otherwise

Iain Young

Where are you trying to save the files?

bigmac

I had over 1 years subscription left on Norton, hence why I am using it (read, tight git!). Will change eventually.

I normally partition my pcs (c drive = os, w drive = work, g= games, d=demos/downloads). You get the idea.

Tried to download to D drive. No luck. Then I noticed this "download" folder that Vista created under my user. So I tried there. No luck.

I am not on my Vista machine at the moment, but will try all of your ideas (from above), when I am next using it.

Many thanks.

Have a nice weekend to you all.

Mark.

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

Again as said above I could only thinks its the windows permissions, stopping it from saving, when windows downloads it does so to a temp folder and then copies over, make a note of the file name and search for it ??

djuk

This is what happens when you try to download to a folder in vista where you don't have the appropriate permissions..

finalzero

Remove Vista and install Windows XP Pro, works great for me

Norton is a bag of... as well, its resource hungry and as proven on many forums, a trojan writers dream. I recommend something like Sygate Firewall or the McAfee suite of apps.

bigmac

Tried all of the above. Still had the problem.

So, I did a uninstall of all Norton related apps. Problem solved.

Now, a new problem, to read all the reviews on other protection software and find something better to use...

Thanks for all of your help and suggestions.

Iain Young

Nod32. It's the best one out there and works great on Vista