Windows 7: Application download did not succeed

Application download did not succeed. Check your network connection, or contact your system administrator or network service provider. That what a family member of mine gets when they try to download anything off of the internet. Its old probably running windows xp or older. Anyone know what the problem is and how to fix it, hits on Google dont explain, only for this one click thing

I know this is windows 7 forum but maybe it pertains to us also

Come on

Could you please give more information on the issue: operation system of that computer, browser, may be some error codes? What type of content is being downloaded, what website?

Screenshots actually would work too.

its not my pc but im trying to work on it remotley. No downloads at all are possible. Its windows xp and internet explorer

I understand. But, still more info is required:
How all this started?
Is that a home computer or office?
Was it always like that or let's say installation of some other software triggered that?
Please also check if user has Administrative rights using this tutorial.

Also, just a suggestion: have your relative tried any alternative browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Opera?

hello,

I'm having the same problem, at first google chrome stoped working and a suggested solution was to check my firewall and add google chrom to allow list and I did but it didn't work anyway, so I deleted the google crhome and tried to reinstall it but i got this message "application download did not succed" and:
" PLATFORM VERSION INFO
Windows : 6.1.7601.65536 (Win32NT)
Common Language Runtime : 4.0.30319.296
System.Deployment.dll : 4.0.30319.1 (RTMRel.030319-0100)
clr.dll : 4.0.30319.296 (RTMGDR.030319-2900)
dfdll.dll : 4.0.30319.1 (RTMRel.030319-0100)
dfshim.dll : 4.0.31106.0 (Main.031106-0000)
SOURCES
Deployment url : https://dl.google.com/update2/1.3.21...defaultbrowser
ERROR SUMMARY
Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
* Activation of https://dl.google.com/update2/1.3.21...defaultbrowser resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
+ Downloading https://dl.google.com/update2/1.3.21...defaultbrowser did not succeed.
+ Unable to connect to the remote server
+ An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions [2404:6800:4001:c01::be]:443
COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY
No transaction error was detected.
WARNINGS
There were no warnings during this operation.
OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS
* [4/19/2013 4:33:32 PM] : Activation of https://dl.google.com/update2/1.3.21...defaultbrowser has started.
ERROR DETAILS
Following errors were detected during this operation.
* [4/19/2013 4:33:39 PM] System.Deployment.Application.DeploymentDownloadException (Unknown subtype)
- Downloading https://dl.google.com/update2/1.3.21...defaultbrowser did not succeed.
- Source: System.Deployment
- Stack trace:
at System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadSingleFile(DownloadQueueItem next)
at System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadAllFiles()
at System.Deployment.Application.FileDownloader.Download(SubscriptionState subState)
at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadManifestAsRawFile(Uri& sourceUri, String targetPath, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, ServerInformation& serverInformation)
at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestDirectBypass(SubscriptionSto re subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, ServerInformation& serverInformation)
at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestBypass(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options)
at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivation(Uri activationUri, Boolean isShortcut, String textualSubId, String deploymentProviderUrlFromExtension, BrowserSettings browserSettings, String& errorPageUrl)
at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.ActivateDeploymentWorker(Object state)
--- Inner Exception ---
System.Net.WebException
- Unable to connect to the remote server
- Source: System
- Stack trace:
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadSingleFile(DownloadQueueItem next)
--- Inner Exception ---
System.Net.Sockets.SocketException
- An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions [2404:6800:4001:c01::be]:443
- Source: System
- Stack trace:
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoConnect(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress)
at System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal(Boolean connectFailure, Socket s4, Socket s6, Socket& socket, IPAddress& address, ConnectSocketState state, IAsyncResult asyncResult, Int32 timeout, Exception& exception)
COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION DETAILS
No transaction information is available. "