has anyone else had this problem?

[tomhardy]

i am using windows 7

and for whatever reson it will not install anything from the web...

i have tried to download msn and i click download it pops up i click run and it downloads then nothing...

this is the same for all things i try and download ... i have turn my firewall off and lowered all of IE settings to lowest security.

even if i click save instead of run nothing happens, the item does not even appear to have acctually downloaded to the place specified.
any help??

i can also open a programme an it take half an hour for it to show a responce and open!
just though i might add this =]

 

[RichFrogg]

I'm having the same problem with IE8. I started using FireFox with no problems downloading.

 

[tomhardy]

i can download with firefox also ... but wen i try and run the prgrammes it wont install them~!! its so frustrating

 

[Lelouchvib]

Essentials - Windows Live

Run > Msconfig > Start Up > Disable all items, restart and then try and install it.
Or try Safe Mode with Networking.

When was the last time you formatted?

 

[kegobeer]

What version of Windows 7 are the two of you using? RTM? RC? 32 or 64 bit? If RC, what build? Have you installed any security software?

Also - fill out your system specs (bottom left of your post).

 

[Lee]

First let me Welcome both tomhardy and RichFrogg to the "Seven Forums."
Now in order to help you determine what your problems are we will need some information about your systems.

You can post on your next reply, or there is a way that you can set it up so whenever you post a question your specs are always there. Go into "CP" and under System Specs fill in all the boxes with all the information that is requested and more if possible. Then your specs will always be available in the lower left hand corner of your post. Thank You, Lee

 

[tomhardy]

I have posted some of my specs on my profile now hope this helps.

 

[zigzag3143]

I have posted some of my specs on my profile now hope this helps.

TH

The specs do help. did you do a clean install?

Lets take a look at your event viewer by typing event viewer in search. go to windows logs>applications tab first. Look for items with red in the left column. see if there are any apps listed that relate to the problem (firefox, IE, etc) let us know if there are (there will be) and what the event ID and source code is.

then go to the system tab. look for errors and tell us about them.

ken

 

[tomhardy]

FIrst of all thanks secondly I did the update and kept my files!
there are lotts of red crosses
Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-WMI
Date: 09/10/2009 23:11:42
Event ID: 24
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Thomas-Main
Description:
Event provider PDEventsProvider attempted to register query "SELECT * FROM PDEvent" whose target class "PDEvent" in //./ROOT/default namespace does not exist. The query will be ignored.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-WMI" Guid="{1edeee53-0afe-4609-b846-d8c0b2075b1f}" EventSourceName="WinMgmt" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">24</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-10-09T22:11:42.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>105705</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Thomas-Main</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>PDEventsProvider</Data>
<Data>SELECT * FROM PDEvent</Data>
<Data>PDEvent</Data>
<Data>//./ROOT/default</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

no idea what that is?
there are more...

 

[tomhardy]

there are a few drivers being block in the sytems tab also ... i hope this is helping..

Log Name: System
Source: bowser
Date: 13/10/2009 00:03:49
Event ID: 8003
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Thomas-Main
Description:
The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer THOMAS-PC that believes that it is the master browser for the domain on transport NetBT_Tcpip_{7D0EF334-DDFF-4C17-AC33-E5303655. The master browser is stopping or an election is being forced.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="bowser" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">8003</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-10-12T23:03:49.080078100Z" />
<EventRecordID>52125</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Thomas-Main</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>\Device\LanmanDatagramReceiver</Data>
<Data>THOMAS-PC</Data>
<Data>NetBT_Tcpip_{7D0EF334-DDFF-4C17-AC33-E5303655</Data>
<Binary>000000000300280000000000431F00C0000000000000000001000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

 

[zigzag3143]

Tom

The error 24 is a time service error. Is the date and time correct on the computer?

the 8003 is more serious. Its a master browser unexpectedly quit. thats something we can work on later but not the cause.

To save your typing fingers you can just give me the event ID= and the source code=. Just trying to make it easier on you. Keep looking. If nec we can start taking screenshots of them.\

The event viewer is a log of almost everything that happens on your computer. You are going to become familiar with it. One way to help diax it is whenever you have the problem go into event viewer immediately after and see what just happened.

Try a download and when it fails cdheck event viewer.

ken

 

[tomhardy]

I have just discovered that if i download using firefox the download manager will hole the file but when i try and run any of them i get the folowing error message

C:\Users\Thomas\Downloads\.... is not a valid Win32 application.
This is the same for any exe file i try and download and install... even wen i am downloading from microsoft a file which i know is windows 7 32bit compatable

 

[tomhardy]

application Hang 1002 and yes the time and date on my computer is correct

 

[RichFrogg]

I just wanted to say thanks for the welcome. Sorry about not posting the System specs yet, I posted from work and didn't have the time. I did an upgrade install and now when I bring up System Information there's no info showing up. I'm going to go ahead and do a clean install and I'll post back any info I get.

 

[usasma]

The second error (the Master Browser) isn't really an error that you should be concerned with. This error happens on networks where you use hibernation/sleep on some of the systems.

What happens is that that sleeping computer goes to sleep thinking it's the Master Browser. While it's sleeping another computer assumes the duties as the Master Browser. Then the sleeping computer wakes up (and still assumes it's the Master Browser) and generates the conflict.

The 2 computers then get together and fight it out for the Master Browser title. Only one can win, so the other loses and generates an error. After that everything is fine and life goes on without errors.

The only time that this should be a problem for you is if the error is repeated constantly (and independently of any sleep/hibernation) - that would indicate that there's a problem that needs looking into.

 

[zigzag3143]

I have just discovered that if i download using firefox the download manager will hole the file but when i try and run any of them i get the folowing error message

C:\Users\Thomas\Downloads\.... is not a valid Win32 application.
This is the same for any exe file i try and download and install... even wen i am downloading from microsoft a file which i know is windows 7 32bit compatable

Tom

The "not a valid 32 bit" error is because the file download isn't finishing. when this happens there is usually 2 files with the same name like phohoshop.zip photoshop.zip.part1

when the download finishes they are combined

Ken

 

[tomhardy]

this is so frustrating ? what can i do?

 

[kegobeer]

Did you do a clean install yet?

 

[tomhardy]

but wont that remove alll my files and programms that are already installed?

 

[kegobeer]

Yes it will. It's easy to back up your data, just copy files, music, pictures, etc, to a thumb drive or put it on another partition. You'll have to install your applications and hardware drivers again, but it's really not that difficult. With the issues you have, I think a clean install is the best way to fix everything.