Windows 7 Downloading Issues Via IE & Firefox Browsers

[Fast Jimmy]

[FONT=&quot]I went through 14 pages of results for ‘Downloading Failure’ and was unable to find anything relevant to my issue. If I have missed something previously posted I apologize for the redundancy.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I also read MANY Google results for the same search without finding any solution.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Some months back my wife’s Toshiba suffered a major issue and she replaced it with a HP G72-B60US. This notebook has an Intel i3 [email protected], has 4GB memory, and runs Windows Seven Home Premium 64 Bit SP1.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I initially set it up for her but very seldom even touch it.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Recently she was having email issues (using Thunderbird 3) and asked me to take a look at it. I noticed that there was a Thunderbird update available so I thought I would just download it in the hopes that it would cure the issue[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Using Firefox we attempted (several times) to download the update. It would seemingly go through the download process but then it would not be there. I have set Firefox to ask where to download and checked that folder AND the entire HD. As we are on HughesNet and it was in the evening I could actually watch the .part file grow in size. Then when the download was ‘complete’ the file would disappear.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]If I right clicked on the file in the Firefox Downloads the ‘Open’ and ‘Open Containing Folder’ ARE NOT highlighted.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I finally downloaded the file to my Vista notebook and put it over via a jump drive.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I have tried the following with the noted results.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Download A Picture From A Web Site (Right Click – Save As) [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]IE 64 Bit Yes[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]IE 32 Bit Yes[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Firefox No[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Save A Picture From An Email Attachment (Using Thunderbird 10.0.1)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Right Click Save As While Clicking On Picture Yes[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Right Click Save As While Clicking On Picture’s Name Yes[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Download A File From A Website[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]IE 64 Bit No[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]IE32 Bit No[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Firefox No[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Download An Update From An Application.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]CCleaner No (This application sends you to a web site and then you must initiate the download)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]RevoUninstaller Yes (This application initiates the download, updates itself but does NOT save a copy to the HD)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]FileZilla Yes This application initiates the download, saves a copy to the HD, [/FONT][FONT=&quot]and updates itself.[/FONT][FONT=&quot])[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Download a file via ftp (Filezilla 3.5.3) Yes[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I just used Windows Update to download W7 SP1and a Windows Essentials definition update. It downloaded both without any problems. But unfortunately had no positive effect on the downloading issue.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Thanks for any suggestions.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]FJ[/FONT]

 

[Layback Bear]

Open Windows Explorer/upper left click on downloads and see if you can find them there.

 

[Fast Jimmy]

[FONT=&quot]Thanks for the response.
I know the post was long but I wanted to provide as much information as I could.
Perhaps you missed where I noted:

"I have set Firefox to ask where to download and checked that folder AND the entire HD."

Thanks
FJ
[/FONT]

 

[Layback Bear]

Yes I did see that. I hope your not screaming at me. I understand that you told Windows 7 where to put downloads but it seems like it didn't do that. So I gave you another place to look. If it's not there I can't help you.
Have a nice day.

 

[Fast Jimmy]

Again "Thanks for the response".

As I don't twitter I guess I don't know all the cryptic meanings but I thought all caps was shouting not boldface.

It was meant to merely point out that I knew where the file was supposed to be (an indeed was until it was completely downloaded) and that I had looked in that location as well as elsewhere.

Sorry if my intent was misunderstood.

FJ