Do what I said in my previous post anyway.

But it occurs to me that this symptom suggests you had done a partial download, and 
the download is trying to resume. But of course it can't, because you've deleted 
all the Stopzilla files. So it goes up a dead-end loop, and you're stuffed!

Do you have a download manager installed? Perhaps integrated into Internet Explorer? 
That will be what's causing it to try to resume the download.

Give it the old three finger salute, and kill the download - which might be an incompletely 
closed instance of Internet Explorer.

You would be best with a stand-alone download manager. Having one as a plug-in for 
IE can cause problems.

Ed






On Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 7:47 am, John wrote:

>most problems I get on the pc are self-inflicted..this is no exception. I was half 

>way through downloading Stopzilla and decided it was going on too long . I had two 

>or three attempts to stop it downloading before it finally did just that. Then I 

>cleared out all the files I could find associated with it. Now I have a really annoying 

>intermitant problem. When I return to desk top after surfing and either click on 

>shutdown or even Int explorer again...the hour glass icon kicks in and no action. 

>This does not happen every time.When I try Ctrl Alt Del it comes up with 'Explorer' 

>After a long wait the problem may clear but not always. Ive virus checked and also 

>used Spybot.Please help .... John. 

>ps  I dont have Windows Me but have a shrewd idea that it doesnt make any difference 

>in this case. 

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