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re: Ive done it again...hour glass icon
Friday, March 9, 2007 at 12:35 am
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Posted by John (66 messages posted)


Ed you were right, not sure how I managed it but following your advice the problem and hourglass have gone, eureka!!! Many thanks again for your help.. John.


On Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 2:10 pm, Ed wrote:
>
>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
>
>


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re: Ive done it again...hour glass icon (Ed: Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 2:10 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Ive done it again...hour glass icon (John: Thu, Feb 22, 2007, 7:47 am)
-re: Ive done it again...hour glass icon (Ms. Eagle: Sat, Feb 24, 2007, 11:10 pm)
-re: Ive done it again...hour glass icon (John: Sun, Feb 25, 2007, 1:51 am)
*re: Ive done it again...hour glass icon (Ed: Tue, Mar 6, 2007, 10:30 pm)
*re: Ive done it again...hour glass icon (John: Wed, Mar 7, 2007, 11:08 am)
-re: Ive done it again...hour glass icon (Ed: Thu, Mar 8, 2007, 2:10 pm)
*re: Ive done it again...hour glass icon (John: Fri, Mar 9, 2007, 12:35 am)
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