re: The incredible disappearing downloads Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 9:34 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by AnchorMan (1465 messages posted) Sounds like an Active X problem. Open IE, tool, options, setting, view objects and delete anything that says damaged or uninstalled. Maybe malware of sorts. Other option is to quit using IE. Firefox is great. AnchorMan On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 9:19 pm, Lloyd Matthews wrote: > When I download files with IE, they will either never appear, or appear for a couple >of seconds in the designated folder and then vanish. I then can't find them anywhere >on the computer. Also, the download box closes whether or not I have "close after >download" checked. (I have XP SP2 with the latest MS updates.) > > -Dowloading with ftp in IE works fine > -Downloading with Firefox works fine > >Can anyone help me fix this problem? > -Thanks! LloydM Written in response to: The incredible disappearing downloads (Lloyd Matthews: Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 9:19 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] The incredible disappearing downloads (Lloyd Matthews: Sat, Mar 18, 2006, 9:19 pm) re: The incredible disappearing downloads (AnchorMan: Sat, Mar 18, 2006, 9:34 pm) re: The incredible disappearing downloads (C9H13NO3: Sat, Mar 18, 2006, 9:49 pm) re: The incredible disappearing downloads (AnchorMan: Wed, Mar 22, 2006, 5:03 pm) re: The incredible disappearing downloads (Lloyd Matthews: Wed, Mar 22, 2006, 8:59 pm) re: The incredible disappearing downloads (AnchorMan: Wed, Mar 22, 2006, 10:19 pm) re: The incredible disappearing downloads (Lloyd Matthews: Wed, Mar 22, 2006, 10:22 pm) re: The incredible disappearing downloads (AnchorMan: Wed, Mar 22, 2006, 10:30 pm) re: The incredible disappearing downloads (Lloyd Matthews: Wed, Mar 22, 2006, 10:40 pm) re: The incredible disappearing downloads (AnchorMan: Wed, Mar 22, 2006, 11:13 pm) re: The incredible disappearing downloads (AnchorMan: Wed, Mar 22, 2006, 11:15 pm) re: The incredible disappearing downloads (Lloyd Matthews: Thu, Mar 23, 2006, 12:51 am) re: The incredible disappearing downloads (AnchorMan: Thu, Mar 23, 2006, 1:20 am) re: The incredible disappearing downloads (AnchorMan: Thu, Mar 23, 2006, 1:39 am) Resolution? Ad-Aware and Windows Defender don't play nice together (Lloyd Matthews: Thu, Mar 23, 2006, 6:27 pm) Yup, removing WinDef fixed it! (Lloyd Matthews: Thu, Mar 23, 2006, 8:32 pm) re: Yup, removing WinDef fixed it! (AnchorMan: Thu, Mar 23, 2006, 8:49 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum