RE: Incomplete downloads

From: tboatcap (tboatcap_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/27/05


Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:11:03 -0800

I have the exact same problem and have searched all over the place to try and
find an answer, so far nothing. Any help would be grear before I have to
re-install xp.

"JL" wrote:

> When trying to download a file of say 5MB in size, the file is only 3MB in my
> hard disk.
> This has happened several times recently in different websites (i.e. When
> downloading Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta).
> If I try to download the file several times I get different sizes each time
> in my hard disk. One time after trying to download a file several times, it
> did download completely, but that's rare, usually I am not able to download
> the file successfully.
>
> I don't get any message from IE when downloading the file. The progress bar
> seems to get to 100% and even it say "5MB downloaded of 5MB" in the text
> below the progress bar. I don't know what's going on.
>
> Does somebody know how to fix this?
>
> I recently changed to broadband and installed XP SP2, before that I didn't
> get incomplete downloads.



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