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| Thread ID: 72208 | 2006-09-04 03:11:00 | IE timed out while long download! | Jim (9896) | Press F1 |
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| 482474 | 2006-09-04 03:11:00 | I/we have a new computer and I have been trying to download all the new files for Norton Antivirus. I have no trouble linking to the site BUT because there are so many large files the connection times out before I am finished :groan: (I know there will also be some large up date files to download for some of the other programs) I know I did something on my "old computer" to IE v6 that solved the problem but I can't find out what I did. Can someone please jog my memory |
Jim (9896) | ||
| 482475 | 2006-09-04 04:26:00 | Hello Jim. Are you on dial-up or broadband connection? Are you living in somewhere rural? Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 482476 | 2006-09-04 05:08:00 | Dial up - Richmond, Nelson. I did something to IE on my other computer and it stays on line until I have finished downloadind even if they are long | Jim (9896) | ||
| 482477 | 2006-09-04 06:38:00 | support.microsoft.com this may help |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 482478 | 2006-09-04 07:23:00 | Jim, why not use a download manager? I use an old version of FreshDownload and it works perfectly, resuming file downloads if the connection is dropped. A recent issue of PCW came with a disk with "Free Download Manager", or find others on www.download.com - all freebies. Aaaaand, why oh why are you still using IE...?!! Dump it ASAP and use Firefox (or Opera, Netscape, anything else). |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 482479 | 2006-09-04 22:44:00 | Thanks to all those replied. I talked to a neighbouring friend and he gave me the clue. We went into Disply Properties>Power and set the turning off of the hard disc etc to never. I have now got all my Norton Downloads done and am getting my Windows updrades up to date (I must remember to reset it when I get it all up to date) Thanks :blush: |
Jim (9896) | ||
| 482480 | 2006-09-05 03:57:00 | Yeah. :stare: ..but are you still gonna use IE? :stare: Firefox is much safer :thumbs: and will protect you from a lot of things that go "bump" in the night. Come back later when you want to get rid of Norton too....or just do a search here on this site for a lot of interesting (to say the least) anecdotal evidence pro-and-con the Norton/Symantec debate. :xmouth: |
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