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I am unable to download anything from the internet. It appears to be
downloading, but doesn't register anywhere on my drives. Help!

I've had the same problem with no solution yet, but I think it has something
to do with the uac program
--
Rich Wolcott
Dell XPS 400
Pentium D 2.8G Dual Core


"Lon Carpenter" <lcarpenter@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
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>I am unable to download anything from the internet. It appears to be
>downloading, but doesn't register anywhere on my drives. Help!

Hi,

UAC prevents programs from installing without an acknowledgement from the
user. It also prevents access to changing/altering system critical files
without acknowledgement from the user. It doesn't prevent a user from
downloading a file, but it will make them aware of the danger of running a
file that was downloaded without knowing and trusting the source.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"rwolcott" <rwolcott1@stny.rr.com> wrote in message
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> I've had the same problem with no solution yet, but I think it has
> something to do with the uac program
> --
> Rich Wolcott
> Dell XPS 400
> Pentium D 2.8G Dual Core
>
>
> "Lon Carpenter" <lcarpenter@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:LezXg.46844$DU3.33522@tornado.texas.rr.com...
>>I am unable to download anything from the internet. It appears to be
>>downloading, but doesn't register anywhere on my drives. Help!
>

When you download and select save, you are prompted as to where to place the
file. The default location is the user's documents folder. You should always
make note of where you are downloading to or else how are you going to know
where to go once its done?.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Lon Carpenter" <lcarpenter@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
news:LezXg.46844$DU3.33522@tornado.texas.rr.com...
>I am unable to download anything from the internet. It appears to be
>downloading, but doesn't register anywhere on my drives. Help!

Rick - Yes, I know to be sure and remember the file I identified for saving
the file. Unfortunately, everything appears normal during the download
except when I finish, not only is the file not where it should be, it can't
be found on "search" anywhere on the computer.
"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> When you download and select save, you are prompted as to where to place
> the file. The default location is the user's documents folder. You should
> always make note of where you are downloading to or else how are you going
> to know where to go once its done?.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Lon Carpenter" <lcarpenter@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:LezXg.46844$DU3.33522@tornado.texas.rr.com...
>>I am unable to download anything from the internet. It appears to be
>>downloading, but doesn't register anywhere on my drives. Help!
>

Hi,

"Search" relies heavily on the indexing, and if it's set to only index your
user environment it will not locate anything stored outside of it. I would
suggest you just type the path to the save location into the address bar of
Windows Explorer or into the search line instead.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Lon Carpenter" <lcarpenter@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
news:8zEXg.46953$DU3.7297@tornado.texas.rr.com...
> Rick - Yes, I know to be sure and remember the file I identified for
> saving the file. Unfortunately, everything appears normal during the
> download except when I finish, not only is the file not where it should
> be, it can't be found on "search" anywhere on the computer.
> "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:%23YwvtIm7GHA.2092@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> When you download and select save, you are prompted as to where to place
>> the file. The default location is the user's documents folder. You should
>> always make note of where you are downloading to or else how are you
>> going to know where to go once its done?.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>> "Lon Carpenter" <lcarpenter@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
>> news:LezXg.46844$DU3.33522@tornado.texas.rr.com...
>>>I am unable to download anything from the internet. It appears to be
>>>downloading, but doesn't register anywhere on my drives. Help!
>>
>

I had this problem in Beta 2. This is in my opinion, a serious flaw with
Vista. The way the file system works is very strange to me. Try switching
your Vista drive to an XP machine and doing your search. You will find your
files in a sub folder of your user name local files. But it seems to be
different from the normal local files folder.

You will never find the file searching your disk from Vista. It was possible
for me to find the parent folder after knowing what to look for, but was
denied access from within Vista using any level of credietials available to
me. I COULD access the folder and subfolders using XP. When I originally
downloaded the file it said it would be put into the My Documents folder.

I first noticed something was wrong when trying to attach files using
windows Live Mail Although the file I wanted to attach was right on my
desktop, windows live mail couldn't find it. So when I had downloading
problems I spent a little time poking about. Best as I can tell it's all
some kind of smoke and mirrors virtualization re-direction scheme
("sandboxing", I think it's called).

That gave me a very creeped out feeling, because with Vista, stuff can be on
your hard drive but you would never know it even if you suspect it is there
and activly look for it.. May be true on XP also for all I know, the more I
think I know, the less I know, it would seem.

"Lon Carpenter" <lcarpenter@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
news:LezXg.46844$DU3.33522@tornado.texas.rr.com...
>I am unable to download anything from the internet. It appears to be
>downloading, but doesn't register anywhere on my drives. Help!