Vista - downloaded files disappear...actually never appear

Dave-UK, the image just shows what I describe. So far as I know, there are a bunch of people who have this unusual problem but nobody has a solution. Thanks for your help so far. I appreciate it.

-Leif

Just thought I'd test some sort of process influence- Booted into SAFE MODE (w/Networking). Guess what, SAME PROBLEM, no change in both IE7 and Firefox!!!!

Can anyone offer any help on this problem? I would rather have the community assist than have to go through the Microsoft Assistance scenario.

-Leif

Update. I watched a download destianation location very closely and noticed that the file is actually written to the drive and then subsequently deleted immediately. I performed this using a very slow USB drive and watched the activity light and saw the file name appear and then dissappear.

Does this help anyone diagnose this problem?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Format & Reinstall should fix it.... Since it was a new computer w/built in recovery partition, the factory state reinstall should solve the problem faster! Now if it happens again.....

You don't have to - like most BB's vistax4 allows guests - I'd rather go
there that some file download site

have you reinstalled, if so could you let us know what happened

reading through your posts it seems to be a file system issue rather than an
'net issue, the files do download but they disappear as soon as they've
finished, yet you can copy files - that's how you got Firefox onto the
system.

Have you looked through the processes & services that are running on your
system, and are they all kosher

I would not be hard to write something that monitored downloads and deleted
files as soon as they've finished, even I could do that. The fact the
problems persists under Safe mode makes me feel this is a malware problem,
packaged as a driver (not sure I could do that)

BTW what did you use to scribble on those images at vistax64 - I use .Bug
Shooting which allows me to type stuff and draw shapes, but hand written has
a lot more impact.

Well I'd rather go to any file download site than that forum.

TUT, my factory state reinstall fixed the problem. I reinstalled AVG8 and still no problems. I suspect it's an odd combination of AVG, UAC and perhaps windows firewall. Since I never really nailed it down I won't really know.
As far as the scribble device- it's a Lenovo X61 Tablet. It's my first tablet and so far I like the new things I can do with handwriting. Computers help organize people to some extent but everyones "writing" looks pretty much the same. The tablet allows me to mix it up a bit.

Thanks for your help.

-Leif

Sounds like some people are having permissions problems. Had the same problem my first time around vista. Can't remember how I stumbled upon it this solution, but if you right-click in the folder your downloading, go into the properties, then to the securities tab and click the edit you should be given the option to give permission to the various account on your computer. All you have to do is give yourself full control of the folder and re-download the file and voilà! no more invisible downloaded files. That usually works for me anyway, or I just download to the downloads folder.

The problem is AVG.
Note that AVG is NOT compatible with VISTA.
AVG is programmed for WINDOWS XP.

Meaning, some scripts in AVG may interrupt VISTA making downloads unable to work smoothly.

I'd advise you to go with another ANTIVIRUS program, such as Norton which is compatible with VISTA, but it DOES cost money.