Cant download files off any browser

Some people are not so lucky, they can't finish any download in Chrome. What's worse, they fail to download files without receiving a warning or error message indicating where the process went wrong. In this case, it's time to take some further measures. After reading numerous stories telling how people fix the downloading problems in Chrome, we summed up four effective solutions which I hope to be a permanent cure.

These are what you can try: clear all history and cache, run the Chrome cleanup tool, and reset settings to Chrome's original defaults. If you want to keep your Chrome history and cookies, you can backup or export Chrome history and cookies in advance. A Chrome cleanup tool can find and remove harmful software on your computer. Running this tool may solve the "Chrome won't download files" issue caused by malware. Step 4. Under "Reset and clean up", click "Restore settings to their original defaults" and then click "Reset Settings" to confirm.

Attention, resetting Chrome will reset the browser startup page, new tab page, pinned tabs, and more. It will also disable all extensions and clear temporary data like cookies. However, other files like your bookmarks, history, and saved passwords will not be saved still. If you want to retrieve cookies but have no backup available, learn how to recover cache files in Google Chrome here.

To uninstall Google Chrome completely, first, you need to uninstall Google Chrome under Settings, then go to the registry to delete all Google folders. Now you have successfully and completely uninstalled Google Chrome from your computer. If not, continue performing the following operations. Step 5: Click the Move folder button under Current location and select a folder in drive C:. After selecting a folder, click the OK button to save the change. Step 2: Switch to the Security tab, click the Internet icon, and click the Custom level… button.

Step 3: Scroll to Downloads and make sure all options are enabled. Step 4: If you make certain changes, save the changes, and then restart your computer. Here take Google Chrome for example. When data and cache have been removed from Google Chrome, check whether you can download your files now. If you still fail to download anything, please reinstall Google Chrome. Detailed guides for how to clear cache for one specific site in Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Opera browser, etc.

Networking faults can be a symptom of virus infection. How to perform a virus scan? You can try Windows Defender. Windows Defender is a Windows built-in antimalware product that is preinstalled on your computer. Follow the steps below to run this product for virus scan. Step 5: Click the Advanced link, choose Full scan , and click the Scan now button. If your computer is infected with viruses, Windows Defender will remove it and you will be able to download files from the Internet again.

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Click here to Register a free account now! Can't download any files with any browser Started by marcodaz , Oct 01 PM. This topic is locked. Posted 01 October - PM Hello all, Well I finally came to the point of registering on this forum and asking my question. It's not really the way I usually fix problems because I know how to search and I know quite some stuff about computers but this one gets way above my head I guess.

This was getting quite frustrating as you can imagine. The suggestions were things like fiddling around with register keys and running virus checks and all kinds of stuff. Finally sfc did the trick why didn't I think of that before. So now the problem with the folders opening in different windows is solved! Well here's the next one: Once the problem with the folders opening in different windows was solved, Internet Explorer stopped working.

Whenever I search Internet Explorer in program files or whenever I try to launch it via run No messages, no errors nothing so I tried to fix that problem too using Windows 7 manager and all kinds of other things and voila it worked! Really don't know why but it worked! Not much time for partying because as soon as I opened "My Computer" I discovered that it opened in a separate window..

All over again. But these two are not really the main problem would be happy as a monkey in a bananafield if it did get fixed though.

It is merely the problem with windows opening in separate windows where I think it all started and I highly suspect these two problems are linked. Well please read on.