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Windows XP can't download EXE files

Asked by riclm in Windows XP Operating System

Tags: download

I use Windows XP Pro, version 5.1 build 2600 Service Pack 1.

I use XP since I bought my PC on September 2002, and since last month, May 2003, it started behaving very weird.
I just doesn't download EXE files at all and neither Windows Update downloads anything anymore.
The download window opens and just hangs there. Sometimes it downloads like 22KB of a file and then it stops.

I've been having to ask to my ICQ friends 'can you download such thing, zip and send it to me?', so it works.

And it's not only that. I'm having serious trouble connecting my ICQ. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't at all. But my other ICQ account in Trillian connects. So does my MSN in Trillian.

And another problem is that sometimes the web is really slow, and Yahoo doesn't work properly.

I've typed "xp can't download exe" in Google Groups and I read lots of articles. Nobody had a solution.
I've noticed that all of them used cable modem or were related to network.
Many of them said the problem was only with XP, that other machines downloaded the same files normally.
One guy had the same version of Windows XP as me: build 2600
And many people said "can't download with IE 6", which I guess they didn't have other browsers.
But I had Opera and Netscape, last versions, and they couldn't download EXE files either.
Also on ICQ and MSN transfers: I can't receive EXE files! It just doesn't transfer.

I have tried everything:
- Scanned with Norton: found nothing. Then I deleted Norton
- Scanned with Nod32: it deleted 2 macro files, which I dont think they were really viruses
- Reinstalled XP with repair
- Restored System
- Reinstalled XP as a fresh install
- Tried to partition my HD: got a problem, lost everything, reformatted
- Reinstalled XP: THE PROBLEM PERSISTS!

I was really surprised to the that the problem persists after a HD formatting, with nothing in it but XP.
And I read in Google News that a guy had the same problem. He formatted and reinstalled XP and the problem persisted.
And it's not the firewall, it's off.

The funny thing is that this problem surged "from the nothing", it just started happening.
I have no idea of what to do anymore.

XP is just useless if I can't download EXE files.

What can I do!?
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