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Hi all, to cut a long story short,my daughter has a laptop with vista loaded. Using add/remove she uninstalled AVG7.5. When she tries to download version 8 free, the download freezes at varying intervals.She has tried various sites and sometimes gets to 98% before download freezes. Not being familiar with Vista can anybody give me any pointers on what might be causing this ? Thanks in advance....

Hiya. It seems there are quite a few people with this problem, using Vista, but I havent seen a permanent fix for it yet. Does this happen with all downoloads or only this one ? Is her connection flakey or very slow. The problem with using Windows to download files is, if the connection times out or is lost, the download is lost aswell. I would suggest her using a ...

I don't think it's only Vista having problems. I'm using XP and for a few days now the AVG server seems to be flaky, probably due to overload. has she tried updating early in the morning, or going to the AVG main site to grab the update ?

I believe its the actual AVG 8 program JT's daughter wants, not the update. I tried it last night from Grisofts website referral link and it came down at 300KBps. http://www.download.com/AVG-Anti-Vir...=dl&tag=but ton

Thanks Guys, Yes it is the full programme she is trying to download and because she doesn't have a virus programme she hasn't tried to download anything recently ( laptop is mainly used for email, skype,and asking daddy for info and money LOL) JR, I will forward your orbit link to her and see how she gets on. Much obliged, don't think she will do anything tonight as she will be glued to ...

Sorry never answered your questions, I was on phone to her last as we attempted to download AVG8. We are both on Virgin media 2 Mb. From the same website at around 250KBps I downloaded AVG no problem but she froze, same speed at around 85%. Further info: her tel line ( also Virgin cable ) seems to have a problem as she can hear her VM next door neighbour dial and talk while on the phone to me....

...seems to have a problem as she can hear her VM next door neighbour dial and talk while on the phone to me. I can hear neigbours phone dialing as well... That sounds like water (or at least moisture) in the green cabinet situated somewhere close by, causing capacitance between the connections, so speech and data signals "bleed" from one connection point to another.

YES! Your Orbit downloader did the trick, JR - she done system scan and everything now ok. Told her to download superantispyware and hopefully laptop should be running good. I have been asked to pass on her thanks to everyone for their help.With all the rain thats fell, your'e probably right, Mender. JT

Hiya. At least she seems secure for the moment, thats all that matters, bar the phoneline problem. I'm sure what Mender said will be the problem, so let us know the outcome of the engineers visit. Tell her thanks and she is quite welcome anytime.

Yep! Muscles Mender was right water in ye old recepticle, in our area cable connections seem to be under pavement rather in upright boxes sooooooo I suppose Virgin (Telewest originally) need to look at sealing their connections a bit better - anyway all sorted - thanks for everyone's input. JT