Hi everyone I hope you can help me with this really frustrating problem. About 6months ago I bought a new P.C with Vista Home Premium 32-bit preinstalled. It has worked fine but in the last few days I have finally gained access to the internet only to discover that I can't seem to install or download correctly. For example I downloaded both the latest firefox and safari setup files but when I try to run them I get the following message instantly: "Firefox has stopped working A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is a available." Now I have trawled google and other forums for a long time but can't seem to find a solution to the problem. I have set dep to allow these programs to run, and also disabled dep entirely but neither of these seems to work even though I have recieved dep realted error messages. I have also tried running the programs as an administrator, and disabled windows defender, avg anti-virus and windows firewall. None of these solutions seem to work and there doesnt seem to be any other ideas anywhere else on the internet. I also seem to have a problem downloading from IE7, when I click a download link a lot of the time either nothing happens or I see a window pop up and there disapear straight away, this is also very frustrating and my gut instinct is that it may be an issue with some security settings? My P.C has the following spec: Intel Pentium E2160 Dual Core Processor @ 3.0GHz Asus P5K Motherboard nVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB Graphics Card 2GB PC2-6400 DDR2 Memory I will forever greatful if you can give me some advice, thanks a lot!

Hi You can following steps: Reset Internet Explorer (IE) & register files==========1. Click Start, please type "inetcpl.cpl" (without quotation marks) in the Start Search bar and press Enter to open the Internet options window.2. Switch to the Advanced tab.3. Click the Reset Internet Explorer Settings button.4. Click Reset to confirm the operation.5. Click Close when the resetting process finished.6. Uncheck Enable third-party browser extensions option in the Settings box.7. Click Apply, click OK. Also, since this problem occurs in the few days, you can try restore system toa previous status. Hope this helps.

Thank you that seems to have helped. I didn't need to do a system restore.I had previously found that I could install firefox when downloaded from another computer and then transferred to this pc via memory stick. I could then download and install using firefox without any problems, but after trying this I also seem to be able to use internet explorer as well. Thank you very much!