what maybe wrong with this vista?

it's have been long and now i think its a problem.
every time i download a file from net, the download will proceed till completion.
but when i try to run the application, i got this message:
"Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item"

but i have logged as admin.

another surprising thing is that, when i check the properties, i find 0 Bytes as the size of the file.

I'm scratching my head now

any help?

Where are you trying to download it to?.

Nigel Goodwin said:

Where are you trying to download it to?.

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I've tried the Desktop, and the Downloads folder in user home directory.

t.man said:

I've tried the Desktop, and the Downloads folder in user home directory.

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Have you checked the permissions for those folders?, although I would certainly expect them both to accept downloads.

Even as Administrator you can set a file to disallow you access to it, you can still change the access restrictions though, just change the permissions.

But i still don't understand this 0 bytes after, say, 20 minutes wait for download to complete.

That depends on what program are you using to download. In mozilla for example, every time you start a download a file appears on the desired location (i.e. desktop)

Nameofthefile.exe

As you already know, It's a dummy file, 0 kb size, "incomplete" so it cannot be opened

Your REAL download is beign stored on other location, called nameofthefile.exe.part. Maybe it's located next to the other file, but hidden. Once the download is finished, Mozilla renames the .part file to nameofthefile.exe (to make it usable) and deletes the dummy file.

Your process is beign interrupted by something: The connection falls, the server is bad, they deny the file, whatever...

So the .part file is never completed, and the only thing you see is that dumb "nameofthefile.exe" 0 kb size file, every time the download is "supossedly" completed. And why not, this may also trigger the absurd administrator warnings.

Check your connection stability, or download the file from somewhere else and your problem will be gone

t.man.

Come over from the dark side, and get a Linux operating system.

May the Force be with you.