Thanks but that explanation only applies for up to IE4 and details the
opening of web pages and not downloading documents etc.

I think it almost definatley IE7 as I've now managed to get a copy of
firefox on the machine through the our other laptop and this downloads
everthing IE7 won't.

"Gistcheckin" wrote:

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177486
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> Gistcheckin
>
>
> "sam_d" wrote:
>
> > I've just bought a new laptop that came pre installed with Vista. From the
> > very start if I try to download anything, from a small word doc off of
> > hotmail to a large file I get the following message,
> >
> > Internet Explorer cannot download ''file name'' from '' website name''
> >
> > The connection with the server was reset
> >
> > I've got no idea what the problem is, but I thought it may be the wireless
> > router but the other laptop in our house that also has Vista doesn't have the
> > problem and neither does our desktop that runs XP. Please help?