Sam Did you ever get a satisfactory answer. All the suggestions for this
issue seem to have take me to a setting that is correct. Any ideas would be
greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Rick

"sam_d" wrote:

> 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
> > --
> > 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?