Doing my head in!

[Realist]

Well Im not stupid with PC's, concidering Im A+, N+, MCSA and MCSE qualified but this is doing my bloody head in and cant solve it.

When ever I try to download a file the link shows, the screen pops up and I click save but the box disappears off the screen regardless of what Im trying to save.

I dont have any software on this system that could be causing this problem and the only other solution is a format and start again.

System is Windows XP pro.

Any ideas?

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[lincsat]

All I can suggest with my wealth of inexperience is to ditch MSIE and use Firefox

[bonzobob999]

Things disapearing off the screen sounds like a browser hijack to me, does it happen with every file you try to download? have you tried the usual spyware/adware cleanups?.........Ad-Aware, spybot, ewido anti malware, spy sweeper....but to name a few, maybe download Hijackthis and have a look at a scan log?

[-AMO-]

I'm with bob on this one, sounds like some form of malware at work.

[Realist]

Things dont disapper off the desktop but the popup dox that says save or open that goes when I click save or open.

I have installed Firefox and that works ok, so its a IE problem.

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[delambo]

When did it occur? If it was recent I usually just restore to a couple of days before the problem started and see if that cures it. Only works though if youve got system restore activated.

[Realist]

Done a restore and that did not work.

Its going to be a full wipe and restore of XP me thinks

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