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I can't download anything. That includes all games, parts of my own profile on other sites, anything marked "download" that I thought I owned in the first place. This has been going on for a week. It's costing me my sanity and my money (not that I had much of either to start with).

I'm using Vista, but it came with the computer and presumably they fit either other? Because I haven't had a problem before.

It must be something moronic that I've done. Or is it connected to all the upheavals I read about, huge sites down for corrections etc.

Anyway - to tell you what it's doing - let's start with Monopoly. It saves my sanity, really, if it would work. I click Play, a little screen pops up showing a bar, and then it just fades and disappears. No more action than that. No message.

I tried uninstall and reinstall from a disk. same thing.

EDIT: I just uninstalled IE8 - that didn't help either, the problem's the same.

I shouldn't sit here obsessing, getting migraine flashes, wanting to smash things. But could you help me get back into my nice safe sane Monopoly game?

The same thing is happening at Guru, where I try to earn pin money (hah!).

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Ok, you caint download? Or play? Different ideas. If you caint download, I would assume it's either your ISP not keeping a connection, or the site's servers are down or slow. Weird if you caint download anything though.

If you caint play, thats your computers fault. Try booting the computer into safemode. Press F8 right as you see the brand name splash screen, it's right there after you hit the power button. A bunch of options will pop up. If the problem is playing something you've already downloaded, go to just safe mode. You'll use the arrow keys. If it's with downloading something, try safe mode with networking. Now, safe mode with networking strips your computer of it's antivirus protections and other things, so if you don't trust a site, don't go to it from there.

Also, check the installed programmes list from the control panel. A few of those scam antivirus programmes out there on the market will cause your computer to not be able to fix itself, which would include downloading new content and loading programmes. Stuff like AV360 and Antivirus 2009 fit this bill.

If you have more questions, PM me.