I have tried downloading and installing quite a few different programs, Imesh, limewire, and Kazaa to no avail. Each time I do this I'm able to download the installation software but the installation program never starts up to download and eventually freezes. No messsages come up, no warnings no errors, nothing. I've had Limewire and Kazaa before, they were both unistalled successfully. This first happened when trying to download Imesh about 2 weeks ago. I was able to download the program but the registration window failed to come up fully and eventually froze. I successfully unistalled that program as well. I hadn't messed with a P2P program since Imesh, until tonight. I first tried installing Kazaa again, didn't work, so I thought it might of been the program, so I tried Imesh and Limewire all had similar results. My antivirus is up to date. I tried different variation with firewalls n such to no avail. PLEASE SOMEONE help me out with this one. I've tried as much as I know how to try. My computer is running just fine. All other programs do fine, nothing is sluggish. I'm able to browse the internet just fine. Some help WOULD be awesome. Thanks.

DrakeYou may have to unzip the files under winzip. Look for the file in the C: drive, and then try to bring up the program that way. If that doesn't work, re-download it."... I'm able to download the installation software but the installation program never starts up to download ...."

Could you re-write that sentence so that it makes sense? Are you saying that the download was successful but you can't get the program to install, once you've downloaded it? Does the installation procedure appear to start but then stop before completion?

If so, I think you need to try DISABLING your anti-virus software before attempting the installation. You might also need to disable your firewall, but I suggest you disconnect from the Internet before you do that. This is what I do for example:

I go to www.kazaa.com. Click the "Download" button. I window pops up asking me if I want to "run" or "save" this file. In the window it says

Name: Kazaa_setup.exe
Type: Application, 596 KB
From: download.kazaa.com

From this point I can either "save" or "run" it from the website itself. I click save (I've also clicked "run" and gotten the same results) which saves "kazaa_setup" to My Documents. Now that I have it saved I can click on "kazaa_setup" to start the download of "kazaa_setup". Once thats complete, it only takes a few moments, another window pops up that says this

Download Complete

Saved:
Kazaa setup.exe from download.kazaa.com
Downloaded: 160KB in 2 sec
Download to: C:\Documents and...\kazaa_setup.exe
Transfer rate: 80.0 KB/Sec

then gives me the option to click "run", "open FOLDER" or "close"

To download Kazaa to my computer I need to click on "run". This is where it screws up. .....

A window comes up that is part of the Kazaa program it says, "Please Wait....searching for the installer content"

I let that window sit there for a half hour and nothing happens. It eventually freezes up. I've had Kazaa before, gave me no troubles and was successfully uninstalled. I have the same exact problems when trying to download Imesh, and Limewire. I've also been trying to REGISTER my trial version of Microsoft Office 2003 and the program won't fully communicate with whatever server it is its trying to register itself.

I have tried tinkering with my antivirus software, my firewall, everything I can think of.
Its not a Zip file. Any help is very much appreciated. Thank you

Drake