It sounds weired but you need to have the most upto date version of windows messenger, try it then... Let me know how it goes!
Pole: The browser wars Iv used IE for year now, but just switched to firefox yesterday.. lets see how it goes!
You could try searching for the file on the net on another computer, saving it to floppy then whilst computer is staring up, F8 into set up and...
Same thing happend to me a while ago, turned out, one of the RAM sticks had come loose. Turned PC off took ram out and in again securly, started...
I had the same problem with my Wireless network on my laptop, Turned out, it was because i had not entered the network key right on my wireless...
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