Hi Ed,

>You might want to look into using something like GetRight as a download manager; I've used it for quite a while, and it offers significant advantages over IE's native support. www.getright.com (I'm using version 4.1.1; the only time I disable it is when I go to the WIndows Update site.)

I have used GetRight with IE4, however, I am currently using NetZip. I disabled it to see if it was causing the problem, but same result. Thanks for the suggestion. Any other ideas are definately welcome. For now, I just D/L from another machine. A bit of a pain, but less than a reinstall at this point.

The confusing thing to me is that not all D/Ls fail. Windows Update works fine, UT D/L works fine. Just some of the MS links that connect to conxion (?) fail on my machine. I thought maybe conxion was having trouble, but was successful on another machine just a few minutes later and when I retried on mine, hang again. I just don't get it.