after windows update cant download torrent Unable to download anything on Windows 10. Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community. We would like to know the following information to assist you better. Which browser are you trying to use to download? What is the make and model of the system?" Please refer the below methods to resolve the issue: Method 1: I would suggest you to disable (preferably uninstall) the security software (if any) installed in the system and check if you are able to download anything. Disclaimer: can help protect your computer against viruses and other security threats. In most cases, you shouldn't disable your antivirus software. If you have to temporarily disable it to install other software, you should re-enable it as soon as you're done. If you're connected to the Internet or a network while your antivirus software is disabled, your computer is vulnerable to attacks. Method 2: Try using or and check it helps. If you are using Microsoft Edge , I would suggest you to click on the link below and delete all the browsing history and cookies from edge. Try the download again and see if it helps: Refer the following sections: Can I clear the browsing history information or other information that Microsoft Edge saves on my device? How can I clear and manage cookies in Microsoft Edge? Reference: Delete and manage cookies for internet explorer. Hope this information is helpful. Do let us know if you need any further assistance, we'll be glad to assist you. Report abuse. 13 people found this reply helpful. Was this reply helpful? Sorry this didn't help. Great! Thanks for your feedback. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback. Report abuse. 26 people found this reply helpful. Was this reply helpful? Sorry this didn't help. Great! Thanks for your feedback. 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Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach. Disclaimer: The Reset Internet Explorer /Edge Settings feature might reset security settings or privacy settings that you added to the list of Trusted Sites. The Reset Internet Explorer Settings feature might also reset parental control settings. We recommend that you note these sites before you use the Reset Internet Explorer Settings feature. Method 2: Try following these steps to enable download in Internet explorer: 1. Under Internet explorer select Tools and then Internet options. 2. Under Security select Internet and click Custom Level. 3. Under Downloads look for File Download and select Enable and click OK. Please refer the link below to resolve the issue. Cannot Download with Internet Explorer ://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/299328. Method 3: Perform Clean Boot by referring the below link to check the download status. Note : After clean boot troubleshooting step, follow the section "How to reset the computer to start as usual after troubleshooting with clean boot" in the provided link to return your computer to Normal startup mode. Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help. Unable to download, error: Virus Scan Failed. All downloads I try for the last several days are being blocked and deleted with a 'virus scan failed' message. I reinstalled McAfee and this has not helped. It happens with IE and Chrome. Any suggestions? ***Modified Title from: All Downloads Blocked “Virus Scan Failed”*** Subscribe Subscribe to RSS feed. Report abuse. Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums. We can imagine how difficult it could be. If you are using third party antivirus programs like McAfee, the built-in antivirus program Windows Defender and Windows Firewall will automatically disabled. We recommend you to follow the methods mentioned below to Uninstall McAfee and turn on Windows Defender and then try downloading. Methods 1: Uninstall McAfee using McAfee removal tools . Please try uninstalling the McAfee program and then proceed with Method 2. Disclaimer: If you have Windows 10, you’ll get the latest antivirus protection with Windows Defender. When you start up Windows 10 for the first time, Windows Defender is on and actively helping to protect your PC by scanning for malware (malicious software), viruses, and security threats. Windows Defender uses real-time protection to scan everything you download or run on your PC. Windows update downloads updates for Windows Defender automatically to help keep your PC safe and protect it from threats. Then try downloading Microsoft Safety Scanner and try running the scanner. Disclaimer: Microsoft Safety Scanner is a scan tool designed to find and remove malware from Windows computers. Download it, run a scan to find malware and try to reverse changes made by identified threats. Safety Scanner only scans when manually triggered and is available for use 10 days after being downloaded. We recommend that you always download the latest version of this tool before each scan. Note: This tool does not replace your antimalware products. For real-time protection with automatic updates, use Windows Defender Antivirus on Windows 10 and Windows 8 or Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows 7. These antimalware products malware removal capabilities. If you are having difficulties removing malware with these products, you can refer to our help on removing difficult threats. Method 2: Information about the attachment Manager and Workaround . Please refer Information about the attachment Manager in and try performing the steps throughout the article and then try downloading the file. Registry Disclaimer: The registry is a database in Windows that contains important information about system hardware, installed programs and settings, and profiles of each of the user accounts on the computer. Windows often reads and updates the information in the registry. Normally, software programs make registry changes automatically. You should not make unnecessary changes to the registry. Changing registry files incorrectly can cause Windows to stop working or make Windows report the wrong information. Important: This section, method, or task contains steps that tell how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore if a problem occurs. Can't download anything since upgrading to Windows 10. Since upgrading to Windows 10 last week, I cannot download anything using Internet Explorer 11 or Microsoft Edge. No software updates, music, PDF files or any type of downloads. Shortly after the upgrade to Windows 10 I received an error message "Window Shell not responding". But I have not had that message for a few days. I currently have a Dell Inspirion 15 Series 5000 that is only 2 months old. I'm running Norton for virus protection. Subscribe Subscribe to RSS feed. Report abuse. Replies (4) Welcome to Microsoft Community. Your interest in Windows 10 is much appreciated. Method 1: I would suggest you to refer the link and check. Manage add-ons in Internet Explorer: Method 2: If issue persists try resetting Internet Explorer's settings and check. Follow the steps: a. Press Windows logo key + R . b. Type inetcpl.cpl in Run Window and press enter. c. Click the Advanced tab. d. Click Reset and click apply and ok . Note: The Reset Internet Explorer Settings feature might reset security settings or privacy settings that you added to the list of Trusted Sites. The Reset Internet Explorer Settings feature might also reset parental control settings. We recommend that you note these sites before you use the Reset Internet Explorer Settings feature. Also refer the below article and check if that helps: Keep us posted if you face any issues on windows in future. We will be glad to help you. 9 Ways to Download Torrents if You Can’t Install and Run a Torrent Client. peer to peer file sharing is still going strong after all these years. This is even after attempts by several countries to ban tracker sites like The Pirate Bay and others at the ISP level. Even though torrents are mostly associated with downloading pirated and copyright infringing files, there are still many legitimate uses that rely on the same peer to peer (P2P) distribution method. Lots of free software is offered for download over torrent P2P, such as Linux ISOs. In the past, game developers have also used it to distribute game patches and updates. You can even download drivers for utilities like Snappy Driver Installer using P2P. Sadly a number of organizations can block the use of torrent software as it is a huge drain on the network because it connects to many other computers at the same time. Even your ISP could throttle torrents and slow them to a crawl of only a few KB/s for the same reason. To get around the restriction on using dedicated torrent clients or ISP imposed speed throttling, there are a few things you can try to still be able to use torrents. Here we have 9 options for you to look at. Download Torrents With a Torrent Client . The Java Bitlet tool used to be a great way to download torrents within your browser but sadly it’s no longer available after Java was phased out in all major browsers. An alternative is using a browser extension for Chrome or . There are very few of these around despite the hundreds of thousands of extensions available. 1. JSTorrent Lite For Chrome. The Lite version of JSTorrent is cut down from the paid Chrome app so it’s more feature limited than it would otherwise be. The biggest restriction is a limitation to 20 downloads before the app stops you downloading. An easy way around this is simply uninstalling and reinstalling JSTorrent to reset the counter. JSTorrent Lite accepts both magnet and local/remote .torrent files. There’s also the option to stream video files while downloading. Select the video file, click the Files tab and press Stream to open the player window. Adjusting the number of peers or active torrents can be controlled via the Settings window but setting speed limits is not available in this free version. 2. Bitford For Chrome. If your torrenting needs are quite basic but you want upload and download speed controls which JSTorrent Lite doesn’t offer, Bitford is worth a try. Bitford doesn’t accept magnet links, only local .torrent files, so it’s more tricky after visiting sites like The Pirate Bay. However, magnet links can easily be converted to torrent files with a service like Magnet2Torrent. Control the upload and download speed via the two boxes at the bottom. Press the Save button to save individual files to your drive or Remove to cancel the download. 3. Torrent Client Extension for Firefox Based Browsers. Firefox has a torrent client extension called Torrent Tornado but since the extensions API changed in Firefox 57, that extension and many others don’t work anymore. An older version of Firefox would obviously be outdated in terms of security updates, so isn’t recommended. If you prefer using Firefox, a partial solution is to run something similar that still uses the old extensions system. There are a few forked versions of Firefox around that still retain the old extension API. This means you can use Torrent Tornado and most other legacy extensions that no longer work. We have tested Torrent Tornado with , and Seamonkey and they all seem to work fine. Torrent Tornado has enough functions for most average users and it accepts .torrent files, magnet links, HTTP/FTP URLs or torrent hashes. Press the Add new torrent button to start and after adding the source for the torrent, it will show the details for the download and then offer the choice of which files to download from within the torrent. The small Settings button controls options such as save folder, file associations, memory cache, maximum peers and download speeds. Note: Torrent Tornado will install directly from the add-on page if you are using Waterfox. If you use Pale Moon or Seamonkey, download the extension file first and then drop it onto the browser extensions window. Download Torrents With an Online Torrent Client. This method has a few advantages. It bypasses P2P traffic shaping from an ISP and also keeps you safe from anti-P2P organizations monitoring copyright infringing torrents. You are not torrenting, the service is. You merely download the finished file just like any other file. A drawback is most free services are quite limited unless you pay for a subscription. 4. Seedr. We are looking at Seedr because it’s one of the more generous free services. Seedr doesn’t restrict the download speed of completed files from its servers. The file limit is 2GB which is both the overall storage capacity and the maximum size of a single torrent download. This can be increased to 6GB by accomplishing tasks such as inviting friends, tweeting a review or pinning a Seedr image on your Pinterest. Seedr accepts local torrent files, magnet links or a URL of a remote torrent file. You can only transfer one torrent at a time to the Seedr servers but can download multiple completed torrents at once. We found the download speed satisfactory and our files downloaded at a good rate. There’s also a Seedr Chrome extension for directly adding links. Another service currently with a 2GB file limit and unlimited bandwidth is Transfercloud. There are other services available like Filestream, Bitport, and ZBigZ but they have low file size limits or slow download speeds. They work but we believe they are too limited to be of any great use. Use a Browser With Built in Torrent Client. used to have an integrated torrent client but it removed this ability when switching to the browsing engine in 2012. You can still download Opera 12.18 and use the torrent client, but it’s better to use a more up to date solution. Another browser with a torrent client is Citrio but it’s very outdated. 5. Browser. Something more recent that includes a built in torrent client is Torch Browser. Torch also includes a download accelerator, social sharing button, games portal, music portal, media player, and a media grabber that downloads on page audio and video. After install simply press the slider then the green button in the Torch toolbar to turn on torrenting and open the torrent client window. It’s possible to just drop a torrent file onto the window or you can open the Add Torrent dialog to search for a file or paste a magnet link into the box. Choose the save to location and which files inside the torrent to download, then press OK to start. The torrent Settings window allows for adjustment of a number of options commonly found in torrent clients. These include randomize or change the listening port, use DHT/PEX/LPD, adjust the number of connections and active torrents, speed limits, seeding limits and video streaming playback options. You’ll want to right click and remove the Torch Offers advertising extension. Using a File Download Manager. While you might not be able to install or run a dedicated torrent client, it may be possible to run a standard file download manager. There are many around that handle normal file downloads but a few free managers are also able to download torrents. Flashget and Free Download manager are two that can handle torrents. 6. Free Download Manager. We’ll look at Free Download Manager (FDM) because it’s still actively supported. During install, FDM will offer to associate itself with .torrent files and magnet links. It’s best to leave the setting as is to make things easier. When the program launches drop a .torrent file onto the window, press the menu button top right to manually search for a torrent file or press the paste button to paste in a remote torrent or magnet URL. To control speeds, Free Download Manager has Low, Medium or High speed limit modes and a Snail Mode which will concede bandwidth to other traffic. Traffic limit speeds, connections and a few torrent specific options like DHT, used ports and port forwarding can be controlled via the Settings window. Right click on the torrent download to set its priority, whether to seed, setup scheduling or to force a recheck/reannounce. Multi Host Torrent Converter. It’s worth noting first that a multi host file download service is not free and costs from around €4 Euros for a month depending on who you go with. These services are mainly for heavy downloaders using cyberlocker sites like Rapidgator or Uploaded. Some also include other download services like Usenet or BitTorrent. If you want to get large torrents that free services like Seedr can’t handle, this is a cheap paid option. 7. AllDebrid. The service we have used for several years is AllDebrid although there are similar services like RealDebrid that can also handle torrents. Alternatively, you can go for a bandwidth based service such as Premium.to. AllDebrid works similar to the free online clients but files are uploaded to another cyberlocker site called UptoBox. Then you paste the UptoBox links into the AllDebrid downloader to download as normal. Visit the Torrent Converter page and either paste a Magnet link or click the Upload box to add a .torrent from your computer. Then do something else while waiting for the torrent to finish. When the process is complete, click on Show Links and then Download All to send the links directly to the Downloader box. The limits are 250GB torrent size, 30 simultaneous downloads and a 72 hour time limit for the torrent to finish. Download Torrents With WebTorrent. WebTorrent is potentially useful because it can be used in most major browsers. It’s slightly different from traditional torrents because WebTorrent uses WebRTC as the transfer protocol instead of TCP/uTP. A number of services are using this method with many of them being video streaming sites, one of the most notable is the video hosting site BitChute. A drawback with WebTorrent is you can only connect to other WebRTC enabled torrent clients. This rules out connecting to seeds or peers from popular clients like uTorrent or qBitTorrent. The list of supported clients is small with the WebTorrent desktop client and Vuze being the two most well known. Therefore downloads are more likely to be unavailable or slower than a standard torrent due to fewer available connections. 8. Instant.io. This website is very easy to use and it allows you to share a torrent with others or download a torrent from your favorite repository. Simply paste a magnet link or info hash for the torrent into the lower box and press Download or browse for a local torrent file with the Choose Files button. If the file being downloaded is video or audio it can be streamed while downloading and played directly from the page using a player that appears. Any accompanying files like images, subtitles or text can also be viewed and downloaded separately. If the torrent contains several separate files there will be a download all as zip link to download the files as a single archive. Note that Instant.io doesn’t always work, sometimes it will just sit there showing zero peers or do nothing at all, even after several minutes. The next option seems to be more reliable. 9. Browser. The Chromium based Brave browser includes an integrated WebTorrent extension that works pretty well. Brave also has some other interesting features like Brave Rewards and the Brave Shields privacy and ad blocker panel. All you have to do is paste a magnet link into the address bar or attempt to download a .torrent file and the browser will intercept it as a WebTorrent. The only real drawback here is there is no option to download a multi-file torrent in one package and you will have to click to download each file individually. WebTorrent can be turned on/off from the settings window. Click on a video file to open another tab with a video player so you can stream while downloading. why can't windows 7 install updates? When the download completes, close all open programs and browsers. Now run MicrosoftFixit50202.msi and choose it's Default mode. When it's finished running see if the system can search for, detect, download, and install updates. If no joy, then suggest that you configure the system to Clean boot . After restarting to the Clean boot state, run the Fixit once more and choose it's Aggressive mode. When it's finished running see if the system can update while still in the Clean boot state, including restarting the system to see if the "hang" still occurs. * Suggest you leave one update to do later when the system is running in normal Windows mode. * NOTE : In the Clean boot state all 3rd party firewalls will be Disabled . Ensure that the native Windows 7 firewall is now On. If the "hang" is not occurring when the system has been updated in the Clean boot state after running the Fixit, then undo the Clean boot steps and restart to normal Windows mode. Now see if the one remaining update installs properly. If the hanging issue is still occurring in the Clean boot state, then please copy and paste the last 50 or so lines of the WindowsUpdate.log into your reply - How to read the Windowsupdate.log file. If the issue only occurs in normal Windows mode, then 3rd party software is the most likely cause.