I'm running IE 5.5 and Windows ME. About a week ago, I started being unable to download any kind of file from any site. I always get an error message, whether I left-click or right-click and try to save: "Internet Explorer cannot download xxxfile from xxxsite. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later." As I said, I've tried this on all kinds of files from various sites. I can browse just fine.

I haven't installed any new programs, and NAV hasn't detected any viruses. I did System Restore to a point before the problem appeared, and that hasn't helped.

At the same time (and perhaps related?) when I receive an e-mail attachment, I can open it fine, but the file also appears temporarily on my desktop. It disappears when I close out the attachment. This never happened before last week.

Any ideas on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated!

--Booklady