Friday’s question: why does every big download choke at 99%?
Tell me this hasn’t happened to you. Your PC churns and burns to download a huge-tastic file and just stops at 99%. Can someone send me the last 2.5 MB of the final Vista release? 
Share your download horror stories on the comments. Please….make me feel better.
Because it downloads to a temporary file and at the 99% mark (apparently) it copies it to the actual download location.
I’ve seen the temporary file moved to a permanent location, but I still don’t have the whole file. However, I got 2 MB of the last 2.5….just half a meg to go!
Also, doesn’t it feed it through virus scan. I’ve had luck on large files (who I knew for sure were safe) by turning off the download virus scan.
That happens to me all time when downloading large files thru bittorrents. Sometimes it takes weeks to get those last few MB. I feel your pain.
Suspend and then resume the download and then it should finish – the MS file transfer manager does this to me all the time and a suspend/resume has always done the trick for me.
I finally got the last 2.5 MB about an hour later after at least a dozen “suspend and resumes” not to mention several reboots. Sheesh!
Yeah, you would think MS would have a decent file manager. I downloaded Vista from the volume licensing site earlier this week and left it overnight only to find it at “interrupted” status the next morning with 300 MB remaining. Luckily it picked up and finished in about 15 minutes so I could leave for work.
It took me 5 hrs to download 0.5 Mb