What happened to my downloads?

[nickc]

hope this is in the right place?

I download a lot of pics off the internet and all the sudden nothing downloads I am running XP, with firefox, use a GIG, netgear network card, and have got a Meg download, but all the sudden nothing is downloading. Could someone tell me how to fix this?

 

[kimsland]

From using the Internet for a while, downloading and browsing, you can get a lot of temporary files, that accumulate and can slow or even stop your system.
Please download (ironically) and run CCleaner, then try again.

 

[nickc]

ok, kimsland, I will try that, but I already have it downloaded, the last time I ran that due to my own stupidity I screwed up the OS, so I have never ran it again.

Thanks

 

[kimsland]

Well I hope it's reasonably current version
But either way, it'll remove all the built up junk.

You may want to defrag after that too. Probably all red by now.

 

[Crosscourt]

Did you restart your system?

Did it work ok afterwards?

Was there anything else being downloaded in the background while you were doing this?