Downloads Being Blocked

Hi Dear,

My name is R. Cord and I will try to help with first tips:

you already provide a lot of steps and it cant solved.

What I can suggest?

Check your third-party antivirus software:

If you have a third-party antivirus program installed, make sure that it is not blocking downloads. You can try temporarily disabling the antivirus software and see if you can download files after that.

Run the Windows Update troubleshooter:

The Windows Update troubleshooter can help identify and fix issues related to Windows updates. To run the troubleshooter, go to Settings > Update & Security > Troubleshoot, and select "Windows Update" under "Get up and running."

Clear your DNS cache:

Sometimes, your DNS cache can become corrupted and prevent you from accessing certain websites or downloading files. To clear your DNS cache, open the Command Prompt as an administrator and type the following command: "ipconfig /flushdns" (without quotes).

Reset your browser settings:

If the issue is specific to your browser, you can try resetting your browser settings to default. In Chrome, go to Settings > Reset and clean up > Restore settings to their original defaults.

Check your download location:

Make sure that your download location is set to a valid folder or directory. In Chrome, go to Settings > Downloads > Location, and make sure that you have selected a valid download location.

Check your user account settings:

Make sure that your user account has the necessary permissions to download files. Go to Settings > Accounts > Family & other users, and check the account permissions for your user account.

Hopefully, one of these steps will help resolve the issue with downloads being blocked on your computer.

I hope I could have helped you!

Regards

R. Cord

Thanks for this but, as I said in my post, I've tried most of these things already. I did try flushing DNS but this has made no difference.

Hi Ray, I am sorry to hear the first steps not helps.

Could you provide more information?

Are you using any third party antivirus?

Any application of VPN software?

Check this Topic and provide the steps:

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-11-block...

Regarding it not an official Microsoft Topic

Other tip:

Windows 11 has a problem with SmartScreen blocking downloads. Try the solution here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qpMJojU0wg

I hope it help!

Reach for further assistance!

With my Best regards,

R. Cord

Thanks again for your help. 

As I said in my original post, I have tried downloading without any antivirus software loaded and I have tried in Safe Mode.  There is no VPN running.

With the first link you showed it kindly offers a download to fix the problem.  Of course, if I could download that application I wouldn’t have the problem in the first place.  All of the other suggestions in that link I have already tried.

I did try the suggestions in the video to make changes to the gpedit and this made no difference.  I then checked these with the suggested registry changes.  (Interestingly, using the registry editor I found that the gpedit route had changed the CURRENT_USER but not the LOCAL_MACHINE.  I therefore changed this registry setting in addition.)  Unfortunately none of this has made any difference.

Hi, My apologies to see all fix can't resolve your issue,

Is so strange, but not afraid, we have a lot of experts that can help us with more troubleshooting!

With my best Regards,

R. Cord