Download links just 404

Jakabite · 10-10-2009, 02:37 PM

Hey,

I was trying to download Vista SP2 today (I thought I already had it, appears not), and so I went to the MS website, found the right link, etc.

I click download, I'm redirected, and then given then 'if browser does not redirect within 30 secs click here' thing. I am redirected, but it just 404s. Now, I thought this was an MS problem, and this seemed more likely as I tried the link in both FF and even IE (yikes), since I'm using Chrome. So I asked a few of my friends to try the link, over msn, and it worked fine for them, so it's obviously my problem. So I tried to download some other things. It works fine on 'save image as...' on images, and I tried downloading some random freeware, works fine, but it doesn't work when downloading Windows Live Messenger or, obviously, SP2, so it could just be MS products.

It would help if someone could shed some light on the situation.

Thanks alot.

P.S. I posted a thread in the games section about another issue, and was informed to download SP2, but I thought I'd create a new thread instead of sending that one off topic.

10-10-2009, 02:37 PM	#1 (permalink)
Jakabite Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 8 OS: Windows Vista SP2	Download links just 404 Hey, I was trying to download Vista SP2 today (I thought I already had it, appears not), and so I went to the MS website, found the right link, etc. I click download, I'm redirected, and then given then 'if browser does not redirect within 30 secs click here' thing. I am redirected, but it just 404s. Now, I thought this was an MS problem, and this seemed more likely as I tried the link in both FF and even IE (yikes), since I'm using Chrome. So I asked a few of my friends to try the link, over msn, and it worked fine for them, so it's obviously my problem. So I tried to download some other things. It works fine on 'save image as...' on images, and I tried downloading some random freeware, works fine, but it doesn't work when downloading Windows Live Messenger or, obviously, SP2, so it could just be MS products. It would help if someone could shed some light on the situation. Thanks alot. P.S. I posted a thread in the games section about another issue, and was informed to download SP2, but I thought I'd create a new thread instead of sending that one off topic.