Hey Philo

If my 75yo father can use it (and loves it when compared with windows), anyone can. It supports flash (and HTML5 video) just fine; updates work well, and it's much less likely to acquire an infection and it works well on older hardware.

Problem with your ISP/internet connection?

It's a small file. Move it over on a thumb drive (from a machine that

What OS? Updated to somewhere near current, versus 5 years out of date?

Did you try going into control panel, removing it, then doing an install?

Turned off antivirus during install? I've never had that be a problem, that I can recall anyway, but it's one of the suggestion if you're having trouble.

If it's an old machine with XP , does it have SP3 installed?

Are you downloading it here:

Possibly...uninstall it completely

reboot and try installing fresh

Also, which browser are you using,

it might work with Chrome

I've played with Ubuntu , and liked it . My wife on the other hand ... and she needs to be able to operate this system .

It's not the small file , it's the main .exe install file that comes after . It stops at 50% ...

Load the exe file directly. Don't let something ELSE pull down what you want/need. Look for a "network administrator install" (or "offline") version (i.e., the sort of thing an IT department would download ONCE and then install on hundreds of machines).

See

Cool , thanks for the link . I downloaded the version 18.something release and installed it . Unfortunately this hasn't helped ... OK , so everything says update to v21, but when I follow a link on the page your link went to it indicates that v21 is in beta testing ... and I just checked , the laptop is running v20. and it works just fine . Frustrating !

Most of these things that you download a DOWNLOADER to access are also available in their "final" form -- but you have to look a bit harder to find them.

I tend to install things "offline" -- using one machine to find the REAL file and download it, then sneakernetting it to the actual target machine.

And, archiving a copy so I don't have to go hunting for it, again, at a later date (these things like to "disappear", over time).

Now really feel sheepish ... disabled the antivirus and all is well .