What firewall, anti-virus application or security suite is installed? There
are some that cause problems which do not appear immediately.
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"Louis Koo" <> wrote in message
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>I installed a clean version of Vista Ultimate on my office desktop 2 days
> ago
> and updated everything through Microsoft Update. Everything seemed fine
> until I tried
> to download a HP printer software which was about 245MB, when the download
> was
> finished and at the end of copying it to the HDD the error message popped
> up:
>
> "Error 0x800704C8: The requested operation cannot be performed on a file
> with a
> user-mapped section open"
>
> Clicking Retry didn't help and I had to cancel the download eventually.
> Then
> I tried to
> download a smaller ATI driver software everything went ok. I have another
> desktop at
> home with the same OS and the problem didn't happen, the whole file
> downloaded fine.
> Searching Microsoft's knowledge base didn't return anything. I found it on
> Google that it
> might have been due to anti-virus software but stopping my anti-virus
> software didn't help
> either. Does anyone know the reason and is there a fix for this problem?
>
> Louis
>