Well here's the latest. IE stopped working when MS shut it down. from that time it would not load fully and I've always got a "connection failed. Contact your server' warning. Never worried about it, just used Firefox. So continuing my download problems, yesterday I changed my search engine to DuckDuckGo from Google, but that did nothing. Discovered quite a few pages on the net from people having the same problems with answers I've already tried. Don't know if any of these folks got fixed.