Dreamspark download manager error

Of course i have always did those things, i was reinstalling SDM, disabling firewall, connecting directly to internet without any suceed. All my downloads with SDM were failures. Everyone having issues downloading from DreamSpark,. Ack, and sorry that I missed this post before Konrad :.

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Sign in to vote. Any suggestions? Tuesday, August 14, AM. Sorry to hear about this Lanie. Who do I contact? Tuesday, August 14, PM. Thank you for contacting DreamSpark Customer Support. If no location selection is available, the download may fail to complete because no Internet connection was found, the Internet connection was lost or a firewall or proxy server exists between the client station and hosting location.

Please try again later". When I click on resume download after this error,it starts again but gives same error after some time but starts again by resuming.

When download finishes, it gives unpacking error and suggests to download the product again. It has happened so many times with some of my friends as well , I'm very frustrated, is there a solution to this problem? My suggestions may or may not provide an answer for Ahmed, but they seem to work in resolving SecureDownloadManager download problems for me. I've found that when my download stalls, even after many restarts, it has been due to SecureDownloadManager not having admin privileges which I often forget about at the time.

When I've restarted SecureDownloadManager with the option to Run as Administrator it has managed to pick up where it left off and it completes the download process. The problem is in finding SecureDownloadManager. If you have a link in the start menu, right click on the tile and select Open file location. Then right click on the link and select Properties. You'll find the location of SecureDownloadManager in Start in: If you don't have a link you can find SecureDownloadManager in the registry by searching the keys for SecureDownloadManager and getting the execution path for it.

In my case it was in,. Of course you need to enable hidden folders to get to the AppData folder. When you find SecureDownloadManager. As to why the problem with SecureDownloadManager has persisted for so long is anybody's guess. But I do know I've wasted a lot of hours on this problem and I know I'm not alone. It does, however, serve as a good example of how not to program, eh?

I have to disagree with Dukeling. This question is on-topic in a programming forum because many, many computer programming students are wasting their time with failed downloads when they could be busy programming. If you can't get the tools you can't program.

My latest case was in downloading a copy of Windows Server R2 to install in a virtual instance to isolate testing of software in a particular environment. So downloading an os, at least in my case, qualifies as a programming task. For students having issues with the SDM, please send an email to dreamspark kivuto.