Ubuntu wont let me download anything outside of browser

Attachments: Up to 10 attachments including images can be used with a maximum of 3. Your question is very vague. Please provide more information on what you are trying to do and how exactly do you try to do it and what do you see. Screenshot can help a lot to understand the issue, so please add relevant screenshot s.

I'm sorry for the vagueness, so i tried downloading google chrome since thats the normal browser i use and whenever i try to click on the Download button on google chrome it doesn't start downloading, nor can i access websites like youtube nor a listing on etsy, i;m thinking the problem is the internet explorer enchanced security, or not do you know how i may disable it i used the Microsoft Datacenter.

Thank you alot! Unsolicited bulk mail or bulk advertising. Any link to or advocacy of virus, spyware, malware, or phishing sites. Any other inappropriate content or behavior as defined by the Terms of Use or Code of Conduct. Any image, link, or discussion related to child pornography, child nudity, or other child abuse or exploitation. User Replied on August 20, Hello,. Are you using a third-party anti-virus software?

Try disabling it then retry installing the software. Windows 10 has Windows Defender integrated into Windows. Windows Defender will disable if a third-party software is installed. Was this reply helpful? Can you provide the file extension of your file.

I am guessing that, you are downloading a unsupported archive format. Like rar which very popular in windows does not have default support in Ubuntu and for it you need to install unrar to open it. So give us the file extension. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.

Archive Manager is Ubuntu's default application for handling archive files. Best not to 'fix' it, it's probably working just fine. You can replace it with something like 7-Zip from the Software Center, though this is unnecessary. Auto Run can't do anything with an archived or compressed file, you have to extract the archive first.

Depending on the file type, you likely already have a default program to handle whatever it is. Auto Run and Archive Manager are different things, as explained above. Sometimes this is easy in Ubuntu, and other times it isn't.

For example, the name of an Archive Manager process is file-roller. If you have trouble figuring it out, you can usually find the information online without too much trouble or if you can't, you can post a question about it.

You can pipe ps 's output to grep to narrow things down. Suppose it was Archive Manager that was causing the problem. Then you could run:. You'll see an entry for your own grep command, plus an entry for file-roller. This gives it the chance to do last-minute cleanup like flushing file buffers, signaling to remote servers that it is about to disconnect for protocols that do that , and releasing other sorts of resources. To do this, use the kill command:. The process can ignore that signal, and will do so when malfunctioning under certain circumstances.

So you should check to see that it worked. If it didn't, kill it with SIGKILL , which it cannot ignore, and which always works except in the rare case where the process is in uninterruptible sleep or if it is not really running, but is rather a zombie process.

Press the up arrow key to bring up previous commands, for ease of typing. In rare instances for your own processes, or always with processes belonging to root or another user besides yourself, you must kill the process as root. To do that, prepend sudo including the trailing space before the above kill commands. If the above commands don't work or you're told you don't have the necessary access to kill the process, try it as root with sudo. By the way, kill -KILL is the same as the widely popular kill It works on x86, but that doesn't mean it will necessarily work everywhere.

In this way, kill -KILL is more likely to successfully end the process than kill But they're equivalent on x86, so feel free to use it there if you like. If you know there are no other processes with the same name as the one you want to kill, you can use killall instead of kill and the name of the process instead of the process ID number.

If a process runs at or very near the highest possible priority or to state it more properly, at or near the lowest possible niceness , it could potentially render your graphical user interface completely, or near-completely, unresponsive.

However, in this situation, you would likely not be able to switch to a virtual console and run commands or maybe even reboot.

If a process or a combination of processes running at normal or moderately elevated priority are slowing your machine down, you should be able to kill them using the technique in the section above.

You can install any browser available in the Microsoft Store and browse to any other search engine website. If you want to install a browser or any other app not in the Microsoft Store, you'll need to switch to Windows 10 Pro. Try checking with an app's publisher for the latest info on when that app is coming to the Microsoft Store. If you need the app right away, you'll need to switch to Windows 10 Pro to install it. Windows 10 S More