Weird error that all my downloads get "Stopped"

hyfrehyfre

It goes all the way up to 100% then it says "stopped", how can i get rid of this annoyance please, meaning, how can i download .exe files, i mean, i dont need that layer of security in my life.

hyfrehyfre

please someone help me, i thought i was going to be able to fix this problem, but is 4 days already, I CANT DOWNLOAD .exe, i already tried going into chrome:\settings\ and turning off some security things, but IT JUST WONT LET ME DOWNLOAD software, why??? please help.

Ayespy

@hyfrehyfre Works perfectly fine here. Your problem is not with Vivaldi. Something else on your system is objecting to Vivaldi trying to download executables - Ie, something on your system does not fully "trust" Vivaldi.

Is your Vivaldi installed with default parameters "per user," installed for "all users" or standalone? What directory is it in? Have you tried running it "as administrator?"

hyfrehyfre

@Ayespy

as a matter of fact... i have not tried to open as administrator as dumb as it might sound...

Gwen-Dragon

Yes i tried private windows and uninstalling all extenssions also,

Also thanks for the reply, how can i know is not my ISP, as i told you i uninstalled firefox because i dont like it anymore... i dont want to open Microsoft edge, and i was trying to download opera jsut to download what i wanted but no luck downloading OPERA from vivaldi also...

hyfrehyfre

Hey !! i didnt worked with administrator.

But the problem was this.

For anyone reading, you need to go to "internet settings" and in privacy TURN OFF the option:

Launching aplications and unsafe files

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At least that did it for me... i dont encourage people to do this because well, safety reasons, but i have no diea why this has to be turned off??, anyone has an input on why is this a thing?.

Thank you so much.

Ayespy

@hyfrehyfre At least you have a way for it to work. But in Windows10 at least, this can actually relate to where and how you have Vivaldi installed. Windows objects to certain configurations on certain systems.

hyfrehyfre

@Gwen-Dragon

Yes indeed i find it weird, because i have Vivaldi installed in my office also and i never experienced this problem....i wonder if its really a malware blocking something and i just opened a door for it to work... hope not, but for the moment everything is working fine. Thank you so much for your time.

@Ayespy

It curious, the thing is that is working properly now, VIVALDI is indeed installed in the default folder and user folder also, so thank you very much for your time.

I hope this thread is useful for anyone reading in the future, but take in consideration that this SHOULD NOT HAPPEN, but it did worked for me, i just downloaded everything i needed and turned the option to "prompt" instead of "enabled".

I can understand that software like Utorrent or QBItorrent are in a grey list somewhere, which is fine and all, but i find it interesting that it lets me download google drive, google chrome, facebook messenger, skype etc... but it wont let me download OPERA, QBitorrent, Discord...weird. maybe is my ISP firewall

also as a side note i have been working with Firefox 56 for almost 2 years since Firefox moved to Quantum an deprecated the legacy addons, so i have been using a very old browser for a long time, so maybe when i made Vivaldi my main browser this settings where meant to change at some point in the past, meaning i didn't had installed any of the "new generation browsers".

Ayespy

@hyfrehyfre I have observed that from one machine to another, Win10 is inconsistent and illogical as to what it permits and what it allows. Once in the past, I had to uninstall Vivaldi and scrub all references to it from registry just in order for Win10 to allow me to update it. It kept telling me I did not have authorization to modify one of the related files. Even as admin, I lacked "authorization." No other machine ever did that to me, just this one. Another machine blocked me from updating because I had a "newer" version of Vivaldi on the machine. Indeed I did, in a different directory and under a different name. So I had to download and unpack the installer to update on that one, until the next update number was the highest available. Then it quit doing it. All has been clear sailing for the last couple of years or so since I scrubbed and started over on this tower, and solved the "newest" problem on the other tower. But Vivaldi is not the only app Win10 has shown an irrational "allergy" to.

andrewheard

I have been experiencing this exact same bug but only very recently. Possibly since a Windows 10 upgrade 2 weeks ago from 1803 to 1903 (May 2019 Update). All downloads are now "stopped". Downloads still work fine in Chrome, so I can't see how this relates to PC-wide internet settings. I always download to C:\Users\andrew\Desktop. I tried the suggested workaround of control panel > Internet Options > Internet > Launching apps: Enable (default was prompt?) but this made no difference. When I change the download folder to C:\Users\andrew\Downloads Vivaldi can now download again. From Windows Explorer I can create/ rename/ delete files on the desktop, and security properties for C:\Users\andrew\Desktop shows I have full admin rights. So why is the behavior different between Vivaldi & Chrome?

Ayespy

@andrewheard It may relate to Windows or any 3rd party security app on your machine labeling Vivaldi as an app that can't be "trusted."

andrewheard

Thanks @Ayespy. Maybe, but why has it changed in last 2 weeks, and why is Vivaldi now treated differently to Chrome? I don't have any 3rd party security programs. I found that printing to a PDF file in the desktop folder now has the same issues, so now have to print to downloads folder as well.

Ayespy

@andrewheard You would have to ask whoever is doing the blocking why they can't tell Vivaldi is still Vivaldi. Any number of security programs or security protocols from time to time treat Vivaldi as though it is a new and untrusted program, just because it updated. ONE of the reasons for this is that people who write these programs and protocols never heard of Vivaldi and don't even know it's a browser. Hence, it's a "new and suspicious program trying to access the internet." And they block it. Well-known browsers or close chrome knock-offs don't suffer this fate, because the authors of security software literally write provisions into their code to give special consideration to known browsers, and to not use heuristic-based detection techniques on them.

Edit: I should mention that in four and a half years of using multiple instances of Vivaldi on multiple machines, I have never had this happen to me. Solutions that have worked for people who did have it have ranged from white-listing Vivaldi with their AV or firewall, switching to another AV program, fixing proxy or DNS problems on their machine, changing their download settings so that they have a proper default folder (a nonexistent default folder address will do this), updating Windows, uninstalling and scrubbing all traces of Vivaldi from registry and reinstalling it, or even as simple as refreshing their profile.

andrewheard

Thanks but it seems odd. It's plain stock standard vanilla Windows, no other security programs. Therefore odd that no significant number of Vivaldi users are reporting this issue.

Ayespy

@andrewheard Over the past four and a half years, yours is about the sixth report I have seen. At least two of them were cured by properly assigning a default download folder. I also use vanilla Win10, and nothing else.

cortezdjesse

I'm glad I found this thread. My downloads begin to work again when I changed the folder back to the default windows download folder. I started to have this problem when I downloaded something month ago to another folder and didn't realize this would automatically stop my downloads.

I didn't mean to bump this thread but I spent weeks scratching my head on why its only Vivaldi that is stopping me from downloading anything until I've searched keyword on the forums to find a solution.

Ayespy

@cortezdjesse My default download folder is my desktop. The key is that one's default download folder has to actually exist, and has to be a folder that one's profile has the access permissions to write to it.

dustynoff

@hyfrehyfre
Thank you for this, i had the same problem for almost a year now with any Chromium based browsers (Opera, Vivaldi, ...) other browsers were working fine and it drove me nuts.
This setup got rid of the problem, it also works if you choose Prompt (the recommended option), i never get prompted for anything and download works perfectly.

controlport2

Hello altogether.

Actually I hate to dig out old threads... but this one is indeed the only one I was able to find on the net for this very problem...

It's the same problem for me, be it here in the office or at home... most downloads do work, but even downloading a simple PDF from a parcel service results in opening the download side panel and nothing happens.

I switched to Opera for quite a long time because from time to time Vivaldi refused to download, but tried Vivaldi again from time to time.

Now, that I found this thread, I hope there are others out there with the same problem and probably a solution.

I ran Vivaldi as Admin, I changed the Download-folder (to c:\downloads and then back to my standard profile-folder), uninstalled Vivaldi, installed it - no way.
Certain downloads do not work, others do: right this morning I downloaded several (big zipped) files from Google-Drive with no problem.
Now, I wanted to download a PDF from the parcel-service and... nothing (see above).

System: Windows 10, 21H1, i5-processor with 8 Gigs of RAM. Avast antivirus running in the background.

I would really like to be Vivaldi my "last and forever browser" but this download issue keeps me from that... this is really annoying.

Could somebody help me with this - please?

Best regards
Marc / controlport2

edit: I also have the default download drawer selected.