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Persistence: “Clear the Cache and Try Again”
When you do suffer a download corrupted by Internet Explorer and you wish to retry it in the hope it will work the next time (or the time after that, or…), it is absolutely essential that you first clear the browser cache to get rid of the incomplete download. If you fail to do this, Internet Explorer will, while going through the motions to persuade you that it is downloading the file from the Web site, actually just copy the version saved in the cache, handing you another identically truncated copy. To clear the browser cache in Internet Explorer 6 (heaven knows where they'll hide it in future versions, all in the interest of improving your “browsing experience”), go to the “Tools” menu and select “Internet Options”, which will display a tabbed dialogue; choose the “General” tab. In the middle of this page is a section titled “Temporary Internet files”, which is Microsoftlish for what everybody else calls the browser cache. Click the “Delete Files” button, and when the squawk box pops up, confirm that you really, really want to discard these copies of pages you've viewed, including the truncated download. Click OK to close the “Internet Options” dialogue, and you're now ready to retry the download. Actually, after clearing the cache, I would quit and restart Internet Explorer in case it's got something squirrelled away in its pointed little mushy-brained head remembering the bad download, but this is probably just superstition. Still, it can't hurt.

The Solution: Use a Better Browser

By far, the wisest course for the intelligent Internaut is to abandon Microsoft Internet Explorer entirely, putting its multitudinous security holes, truncated downloads, cache pollution, and eccentric rendering of standards-compliant pages behind them and upgrade to a secure, compatible, and reliable browser such as:

* Mozilla Firefox
* Opera

both of which are free. You will still have to use Internet Explorer to run Windows Update, which relies on Explorer-only (and perilous) “ActiveX” components, but after a few hours getting used to it, you'll almost certainly find that one of the competently implemented browsers listed above will improve your Web experience in numerous ways in addition to solving the problem of corrupted downloads.