Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (
More info?)
Barry Karas wrote:
> I have Windows XP Pro. Although I have plenty of hard
> disk space [famous last words <g>] and I should not
> care about the size of a download, the download
> message box does not indicate the size of the file. How
> would I know the size of a file that I'm downloading?
Shenan wrote:
> Most of the time that should be reported to you in by the download
> itself. There are still a few sites or reasons you might not see the
> size while downloading. You may want to try an alternative browser
> (such as Firefox0 to see if that gives you the information you want
> when downloading from websites (assuming that is what you mean.)
>
> Also - generally a decent website will inform you of the size of the
> file before you ever get to clicking on a download link.
johnf wrote:
> A decent website?
> Remember SP1? MS gave the size as a few hundred k's, but that was
> only the pre-loader, it finished up as 160M + (or was it SP2?)
You are talking about an update site - not a site where one is downloading
files in a normal manner. A separate application is running when you use
WindowsUpdate - not the native Internet Explorer download applications. The
original download from the WindowsUpdate site was small - to then run
locally and figure out what components were needed to download and install
on your system.
The size of SP1 and/or SP2 is not hidden.. Their maximum downloadable sizes
can easily be found by going to the direct download site for each - where
you are truly downloading files and not running a separate process other
than a simple file transfer through HTTP. =)
Of course - we are assuming that is what the OP is speaking of - actually
downloading applications and files using a normal download process.
--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram