Windows 10 downloads saving exe files as text

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Ipad Apple Mobile Devices. Staff online. Cookiegal Administrator. Members online Cookiegal cwwozniak euuyeooss Gevans murdock Total: members: 5, guests: I've also noticed that the name of the download file often appears to be erroneously long, as if it naming the file as the download link instead of the files name.

Other times I have noticed that instead of saving the file appropriate file extension, it saves the extension as part of the name. And also the download often seems to fail with 0 bytes downloaded. In cases where the file does download as a complete text file, I have been able to append the appropriate extension, and the file appears to be OK after that.

For example, I have been able to add ". I haven't noticed any other problems with Windows 10, and none of the other installed browsers exhibit this problem. Posted 19 June - PM. I read one thread on TenForums from where that was a cause, but the poster did not identify the product. I attempted a delete and full reinstall of Edge using Windows PowerShell. While the re-installation was successful, it exhibited the same behavior with downloads.

In any case, after that I decided not to further experiment, and wiped my Windows 10 partition with a prior image. I make a point of using Macrium Reflect free version for imaging my system in case of such. Posted 20 June - AM. Posted 20 June - PM. Thanks, I should make a point of doing more frequent full-backups. It was a week or so out of date, and so I did need to do a little updating, etc. But not bad.

In my case this happened with a completely up to date Windows 10 Pro install. I installed the Creators Update at first opportunity a month or two ago. My version shows and OS Build I think some system files must have become corrupted or deleted somehow. And full re-install of Edge also won't necessarily fix this issue. Posted 11 July - AM.

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Thank you! New to the forum so apologies if I've broken any rules by adding this post. I ran into this problem with a new PC which only had Edge as a browser. If the user picks a target filename, you can copy the exe file content into the filestream you get from the dialog. If the file is located on a server somewhere, it is simpler to use e. Take a look at the link to get an example for this.

This triggers the default download dialog of the browser and the user can then save the file to their local drive. Where do you get this exe file from? Is is part of your resources, or simply added as content to the XAP file?

You need to load the file first. To load a resource, for example, you use this method here. You can then use the CopyTo method to copy the content to the stream you get from the SaveFileDialog. Make sure that you get the Uri string right, depending on how you added the file to your project see the sample code here. It's likely that the uri is incorrect.

Again, sample strings for all variants are demonstrated in the sample source code here.