instructional videos to solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G7TJyZPKPo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB6RR-3vJZ4
I have posted on this subject before but so far had nothing helpful.
The problem is this I cannot load programs via the web (this may also be true of programs from disc) I have tried to install programs from Bank Tree, Dassault Systems, and numerous others and they all freeze during the initiation stages, I have tried installing in safe mode but this will not work as due to the safe mode, something is missing, so I turned off the firewall but this had no effect at all, this situation is driving me mad I'll bet it's the pesky Windows 8.1 that is the problem, the sooner it goes the better, all you chaps with brains the size of the universe should be able to help me

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