windows xp

hello.
first.. i am not very good in english.
sorry for that.

second...i have few questions and i don't know if got the right newsgroups.

i have boght new comp with windows xphome
then, i have installed java because so that i could go to icq online page.
http://go.icq.com

then i have installed visual studio 6.0.

after that, java didn't work. because some previous version from the cd disc
was instaled.

i erased it, and download the one from java.com again.

icq and other chats worked just fine, but now i cant download any .zip or
exe. files.

that is, I cant, but when i try to run them, "bad file header, courupted
files or something like that apperas

whats wrong?

thank you very much



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