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Against Company Policy

Our files are normally downloaded as something called an ZIP file. Inside the ZIP file are all the individual backgrounds compressed into one smaller file. When you open the ZIP file your computer will extract and uncompress all the backgrounds. Larger companies quite often will place an automatic block, to stop their employees from downloading an ZIP file.
This is an example message from a large corporation.

If you feel your company is blocking you from downloading templates, please contact your IT department for help.

An incomplete download is the most common problem

When a file is downloading, your computer should display a progress report. This is normally a blue or green bar that gets longer as the file is downloaded.

So what should you do?

• Simply re-download the file again from the link originally provided
  http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/cgiscripts/uniquecode123/SetName4Code.htm
  
• This sometimes does not work for some computers. As when you re-download the file, your computer thinks it already has the file, so does not re-download it.
  In this case many people find that if they delete the incomplete file, before re-downloading the file, it works everytime.
  In this case right click the file and make sure the 3 letter extension is .zip

[filename] is not a valid Win32 application

This can be caused by various reasons.

• Sometimes it's caused by an incomplete download. Windows tries to execute (run) the file, but because part of the file is missing it gives the error. Solution - re-download the file.
• Sometimes it's caused by your computer renaming the file. The file should always end in .zip not .exe. You can right click a file after it has downloaded and choose "rename" to rename it from .xyz to .zip
  Then you may be able to double click the file to extract the backgrounds as normal
• Some people find that if they have WinZip or similar installed, they can start WinZip, then click the "File" menu, choose "open archive", then "extract" the files manually.
• Some large corporations "lock down" their computers for security and safety reasons. One of the lock down procedures is to block any downloads (or opening) of .zip (zipped) files. If you think this may be the case, contact your IT department to download the files as individual .pot (powerpoint) files.

Please remember - we are here to help

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