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Cant Download anything

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I ran with Avira and malwarebytes to no avail.  I just reinstalled windows, I've been wanted to do this for a while anyway and now I have a legitimate reason to do so.  From now on I'll be using Avast! though.

So yesterday I started screwing around with custom themes.. I got Rainmeter, a skin for rainmeter called Tech A, and then a windows theme Appows Peek.  Since then I havent been able to download anything off any browser.  Chrome gave me the error of "Insufficient Permissions"  Firefox's download screen never even opened after I repeatedly clicked the download button.  And IE came up with the downloading thing, went to 100% and then nothing happened, and I cant find where it downloaded to if anywhere.  A problem may have been i messed with the Shell32.DLL file, backed up my old one, the new one crashed my comp but then I just replaced with the backup and I was fine till I noticed this.  The Chromes insufficient permission thing seems to be adding up, Ive had a few permissions problems with other things, but I gave myself full power to my Downloads folder, and full permissions on chrome itself and I still cant download.  AND it wont let me change the download folder.  I scanned with Avira and Windows defender to no avail as well. HELP.

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if you can restore till before you started screwing around with the computer

CPU: i5 3570K; Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V; RAM: Corsair Vengeance (2x4GB); GPU: MSI R7850 Twin Frozr; Case: Thermaltake Commander MS-I Snow Edition; Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue (500GB); PSU: Thermaltake Modular PSU 750 Watts

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