I've been using this site for years to figure out which Windows services can be disabled without causing any issues:

http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/

Well I was finally able to get it. When the download would stall out, I'd just cancel it and try again. Eventually it worked. Not an ideal solution, but on to making music!

Thanks for trying to help, but no such luck. I was able to download the regular installer fine, but the Pro Studio one continues to start and then stall out. I have disabled all anti-virus, anti-malware, and firewalls to no avail.

Greetings friends I just upgraded from Pro Studio 7 to 8 and I'm trying to download the installer. It's taking an insanely long time (as in 31mb of 546mb has taken several hours). The estimated download time fluctuates from a couple hours to a couple days to completely stalled. I've tried multiple P...