The PS3 would stop all downloads when you did -anything- on the. And content was downloading in the background. Can the PS4 download during game or video. Jun 12, 2013 Originally Posted by Sajiko Why not just download overnight or while playing a game on PS3 while offline? The download. (didn't want to stop background download.

It happens to the best; sometimes you get so overly excited downloading demos, games and free content from the PlayStation Store, that you accidentally download something you didn't want in the first place. Fortunately, it's not too late. Stopping the download before it is finished means you won't have to go through the trouble of deleting it from your console after it installs.

Stopping a download only takes a few seconds and is readily done by anyone old enough to work a PS3 controller. Press 'Left' or 'Right' on the controller to scroll over to the Network section on the XMB (cross media bar), also known as the PS3's Home menu.

Press 'Up' or 'Down' on the controller to scroll to Download Management, an option that appears only when you are actively downloading something to your PS3. Press 'X' to select Download Management. Here you will see a list of active downloads. Press 'Up' or 'Down' to highlight the download you want to cancel.

Select it by pressing the 'Triangle' button, choose 'Cancel,' and press 'X.' This interrupts the download and removes it from your console.

I have a brand-new Compaq laptop. Straight out of the box, my internet connection comes alive and starts downloading stuff. I shut off Windows Update, I found that Slingbox downloaded 65 megabytes of mystery stuff (I don't have a slingbox and didn't know the software was on my new machine until I uninstalled it).

Java has downloaded 6.5 megabytes of upgrades twice without asking me. There is some sort of Hewlett-packard upgrades and dagnostics that does downloads and 'checks' that I can't turn off. I don't want to disable this stuff permanently, I just want to choose when it happens. How do I find out what is accessing my internet connection and what it is downloading, and from where? Dr. Picza 3 Software more. Do not connect to a active Net Connection as this is how the thing is supposed to work.