Okay.
im not sure if this problem is uiniversal to all pc's but when i tried to access my downloader(by clicking the link before i changed the file to a zip) it said that there was a problem with the exe file once i downloaded it.
I counteracted this problem by simply clicking "save"insted of "open" when it downloads. so the downloader is saved to the harddrive then open it from the folder. hopefully ill be albe to make this simpler in the future.