patch download

Umm. The patch is an executable... You just run it.
At least, it is on the only official place you can get it:
Official Patch download place

Ummm, then why wont it run after i download it? I have other EWF files that run ok,but it always seems they are zip files and I just run them from the extractor, in this case it says the file is corrupt or cant be recognised, try downloading it again.Which I've done countlessly.Is my computer seeing the file in the wrong format?

Umm if you're getting it from that link, it's a .exe.
It says it right on the page.

i cant get it to run also, shows up as ewf file not exe. what are both of us doing wroung?

Try renaming it to exe.

Sometimes you need to shut off the firewall to run some of those. I've had that problem and it was because I had CA internet security suite, and it really messed up how I could download stuff. I switched to Trend Micro's internet suite, and all of those problems vanished. I'm not sure if that's your problem or not, but that's a similar problem I had with that internet suite.

UMMMMMMM it seems it was a firewall problem,if you have windows firewall on as well as another firewall activated in my case CA firewall it wont download properly,i turned off my CA firewall then downloaded it successfully. UMMMMMMM thanks for no help whatsoever.

you are right its the firewall