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From: "Mike Hatfield" <mjhatfield@msn.com>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk
Subject: Re: IE4 and downloads
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:41:14 -0000
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Ed Federmeyer wrote in message <72tmck$o3u7@scea>...
>On Windows98, and Internet Explorer 4, I used to get a file-selection
dialog
>box whenever I would download files from the Internet, and one time I
>un-checked the "show this dialog" box.  (Thinking I'd see if I like that
>better, and I could always change it back.)
>
>Now, as soon as a file is downloaded (say a .ZIP file), the winzip program
>runs and tries to unzip it, or if it's already an .EXE, it'll run it.  I
>don't really like this, as I'd much rather have the .ZIP file on my system
>(without trying to find it in the internet-file-cache!), and unzip it
later!
>I'd much rather not auto-run .EXE files either!
>
>I can't seem to find where that option was saved!
>
>Does anyone know how to make Internet Explorer 4 go back to prompting me
for
>where a downloaded file gets saved to, instead of auto-unzipping or running
>it!???!
>
>EdF

Hi Ed,

Try this: run up a Explorer (not IE) window and choose Options from the View
menu. Go to the File Types tab and scroll down the list until you see WinZip
file. Select it and click Edit. You should see a dialog with an option
"Confirm open after download" at the bottom - re-enable this flag.

Hope that helps!
Mike

Mike Hatfield
mhatfield at ridgeway-sys dot com