-=PCTechTalk=- Cannot just click on links to download, must right click - This is new!

Hi all!

I am stumped!

For as long as I can remember, I have just clicked - (left mouse button) on 
a link and a dialog box with Save or Open would appear.
 I would then select Save and navigate to the folder in which I wanted the 
file downloaded.
The file would then be in that folder and a box would then tell me the 
download was complete and I had the option to open the file or close the 
dialog box.

Now, if I left click on the link, it immediately starts to download the file 
to my temp internet files directory.
The file will then be in that folder and a dialog box opens and tells me the 
download was complete and I had the option to open the file or close the 
dialog box.

I do not want the zip/rar  files going to my temp internet files directory. 
I want to have the option to say where they go.
I save my zips for a couple of reasons, but the biggest one is as a spare in 
case the program/files..whatever I downloaded gets corrupted or something, I 
can restore them.
Now, I have to go search for the zip to be able to store the zip where I 
want it.  Plus, with WinRar, when you go to unzip a file, the default folder 
shows on the line already..and the default is where the zip was downloaded. 
This is exactly the file in which I want the files unzipped.  This makes 
life so easy for me.  Now, with the new behavior, I have many more steps to 
do and more opportunities to make a mistake!  (Who me..make a 
mistake...haha! I am more likely to NOT miss an opportunity to make a 
mistake!)

In come cases I can right click and get the option to download the file to 
the directory I want it, but in most cases I cannot.  I many cases, it looks 
like I am going to be able to save the file, but when I go to navigate to 
the folder in which I want it stored, I see the name of the file is an htm 
file and indeed not the zip!

What has made that happen?  I do think it started after a Windows update a 
couple of weeks ago..maybe 2?  In any case, it is frustrating.

Is there some way to rectify this?  I have talked to some folks who say they 
have not experienced this at all.  I have been told there was some update 
and now this is the way it is, but no one has a real answer.  Even the folks 
who say this is the way it is now... have told me they can still left click 
and download files.

Another weird thing I have started experiencing..........
 When I see a graphic and it says larger image...you are suppose to be able 
to left click on it and see a larger image pop up in another window.  This 
happen about 50% if the time for me.  I have asked a friend of mine while we 
were on MSN to do the same thing I was.  Low and behold, she could get every 
single one to open..and I could get about half of them.
This is also recent I believe.  I did have a problem where I could not see 
any of the larger images, but when I checked with others and saw they could 
see them, I finally found a setting that was not allowing this.  Danged if I 
remember what it was, but I got it fixed.  If I could see none of the larger 
images, I could understand something was set wrong and look for a fix, which 
is what I did previously.  This sometimes thing is driving me nuts.  To 
confuse matters more.  Sometimes I can see the larger image on a second 
visit to the a site... and then maybe or maybe not the next time.  I cannot 
find any consistency to this...!  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

I have run full virus scans.  I have up to date virus definitions.  I have 
run adaware.  Doing these things has not changed this behavior.  I have a 
3.2 Sony Computer with 3 GB of DDR dual channel ram.  I have run clean just 
before trying these steps.

Any help or direction  you can give me will be most appreciated.

Thanks
Rose
Las
Vegas

 


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