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

Thanks Mike,

Unfortunately, that did not fix it for me.

I just checked and there are two - Automatic prompting for file downloads.
        It is enabled.

Next is File Download
I have enable.  (If I say disable, it will not allow me to download a file - 
tried this just now . that is why I am sure if I say disable it will not 
allow any downloads haha!)

I am running IE 5.0.2900.2180.xpsp_gdr.050301-1519

So, I still cannot just click on a download link and have it give me a 
dialog box asking if I want to open or save the file.

Evidently I was not clear on my second problem.  I apologize What is 
happening has nothing to do with MSN.  I just mentioned it to say I had 
someone else on line..(in Virginia and my other half here) doing exactly the 
same thing as I was...and the results of those two were the same.  I was the 
only one not seeing a larger image

The problem is not site specific for me.  I am giving a link here to show 
what I mean.  This is just an example.  The same thing happens on other 
sites.

On this link, when I click on the graphic and it says larger image I DO SEE 
IT!  The larger graphic opens in a new window!
http://www.scrapbookersplayground.com/Cart/index.php?main_page=product_scrapbook_info&products_id=1447


On this link, when I click on the graphic and it says larger image I DO NOT 
SEE IT!
http://www.scrapbookersplayground.com/Cart/index.php?main_page=product_scrapbook_info&products_id=1448

I did this again and again, and it did not come up.  I could hear the 
click.. and looked for the new window to pop up and it did not.
Then I just tried it again.. all within the last two minutes...  and the 
larger image comes up in another window!  What the heck is this?
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Rose





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike" <mikebike@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 5:17 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Cannot just click on links to download, must 
right click - This is new!


Hi Rose
I use IE 6 current updates

I have gone into Tools> Internet options>
Security > Custom Level>
Security Settings> Settings>
Downloads> Automatic prompting for file downloads

Enable

I don't use any chat or MSN so I can't answer that one<G>
I hope this helps

Mike ~ one of the Moderators
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On 10/27/2005 at 4:58 PM Tech Rose - LoveBytes wrote:

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 some 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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