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

Hi Rose,
they both open for me.
But is see it is a Javascript.
Don't know it that make a difference for you, 
I have the latest Sun Java installed.

MtM

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On 10/27/2005 at 5:49 PM Tech Rose - LoveBytes wrote:

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=3Dproduct_scr=
apbook_info&products_id=3D1447


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=3Dproduct_scr=
apbook_info&products_id=3D1448

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 ----- 

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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