RE: Internet Explorer & downloads

  • From: "Robert S. Batchelor" <leehigh73@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:48:27 -0500

I think the sound you are referring to, is when you browser detects a
firewall setting preventing you to run an active X control on the page. If
that the case you need to go to your menu toolbar,options and then security
and make the change 




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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 6:40 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Internet Explorer & downloads

Peter Holdstock wrote:

> Whenever I try and run some downloads such as IE 7 from the Windows 
> Vista site, or drivers from my manufacturers web site, I get a high 
> and low pitched bleep and nothing downloads.

Could your firewall software be making that noise? Also, why are you trying
to download IE7 from the Windows Vista site, not the IE site (presumably
want the XP version not the Vista version, as IE7 is built into Vista)?

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