Re: can't run video files from websites

From: Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] (neil_at_nospam.com)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:49:21 GMT

This is a result of the new XP-SP2 'Security Center' change.

The change is for your computer's security, and prevents automatic
file downloads. But, it should not be showing for registered file type
content - XP should look inside the file to decide if it really *is* a
media player file type.

Solutions :

1) Use a real browser with fewer security issues to download the
file, eg Firefox : http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

2) Turn off this behaviour in IE, once you have read and understood
the security problem it might cause :

IE Menu Tools->Options->Security->Internet
Look for 'Automatic Prompting for File Downloads' (or the equivalent
in German language) and change the setting. Also look for 'File
Download' and select 'Enable'.

HTH
Cheers - Neil

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 17:03:41 -0700, "DB" <nospam@darkbulb.com> wrote:

>In the past you could choose to open a file and not save
>it, now the dialog box for opened gets covered right away
>with a save only box, so you have to save it in order to
>open it, anybody know how to change this, thanks
>
>(example: http://www.darkbulb.com/videodownload.jpg)

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