Re: Downloading programs comes up like images!

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From: Alan Edwards (edwards_at_southcom.com.au)
Date: 03/03/04 

Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:57:51 +1100

If it is only .exe files, then read on and see if this is relevant:
You may have an invalid plugin.
Netscape-Style Plug-ins Do Not Work After Upgrading Internet Explorer
[Q303401]
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303401

Remove the plugin with Regedit.exe
Start-Run-Regedit.exe
Navigate down to this key and remove it, after exporting it as a
normal safety precaution.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Plugins\Extension\.exe

If that key exists, then you will see what plugin has been installed.
The key does not normally exist.

Your other question is not on the same topic at all and I suggest you
repost as a separate question if nobody answers.

...Alan 

-- 
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "Denis Wong"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Download certain EXEs that are initiated by scripts (i.e. 
>download links that link first to a script, which 
>redirects to the EXE) IE downloads it to the temp folder, 
>then opens it inside the browser like an image- blank 
>with the icon with the triangle, circle and square. 
>Someone tell me what's going on?
>
>And on that same topic, just how do you reinstall IE6 on 
>XP? Now MS made it a pain in the a-- by not allowing 
>repairs to be done, let alone reinstall to fix problems.

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