Re: disabling downloading features

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From: war17 (war_at_nospam.com)
Date: 04/25/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 17:25:21 -0700

Go to Control Panel > Folder Options > File Types. Scroll down to the
extension of the file you want to download (i.e.. exe or pdf, etc.). Click
on "Advanced" and check "Confirm open after download" 

-- 
Warren
For additional help, post in
http://groups.msn.com/HelpforInternetExplorerorWindowsME/homepage
"waz" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3d4501c42a56$ea646aa0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> how do you disable the feature that has ie automatically
> save the file to a specified directory?

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