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DB - 28 Sep 2004 01:03 GMT

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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Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] - 28 Sep 2004 09:49 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

>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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DB - 28 Sep 2004 10:21 GMT

Thanks for your reply, but I've already tried that and it
din't work (I've even tried putting a site in the safe
zone and enabled all options there, and it still didn't
work). I think it might have to do with the fact that I
use a different program for video files instead of WMP. I
tried to change it back, though, and the problem persisted
(although I didn't try rebooting). Isn't there perhaps
some registry setting to circumvent this behaviour?

Tnx, DB

PS; that language is Dutch, not German... I hate it when
people call Dutch German :p

PPS; I won't change browser btw, sorry ;)

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Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] - 28 Sep 2004 22:53 GMT

I can only think that if you were to copy the URL and paste it into
Media Player File->Open URL, it would probably work. Then again that
would work with most any player.

I don't really run XP unless I have to, so I'm afraid I don't have any
good suggestions. Definitely you could try a range of options to save
the file - Streambox and other stream-download packages might help
here.

I've suggested another browser (really, IE is 5 years or more out of
date) but OK I can see you won't do that - sorry ;-)

Also sorry, I looked again and you're right that it's not German - my
oops ! I was confused by your nntp posthig host being @.phx.gbl, I
thought it was a german one.

Cheers - Neil

>Thanks for your reply, but I've already tried that and it
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