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by swat3commander

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I HAVE A QUESTION ITS A PROBLEM I HAVE EVERYTIME I WANT TO DOWNLOAD .EXE FILE I DON'T GET IT ALL I GET COMING UP IS HTM AND ITS ONLY 6KB'S WHEN OPEN IT IT JUST OPEN'S THE LINK I AM ALREADY AT THIS IS FOR EXPLORER 5.5 WHEN GETTING MAIL IN WHICH I HAVE TO USE NETSCAPE 4.06 AND IF THE FILE IS A.EXE WHEN DOWNLOAD IS DONE WINAMP OPEN IT UP WINAMP I KNOW WINAMP SHOULD ONLY OPEN MP3'S,WAV, FILES BUT NOT A .EXE WHICH IS A PROGRAM SETUP FILE SO REALLY I HAVE 2 PROBLEM HERE EXPLORER AND NETSCAPE I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPEN HERE WITH THAT I HATE TO FORMAT MY DRIVE AGAIN JUST TO GET THINGS BACK TO NORMAL BUT YOU KNOW WHATS FUNNNY I GO TO MP3.COM AND DOWNLOAD A FILE WHICH WORKS THIS IS WHEN USING EXPLORER BUT WITH EXPLORER ANYTHING BUT MP3 FILE FORMAT LIKE .EXE DOES NOT WORK JUST A HTM LINK FILE.

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by george.lostia

This sounds to me as if you are saving the file as an HTML file if you change the Save as type when prompted for location to .exe or *.* you problem should be ok

by swat3commander

Its still the same I save mp3's files to my harddrive I never us open from its location because it goes into TEMP folder I save all files where I know its at ect but this is still not work I still get the HTM link which I'm already at thats the filebut it is wrong I should have been getting the file this happen from my e-mail account yahoo and hotmail so I know its my computer something went wrong with out me knowing.

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