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April 17, 2004 at 12:04 AM
digital_dna

Internet Explorer and .zip

by digital_dna . Updated 22 years, 2 months ago

For some reason my XP Internet Explorer has told itself to auto download zip files. How do I turn this off? I think one time a long time ago I was downloading something and I accidently hit the key to not ask me what to do with this file or something like that.

Now, whenever I download a zip file it just starts downloading without asking me where to put it, and then it opens it up, so I think it’s doing that lame “open from source” or something like that.

Please help me get my Internet Explorer to do the right thing before I get a virus of something… Why a program would auto open anything is beyond me. Stupid feature. I have resorted to right-clicking the file and selecting save-as. Hopefully this just be a temporary solution to the problem..

Thanks,
Digital_DNA

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