How to use the "Web Publishing Wizard"

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Danny Howard

Summary: Can I add myself as an option as a "hosting
provider" and if so where the heck do I find that
documentation?

Background:

Every where I go, I see this "Web Publishing Wizard" and I
keep thinking it should be useful.

So occasionally I click on it. It says that it will help
me publish files to the web. Aha! I like to do this!
Okay, let us publish files to the web. The friendly Wizard
will help me!

But the friendly Wizard believes that the only web I would
ever wish to publish to is "MSN" ... but, I have my own web
site. Can't I just give it an FTP address?

So, hypothetically, if I actually wanted to use the "web
Publishing Wizard" to do something like "publish files to
the web" how could I actually configure it so that I could
publish files to the web, where the web is actually "a
hosting provider on the the Internet" and not merely "the
Microsoft Media Partner"?

E-mail responses entirely welcome. I can hack the registry
if I need too. I think it is particularly clever if I can
make a user-friendly Wizard actually work by hacking the
registry. I am sorely disappointed that the user-friendly
wizard can't just take an FTP address. And yes, I know
about "web folders" but the point is that if I have a
button in my file browser that says "publish files to the
web" it should actually do that, dag-nabbit!

Thanks,
-danny
 
I'm looking for the same thing; figured there should be some way to change the default. Did you ever find a way to do it?
 
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