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Joey

I am using XPP SP2 with Excel 2002.
When I want to download an excel file from website, there
is no message that ask me to Save or Open, it just
automatically open the excel file on website.

How to get this message back? Please help.
 
Hi Joey :-)

Try the following and see if it helps:

Not Prompted for Download Location When Downloading File
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;162345

or......................

Tools/ Internet options/ advanced is enable install on demand [internet
explorer] checked? if so, uncheck it. The same goes for enable install on
demand [other]

or......

Open My Computer, or any other form of Windows Explorer. Select Tools ->
Folder Options ->
File Types tab & select your file type (in my case .zip). Click advanced,
and There It Is! "[ ] Confirm
open after download."

If these steps do not resolve your problem, please post back to this thread
with the details and any error messages.

Hope this helps

Jan :)
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I am using XPP SP2 with Excel 2002.
When I want to download an excel file from website, there
is no message that ask me to Save or Open, it just
automatically open the excel file on website.
Click to expand...

This is because you have MS Office installed on your machine. To fix this
for .PPT files do the following in Windows Explorer

Tools>Folder Options>File Types

Highlight PPT and then select Advanced

If you wish to be prompted to download select 'Confirm open after download'
and deselect 'Browse in same window'.
 
Hi Joey :-)
I am using XPP SP2 with Excel 2002.
When I want to download an excel file from website, there
is no message that ask me to Save or Open, it just
automatically open the excel file on website.

How to get this message back? Please help.
Click to expand...

Here is some more information I overlooked on this issue:

IE6 opens up downloaded files instead of prompting to save

Courtesy of Jim Byrd:

You need to check this and/or set it for those not checked for each file
type that you download:

Open Windows Explorer and go to Tools | Folder Options | File Types.
Scroll down to the file type in question, e.g. for .zip
Find the .zip association (may be WinZip File, for this example)
Click on Edit or Advanced, depending on your Windows version, and check
the "Confirm open after download" box

If no joy, then see the information below:

Open a DOS window and enter at the prompt "ipconfig
/flushdns" (without the quotes), then enter at the prompt "ipconfig
/registerdns" (without the quotes). Test and if this has fixed
things, stop here. Else,

Now IF AND ONLY IF YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WORKING WITH THE REGISTRY, open
Regedit and browse to this key if you have it (I don't currently have a
copy of Win98 installed, so I can't check for you).

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]

If you do and it contains the following keys (not necessarily with these
particular values):

"NegativeCacheTime"=dword:0000012c
"NetFailureCacheTime"=dword:0000001e
"NegativeSOACacheTime"=dword:00000078

then Export this entire entry for backup, and then set each of these
values to dword:00000000

See if that helps. If not merge back the .reg file you exported above
to restore the original values. Please post back with your
actions/results.


If these steps do not resolve your problem, please post back to this thread
with the details and any error messages.

Hope this helps

Jan :)
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