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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: Dominic on August 28, 2003, 23:50

Title: Downloadin Probs
Post by: Dominic on August 28, 2003, 23:50

When i click a link i don't get the save as option, it automatically opens, like shown on pic, and then the dl fails.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/sof2matrix/Problem.JPG

Title: Re:Downloadin Probs
Post by: Sandra on August 28, 2003, 23:58

Hi Dominic,welcome aboard.
Is it all downloads or just that messenger one as I think messenger wants to open from the download and is recommended not to save to disk,maybe in the MSN Messenger 6 version its set to do it automatically  ???

Title: Re:Downloadin Probs
Post by: Dominic on August 29, 2003, 00:50

It's for all dl's.

Title: Re:Downloadin Probs
Post by: Sandra on August 29, 2003, 01:07

Which OS are you on,I have had a look through the options in mine(XP Pro) and cant see anything for auto open in the settings  ???

Title: Re:Downloadin Probs
Post by: Dominic on August 29, 2003, 01:12

Xp Pro.

Title: Re:Downloadin Probs
Post by: Simon on August 29, 2003, 09:07

Hi Dominic,

If you right click the link, can you not 'Save Target As...'?   :-\

Not exactly an answer to the problem, but alternatively, you could try a third party download manager, such as Star Downloader (http://www.stardownloader.com/).  This is a free program, which aims to increase your download speeds by up to 400%, but splitting the files into smaller sections, and downloading the parts simultaneously.  Might do what you want.

Title: Re:Downloadin Probs
Post by: Dominic on August 29, 2003, 15:56

When i right click. save target as, i get the same thing :/

Title: Re:Downloadin Probs
Post by: Dominic on August 29, 2003, 16:07

Also star dl program don't help cuz i can't dl it :/

Title: Re:Downloadin Probs
Post by: Sandra on August 29, 2003, 16:15

I spent ages last night looking for a solution to it Dominic but I only came across it being mentioned once but it required joining an IT pro forum which involved cash as a joining fee to get the answer  :(
Has it only recently happened ?
If so have you installed or unistalled any programs or hardware recently which has somehow caused it ?
Have you tried System Restore if this is the case ?

Title: Re:Downloadin Probs
Post by: Adept on August 29, 2003, 16:52

Hi Dominic :welcome:

I think your problem may have someting to do with this Microsoft Knowledgebase article (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822232).

Title: Re:Downloadin Probs
Post by: Sandra on August 29, 2003, 16:56

I looked at that a couple of times last night Adept but decided that as that comes up after the download is being saved to where you tell it to save to that it wasnt that one.
I hope I am wrong for Dominics sake   ???

Title: Re:Downloadin Probs
Post by: Dominic on August 30, 2003, 19:20

Im gonna do a system restore later on, this ain't the first time it's happened :/