Hello again,
My original posting of 5/6/2008 seems to have been closed off, but my issue
has not been resolved, so I am trying once again. Here is the complete
discussion thread so far:
I am having a problem with the File Download prompt in IE 7 and I need your
help. On our Intranet home page we have a series of links that download MS
Word files from one of our network drives. When we click on one of these
links, we get the File Download dialog box which asks "Do you want to open or
save this file?". It also has a checkbox that says "Do not show me this
message again." If we check the checkbox, the dialog box never displays
again, and for us, that's a good thing.
The twist is that we also have an application on the Intranet (on a
different server box from the home page mentioned above) that also opens MS
Word documents. When this application opens a document, the File Download
prompt is displayed, but WITHOUT the "Do not show me this message again."
checkbox, so there's no opportunity for us to check the checkbox to get rid
of the prompt.
Is there any way for us to do this? Both servers mentioned above are
running Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6.0. The Intranet Home page is written
in ASP and the other application is ASP.NET. We are using IE 7.0.
Any light you can shed on this would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Chris Severin
"Alan Edwards" wrote:
> You set this for each file type, e.g. for .zip
> Windows Explorer-Tools-Folder Options-File Types
> Find the .zip association (may be WinZip File)
> Edit, (or click Advanced on ME or XP) and check the "Confirm open
> after download" box
>
> The path to Folder Options may vary according to your operating
> system. It may be:
> Windows Explorer-View-Folder Options
> Windows Explorer-Tools-Folder Options
> Start-Settings-Folder Options
> Start-Settings-Control Panel-Folder options.
>
> ....Alan
> --
> Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
> http://dts-l.com/index.htm
>
>
Thanks for getting back to me Alan.
I followed your instructions and checked the "Confirm open after download"
box for .doc files. As expected, I now see the File Download prompt again
whenever I click on a link that opens a Word document file.
However, that's not the problem. The problem is the fact that the File
Download prompt is different between two different Intranet websites. On one
website, the File Download prompt contains a checkbox labelled "Always ask
before opening this type of file" (I think I mistakenly called it "Do not
show me this message again." ) . On the other Intranet website the File
Download prompt doesn't have the checkbox.
Why are there two different types of File Download prompt?
If I receive the File Download prompt that contains the checkbox and I click
on it to uncheck it, then I do not receive the File Download prompt when I
click on subsequent links to open other documents.
However, if I am on the other website and I receive the File Download prompt
that doesn't contain the "Always ask before opening this type of file"
checkbox, obviously there is nothing for me to uncheck, so there doesn't seem
to be any way to stop the File Download prompt from appearing when opening
subsequent documents.
I tried going back into Start-Settings-Control Panel-Folder options and
unchecking the "Confirm open after download" box for .doc files and what this
did was stop the appearance of the File Download prompt that contains the
"Always ask before opening this type of file" checkbox. The other File
Download prompt (the one without the "Always ask before opening this type of
file" checkbox) still appears.
What I want is for the File Download prompt not to appear on any of our
Intranet websites.
Thanks again for your help.
C.
"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:
> >
> > I tried going back into Start-Settings-Control Panel-Folder options and
> > unchecking the "Confirm open after download" box for .doc files and what
> > this
> > did was stop the appearance of the File Download prompt that contains the
> > "Always ask before opening this type of file" checkbox. The other File
> > Download prompt (the one without the "Always ask before opening this type
> > of
> > file" checkbox) still appears.
> >
> > What I want is for the File Download prompt not to appear on any of our
> > Intranet websites.
>
>
> Are they perhaps two different filetypes, DOC & DOCX?
>
> --
> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
> Reply in Newsgroup, not by email.
>
>
>
No, in both cases, they are .DOC files. The only difference between the two
sites is that the site that displays the File Download prompt WITH the
"Always ask before opening this type of file" checkbox opens .DOC directly
whereas the other site runs a .DOT template document to produce a .DOC file.
Knowing this, I went into Start-Settings-Control Panel-Folder Optiions and
unchecked the "Confirm open after download" box for both .DOC and .DOT
filetypes, but I still see File Download prompt WITHOUT the "Always ask
before opening this type of file" checkbox.
Thanks for all your help.
C.