Left Click Downloads

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March 6th, 2002, 09:28 AM
rwinegar

Left Click Downloads

I have two computers. One has Win98. The other has WinXP Home edition. Win 98 gives me two options on downloading a file - the good old right click save target as or left click and get option of opening or saving to disk. On XP machine I have same right click option. However, when I left click a download link it immediately begins to download to a temporary file without giving me the option of choosing a download location. Anyone else noticing this? How can I restore the normal left click function and choose a download location?

Thanks a lot.

Dell 8200 1.8G P4 512ram
March 7th, 2002, 07:44 AM
rwinegar

I figured this out last night. It appears to happen only with zip files. I left clicked a zip file and let it go to see where it went. It went to C:\temp. As soon as it was downloaded WinZip opened by itself. I clicked unzip and the file was automatically unzipped and sent to C:\unzipped and the temp file was purged. Win 98 never did this. This is a cool feature of WinXP.
March 7th, 2002, 08:02 AM
Limerick

Hi Rwinegar,

Left-click or right-click, I get the Save As box that allows me to choose where I want the file to be downloaded to. I actually prefer to be able to choose the destination folder in this manner, rather than have it automatically sent to the temp folder.

Limerick
March 7th, 2002, 09:30 AM
rwinegar

Limerick I agree with you and right click offers me this choice. But left click is cool in that it saves time.
March 7th, 2002, 09:43 AM
OLEerror

This is probably a new feature in WinZip 8.1. Windows XP itself does not do this.
March 7th, 2002, 10:02 AM
rwinegar

I am running winzip version 6.something.
March 7th, 2002, 10:33 AM
OLEerror

Huh, I don't remember Winzip 6 doing that. It may be a function that can be turned off, though.
March 7th, 2002, 11:22 AM
rwinegar

This version of winzip was installed on my XP machine from the same floppy that I used to install the program on my win 98 machine. Something makes them operate differently.
March 8th, 2002, 04:06 AM
warhawk

I kinda have the same problem.To download an mp3,if i right click,i use the save as and it works fine.But if i left click,it start downloading and playing the song in windows media.(My guess is it because of Quictime,since i can see the quictime thing in ie.)Any one seen this before.

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March 8th, 2002, 07:37 AM
rwinegar

Warhawk, you don't have a problem. Thats how streaming audio is supposed to work.