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2012-12-28, 11:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Internet Explorer 8 - how to turn off the blasted download prompt
Hey all, looks like it's time for me to pick the INT 18 brains of the forum here for one of my occasional newbie tech questions.
I was wondering if there's some way to turn off the download prompt in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) on Windows 7? So that I don't get a prompt every time asking "Save or Run", in effect, but so that it just goes straight to the "save" window.
That prompt is annoying when you have about 200 small files to download for a job you're doing.
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks all!
Edit: the file extensions on my downloads are all .docx, if that makes any difference. (I know this is going to turn out to be something embarrassingly easy.)Last edited by Bulldog Psion; 2012-12-28 at 11:39 AM.
Spoiler
So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2012-12-28, 12:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Internet Explorer 8 - how to turn off the blasted download prompt
After some checking, what you're asking doesn't seem possible in IE without a macro or addon of some sort.
There are a number of download managers that you can use (I used to use Getright) that will intercept the click and automatically download any link you click on.
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2012-12-28, 12:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Internet Explorer 8 - how to turn off the blasted download prompt
I don't know how to help you with IE.
I can tell you that you would be better off with another browser, however. Chrome skips all that, and puts downloads at the bottom of your screen where you can click them to run.
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2012-12-28, 12:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Internet Explorer 8 - how to turn off the blasted download prompt
Thanks guys, I appreciate the help!
Spoiler
So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2012-12-28, 09:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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