Need to activate prompt to open/save

[Guest]

Specifically, I have a list of links that lead directly to .wav files. When
I was using Office 2K, I would paste a link, which looks like this:

http://www.X.com/sounds/Y.wav

into the address field at the top of IE, and click Enter (or Go).
Immediately I'd be prompted to either open or download. I want these files
to download always -- I almost never open them directly. (This is not an ftp
site, so this is always how I get files from this location.)

Now, this happens:

1. I paste the link in address field, hit Enter.
2. I can see at the bottom of the browser that the file is downloading.
3. It opens with Quicktime, with no prompt to save to file. (I've tried
changing the file association for .wav files to another program, such as
Winamp, but it makes no difference. It just opens with Winamp instead.)

I've poked around in here and have seen a couple of posts about problems
that looked exactly like mine, and have changed settings accordingly, but
nothing's working.

What do I do?

Thanks so much,

--Kate

 

[Guest]

You know what? Nevermind. I am now looking at some MS info on their various
crazya**ed, super-complicated (and I'm no computer idiot, either -- I earn my
living working on PCa all day) "support" pages and I'm seeing stuff that
suggests I might have to edit my registry. I'm so not down with that. I
just need to download some files; I don't want to have to rewrite registry
code.

I just downloaded & installed Firefox, adjusted the download settings (all,
by the way, from within that browser itself -- there was no tooling around in
XP Explorer and tweaking security/file type settings in there), saved 3 or 4
of the files I need to grab, and came back here to tell you about it -- all
of this took approximately 5 minutes.

I will not be surprised if MS administrator deletes this posting, but all
you guys who are having trouble with the IE 6 "save or download" prompt
having disappeared, and the "confirm download" checkbox does not solve your
problem -- save yourself some sweat and just go grab Firefox. Normally I
make fun of my Mac-devoted friends, but this time they were right.

Love,

Kate