Internet explorer not prompting to save/open for some users

[Guest]

Hi
I have a windows 2003 terminal server where only a couple of users who log
in have this problem. When they go to their internal sharepoint website for
example and go into the page that displays their incoming faxes and single
left mouse click on a document to open it should pop up with a window
prompting to either save,open or cancel. Instead it just automaticly opens
the document.
I'm not sure if it is just the sharepoint site or a general problem with ie.
I went to microsofts website and downloaded windows defender as a test to see
if it would prompt to open or save which it did but this could be just
because the microsoft site is writen differently.

I have played around with the ie security settings where it says to prompt
when downloading a file and other similar options in their and folder options
with no luck.

Any help someone can provide would be great - thanks in advance

 

[Alan Edwards]

You set this for each file type, e.g. for .zip
Explorer-View-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:
Explorer-View-Folder Options
Explorer-Tools-Folder Options
Start-Settings-Folder Options
Start-Settings-Control Panel-Folder options.

....Alan

 

[Guest]

thanks for that - it helped me fix the problem but now I'm confused.
windows server 2003 seems to have "windows picture and fax viewer" as the
set tif file program when first built but then has a button in the file types
area to "restore" which sets it to the default "ms office document imaging".
If you don't set it to the default "ms office document imaging", then it
doesn't give you the advanced button to set "confirm open after download".

Is there a way to have "windows picture and fax viewer" and set it to
confirm after download?

And why doesn't server 2003 have "ms office document imaging" as its set
viewer if it's ment to be the default or does something like ms office being
installed on the server change it's default (I haven't checked that yet
because all the terminal server's I look after have office)?

And why would it suddenly stop prompting out of the blue without any changes
being made to the server...?

thanks again

Matt

 

[Alan Edwards]

I cannot answer your questions on Windows Server 2003. I have never
seen it and I doubt if I ever will. Sorry, but you may have to ask in
a more relevant group, as it is not an IE6 problem.

....Alan