I would have used the "Repair" option for IE in Add/Remove, and then tried
to reestablish what few custom settings I had on the old clunker, because
that's all I know.
Anytime you can fix a Windows problem with a band-aid and a little first aid
cream you are ahead of the game, so glad it worked out.
Bob Howard wrote:
> Turns out the problem was in the HTML button definition. Using that
> same definition, I was able to download a text file. So there's
> something that IE6 is doing to stip the extension when it's ".exe" ...
>
> The particular HTML button definition is typically used to initiate
> processing on the **server** --- something that I'm not actually
> doing. But IE6 probably wants to protect the server from having an
> executable running there (these servers are typically at an ISP) so
> to protest against that, the extension is being stripped --- even
> though IE is downloading the file.
>
> When I corrected the HTML to use a different form of the button
> definition, all's working fine!
>
> thanks. bob h.
> "Roger Fink" <fink@manana.org> wrote in message
> news:%23Dk%23BCSgIHA.3780@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>
>>
>> Bob Howard wrote:
>>> "Roger Fink" <fink@manana.org> wrote in message
>>> news:uNvy0SLgIHA.2448@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bob Howard wrote:
>>>>> "Sid Elbow" <here@there.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:47d1c47a$0$24681$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
>>>>>> Bob Howard wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My daughter gave me her old W2K laptop, and I'm trying to
>>>>>>> download a program "xxxxxx.exe" from a web site. The file
>>>>>>> downloads OK, but without any file extension ... is just
>>>>>>> downloads as "xxxxxx" ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've poked around and cannot figure out what's wrong.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've tried the same download on both Win/XP and Win/Vista
>>>>>>> computers, and they work fine.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there some sort of option I need to set to have the ".exe"
>>>>>>> preserved??
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BTW, I also tried this with my antivirus software disabled, and
>>>>>>> it made no difference. I also checked my IE, and it's IE 6
>>>>>>> with no plugins.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tools > Folder Options > View
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Uncheck "Hide File Extensions for Known File Types"
>>>>>
>>>>> That was one of the first things I tried ... but the file has no
>>>>> extension, so this didn't help.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wasn't that I couldn't see it --- it just plain ain't there!
>>>>>
>>>>> I suspect this is some sort of system integrity thing so that .exe
>>>>> files couldn't be downloaded and do damage to the system.
>>>>>
>>>>> I turned off all my spyware and antivirus software, and the file
>>>>> is still received without an extension.
>>>>>
>>>>> bob
>>>>
>>>> Try renaming the file so that it contains <.exe> and see if it
>>>> opens.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I did rename it and it did open up.
>>>
>>> My problem is that this is not workable. I develop and distribute
>>> software and this really complicates matters for any clients who
>>> have W2K (assuming this is not just something wierd with this one
>>> computer).
>>>
>>> My clients download the software off my web site, and they are
>>> generally computer novices. The strange thing is that I have not
>>> run into this in either Vista, XP or Windows 98 --- only W2K.
>>>
>>> So, I want to make this VERY simple for my clients, and make it
>>> universal.
>>>
>>> bob
>>
>> I occasionally had that problem in Windows 98, although very rarely,
>> and that was one of two ways I got around it. The other was to use
>> Mozilla. My conclusion then was that the problem was with IE6, and
>> definitely not hardware or website related. You may want to try
>> repairing or reinstalling it (or cross-posting to the IE6 group, who
>> may have a different take on it).