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From: "Caroline Gurney" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Download of Compressed (ZIP) files
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:05:13 -0000
References: <5.2.0.9.2.20021202090055.02f20e70@pop3.norton.antivirus> <5.2.0.9.2.20021202155437.02f18458@pop3.norton.antivirus>


Lee Hoffman wrote:

> A better option would be to add the two file types (SQZ and CSC) to the
> File Associations list in your Windows. The easy way is to open Windows
> Explorer or My Computer and select Tools=>Folder Options to display the
> Folder Options window. Click on the File Type tab. Then for each desired
> file type, click on the New button and enter the desired file type (SQZ,
> CSC, CFG, or whatever). Following this, highlight the entry you just
added
> and click on the Advanced button. In the field at the top (will have some
> generic entry it it, like FT0000n), change that entry to a short
> description of the file type. For example, TMG Backup, TMG Custom Source
> Categories, TMG Configuration Backup, or whatever. When finished click on
> the OK button.
>
> Any downloads of those files will be saved with that file extension and
not
> the ZIP extension.

Lee,

Thank you. I added the 3 file extensions to my list, entered the
descriptions you suggest in the "Description of Type" field, checked the box
to have the extension always shown & gave them the TMG inkwell icon as a
visual aid. I think you must be running a different version of Windows from
me as I have no Advanced button. However, it doesn't seem to matter as I can
now download these file types using _either_ the "WinZip" _or_ the "All
Files" option & in _neither_ case is the ZIP extension added. So you have
solved the problem.

I am in fact back where I was some months ago, when I did not have this
problem, & I suspect that something had changed in my Windows settings after
applying Windows & IE6 updates. IE6 SP1 has caused me all sorts of problems
& this is probably yet another one.

Anyway, many thanks once again for supplying the solution.

Caroline Gurney
Portsmouth, UK




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