If nLite is still being developed... stupid Vistrash...

nLite's tweaks could use a setting under "Internet Explorer" for the "Automatic prompting for ActiveX" and "Automatic prompting for file downloads" options (under security options). They're really options that should have never made it into Internet Explorer to begin with... that "information bar" is just a nuisance, and those two options make IE just present the usual confirmation window without needing to reload the page.

So just requesting a new tweak in nLite's already huge database

That activex situation you describe i dont recognize, i think nlite already has tweak for that. And i think nlite has the other one too, tho names of what you describe them are not the same as names of that in nlite.

Nah, I'm pretty aware of them. Actually, I thought up this topic while looking for the option and being annoyed of having to adjust this every time.

It's not a major annoyance since I only use IE to download Firefox (huh, huh, huh)... but downloading drivers BEFORE installing Firefox is a bit of a pain with all the "this site wants to download a file, click here to allow it to prompt you to download the file" crap.

I was going to say "and here is what you need to change to get this", but... ****, Regmon crapped out all sorts of junk when I changed that setting!! I have no idea what it really is. There seems to be a part of the registry that defines the entire "security settings" window, and I can't tell if the values there are merely cosmetic or if they actually affect the settings, but "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\SO\DOWNLOAD\FILEDOWNLOAD\ALLOW\CheckedValue" seems to hold a possible value. Nothing else really seems to have gotten changed. I have no idea how those settings work...

My apologies for potentially hijacking your thread, however are you referring to this popup?



I have removed IE and IEcore, so this popup usually appears when software attempts to download webpages into a window (via ActiveX?), such as the browser built into SoulSeek, SopCast, and in the Media Librarty of Winamp.

I would really like to know if it is possible to disable this popup using the registry - or perhaps there is an nLite tweak that I have overlooked?

Cheers,
James
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jmbattle: This is more hands on. Here we know it is a php filetype, so should be doable quickly, wo much thought. I'd recommend getting DefaultBrowser program, you're going to love it, and use that to properly set your internet browser of choice. Once you have done that, you could look into the php filetype, if any issues still persists.

No, no, absolutely not. That is the window I actually wish to get instead of the annoying "information bar" that you get when a website starts a download via a redirect instead of a click ("please wait while we begin your download, if it does not start, click here" kind of thing). Instead of presenting the "what do you want to do with this" box, it puts up that annoying bar, so you have to click it and say "download file", which for some god-forsaken reason causes Internet Explorer to reload the page (WHY?!), and present the download box. This behavior is _HIGHLY_ annoying, and something I always disable with the "automatic prompting" tweak.

The same thing happens for ActiveX downloads, like Java and Flash Player, when they're being installed. Instead of just popping up the "install/cancel" box, it pops up that darn bar, then reloads the page, then finally pops up the box. "Automatic prompting for ActiveX installation" (or something like that) fixes that. The way it should be.

Unfortunately, installation of IE7 over IE6 screws up that setting, so you have to do it again if you set it with IE6. But it still works the same.

Okay now that i'm blessed with Epic Win, i reckon i'm screwed, lol.

Any ideas on this?

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