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Problem persists!!! Hey submix8c, thanks for your lengthy reply! But I need even more help.... I have tried all of the above stuff, including resetting the Windows settings as explained in the links you provided, through flipping the Confirm checkbox. I have also tried to mimic the Vista solution, just in case something wasn't explained right. All to no avail, it seems. .. Here is the problem presented again: I have an html file on my local computer. I links to an .mp3 file, also on my local computer. (So you see, no unsafe files, as of Microsofts list) and I get this dialog (except of course that it is an .mp3 file, not an executable as shown here.) http://img.microsoft.com/library/media/103...xp/iesecx08.gif Notice how there is no checkbox there which can be used to make this dialog go away. I want that dialog gone!!! Please help me.

Each time I try to download any kind of data file (.doc, .mp3 whatever) from my local computer, Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP presents me with a dialog box, called "File Download - Security Warning". It is asking whether to Save or Open the file directly, or Cancel the download. The checkbox "Always ask before opening this type of file" has disappeared. There seems to be no way to get rid of the dialog. The file type available through Folder Options | File Types | Advanced does not provide any way of changing this, only the checkbox "Confirm open after download", which obviously does not help. Oh, boy! I have tried looking into the post with "Turn off Open File - Security Warning" on this site, but that only seems to work for executables, and does not apply in my case, or maybe I'm doing something wrong. Can anybody help?