Vista Annoyance - Open/Save As Choices For File Downloads
Finally - after months of occasional efforts to find a solution (poor searching maybe), and seeing "close but no cigar" workarounds for general file association issues in Vista, I've deduced the answer to a problem that's been bugging me for months.
At some point, I was no longer presented with the option to Open or Save a .zip file from a link on a web page. I really don't like .zip files being directly opened in WinZip, because it will be saved to your %temp% directory and then you have to copy the archive to where you actually want to save it. Plus, the continuous insertion of [1] after the file name drives me mad, never mind the stupid bug/feature in WinZip that prevents me from moving the archiving and forces me to copy it - leaving junk behind. But I digress from my rant…
The setting that remembers your Open/Save choice is in this key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WinZip\EditFlags
These are the REG_BINARY value:
00 00 01 00 = Open
00 00 00 00 = Save As
Easy! The action for other file types can be similarly changed. With Word 2007 docs for example, look in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.12\EditFlags.
But remember how much easier this was to change in Windows XP? <sigh>