Hi I have a problem where when i click on a link to a TIFF file, Internet Explorer tries to open it in a window, and displays the unknown file type icon (the little circle square traingle thing) in the top left corner. But if i download the file and open it, it will open in Microsoft Office Imaging. How can i stop Internet explorer from trying to open the file itself and just bring up the Open or Save dialogue box? And so that when i click open it will open with imaging? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me Andrew Ames

Well, I hope I understand correctly what you are asking. TIFF (Tagged Image Format File) is a graphics image file (obviously). IE/the internet deal only in JPEG and GIF image files-those are the only ones recognized. Therefore IE will not open a TIFF file, you must use a graphics viewer to do that. I am guessing that if you Right click on your target file, the menu you desire will appear, and click on Save Image As.. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime; Then industry pollutes the water and kills all the fish.

Hi Thanks for the reply. i know that TIFFs will not open in IE but for some reason IE is trying to open it in a browser window and i would like to know how to stop it from doing that. i know i can download the file and double click it and it will open using my imaging software, but i want to be able to click the link to the TIFF and have it either open in the imaging software, or just give me a dialogue box asking to save or open. If i select open i imagine it will open in the imaging software not IE, at least i hope it does Andrew Ames

Right click the tiff, open with, choose program. Select the program you want and check always use this program for this kind of file.

I'm talking about IE not windows explorer. you cannot right click and choose open with in a browser. I have 2 computers. when clicking on a link to a tiff with the 1st computer it pops up and says "save or open?" when i click open it opens in Microsoft Document Imaging, save obviously saves the file to my computer. The 2nd computer is different. when i click the link to the TIFF, IE automatically tries to open it. it doesnt ask what i want to do with the file, it just tries to open it in the browser window, which obviously it cant. Andrew Ames