Stupid Apple products

[jeriendhal]

Would somebody please tell me why I can't seem to download Quicktime for my machine at home? I click on the download button and my computer keeps asking me if I want to open the damned thing up as a Word file.

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[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

Download button on the website, or the Quicktime Installer?

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[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Download button. It just sits there when it say "getting ready to download, click HERE if nothing happens." And when I click THERE I get the message asking if I want to open it as a Word doc.

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[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

and if you just mouseover the link, does it have a file extension on the end of whatever it points to? Try renaming whatever downloads to .exe, maybe your word associations are corrupt.

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[sraun]

Can you right-click THERE and select "Save As"? And get it to save a .EXE file?

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[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I can, but it doesn't seem to do any good. If I save it, then click on it later, it drags me to some Microsoft diagnositic page in the Internet.

Hmm, one thing I have seen is that the file is tagged exe.php Does that mean anything in particular?

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[sraun]

Ouch!

I hate those download links! They aren't serving up the link - they're serving a pointer to an active page that serves the link. I.e., there's this (IMAO, totally unnecessary, and actively obnoxious) extra level of redirection in their download process.

Hmm, I wonder ...

Mrfl, mrfl - they've done away with the ftp site they used to have, and the only Windows Installer I could find is one of those nifty little 'download me, and then I'll find out what you need' things.

I believe something is screwed up with the .PHP association on your system - the handler should be Internet Explorer, and has apparently been set to Word. If you want to play with File Associations, I could give you some hints on what to look for.

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[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I'll have a looksee when I get home this evening. Thanks for all your help so far!

[jvowles.livejournal.com]

Um....sounds like it's *windows* that can't figure out what to do with a perfectly normal file....

I've installed Quicktime on probably a dozen PCs without ever running into that problem. Are you sure you've selected a Windows version?

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[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Yep. I'm running Windows XP at home, and that's what I ask to download. [shrug] I guess if I want to watch the Sky Captain trailer with sound, I'll just have t odo it at your place on Friday.