Clarification of Question by
alvarado-ga
on
16 Jun 2006 15:08 PDT
A friend of mine found the answer for me. It's on this Microsoft
Support page: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=829072
It has you change/create some registry keys and if that doesn't work
(which it didn't for me) it lists some alternate methods. The
alternate method that did the trick for me was this:
Method 1: Turn off the "Confirm open after download" option for the
file type that you are trying to open
To do this, follow these steps:
1. Double-click My Computer.
2. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
3. On the File Types tab, select the appropriate file extension (for
example, WMV) in the Registered File Types box, then click the
Advanced button.
4. Click to clear the Confirm open after download check box, then
click the OK button.
5. Click the Close button on the Folder Options dialog box.
I had some trouble doing this at first because the "Advance" button
was not there! I figured out the cause after a while: At some point I
had installed WinAmp and set it as the default player for .WAV and
later changed the player in the Folder Type options back to Windows
Media Player, which causes the "Advanced" button to change to a
"Restore" button with a message to click Restore to make WinAmp the
player again! I clicked "Restore", making WinAmp the player for WAV
again, then the ?Advanced? button appeared where the ?Restore? button
had been and I then did the procedure above. That eliminated the
Security pop-up. Yay! But the WinAmp player comes up whenever I click
on the WAV links.
Since I remembered it not bringing up the player before I applied all
the service packs and upgrades and before I got WinAmp, I thought I?d
try putting it back to the Windows Media Player. So I ran WinAmp,
went to options and removed WAV from its list of files for which it is
the default player. Then I went back to the folder options as in the
instructions above. Set WAV files to use Windows Media Player and
this time the ?Advanced? button was there instead of ?Restore?. So I
then repeated the procedure above but as it turned out, it already had
the ?Confirm open after download? checkbox cleared. I guess that?s a
property of the file type and not the player. So I left it at that.
I clicked Apply to confirm my change to Windows Media Player for WAV
files. Then I tried my hyperlink in Excel again and lo and behold it
played the audio with no Security pop-op and without bringing up the
media player! Hooray! That is exactly what I wanted. I hope this
helps someone else.
