From: Ellen K. 

OK, based on Mike N's and your responses, it seems the trick would be not
to use IE to open attachments.  Kind of a PITA even for folks like us, no
way Joe Average is gonna open every attachment with Notepad first to see
what it really is.

On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 19:05:05 -0500, "Geo" 
wrote in message :

>In your example explorer will use the program associated with txt files.
>However if you download a jpg and change the extension to htm, IE will open
>it like a jpg. Likewise if you download a wmf and change the extension to
>htm, IE will open it as a wmf.
>
>Geo.
>
>"Ellen K."  wrote in message
>news:t6uir19dtu5bmgi665q6b6ecoenhm5avu4{at}4ax.com...
>> If on downloading an attachment the user saves it as a text file (.txt),
>> will the machine see it as a text file or as what it started out as?
>
>
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