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I need to save a download to travel drive without opening it. How?

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My lap top has a virus I am trying to eliminate. To do so, I have to download a registry fix on a clean computer and transfer it to my infected laptop. But I don't want the reg fix on the clean computer, so I don't want to open the download, I just want it on the travel drive.

My lap top has a virus I am trying to eliminate. To do so, I have to download a registry fix on a clean computer and transfer it to my infected laptop. But I don't want the reg fix on the clean computer, so I don't want to open the download, I just want it on the travel drive.

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I assume that you are referring to the download manager window in your above post and not to a link on the page where you downloaded the file from like we assumed in our responses.

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Can you right-click on the registry file link and choose "Save File As..." and browse to your travel drive?

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When Firefox brings up the dialog box asking to save or open, click save and browse to the travel drive to save it there.

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If the file is send as text/plain then Firefox will open it as a text file in a tab.

You can force a download if you press the Alt key and left-click a link.

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Thanks for the suggestion, my right click doesn't bring up a save option with the downloads, which is the problem.

But I figured it out. Right click offers the option of opening the file or opening the file folder, which when I do the second, I can save the file where I want! Yay!

But thanks for taking the time to help.

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I assume that you are referring to the download manager window in your above post and not to a link on the page where you downloaded the file from like we assumed in our responses.

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Yes, Cor-el. I wasn't very clear about that. From the download window there is no save function. But if I open the folder instead of the file, I can.

Thanks

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File entries that you see in the Download manager are files that you've already downloaded and saved to a folder on your desktop. You can't save them a second time or move them to a different location unless you would download the file a second time (right-click: Copy Download Link). So opening the containing folder like you did is the correct way to proceed in this case.