From: Herb Tyson [MVP] on
Here, it saves to the last location where I saved. Using Windows 7. When I
start a download of Office Ultimate, it goes to that location.

Oh, well.

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"Steve Rindsberg" <abuse(a)localhost.com> wrote in message
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> In article <eQNytfNhKHA.4872(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Herb Tyson [MVP]
> wrote:
>> Open any web site that contains graphics. Right-click on any picture, and
>> choose Save Target As. Do not click Save. Instead, note the proposed
>> location--there's an excellent chance that this is where the downloaded
>> Office was placed.
>
> No joy.
>
> When you save a picture, it wants to put the saved file in My Pictures.
>
> And my earlier suggestion's equally useful.
>
> And I just checked any old download link; that defaults to saving to some
> apparently arbitrary directory (last place a file was saved to? current
> directory? who knows!)
>
>
>
From: Steve Rindsberg on
In article <ezen92bhKHA.1536(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>, Herb Tyson [MVP] wrote:
> Here, it saves to the last location where I saved. Using Windows 7. When I
> start a download of Office Ultimate, it goes to that location.
>
> Oh, well.

Along those lines ... yep.

Ah, wait. It'll remember the last-used save location during the current
session but once you quit MSIE and restart, it'll go back to its defaults.