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re: How do you get internet exploere to ASK before playing Media on a webpage?
Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 12:38 pm
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Posted by Jeff (957 messages posted)


Start > Settings > Control Panel > Internet Options 

Click Advanced tab, scroll down to multimedia section, disable "play video in web 
pages."

Let me know if this doesn't work.

Jeff





On Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 12:12 pm, Legion5 wrote:
>I run windows XP on a very slow computer, and it has no isses playing Media files,
>but certain webpages I visit seem to saturate themselves with Quicktime or Windows
>Media Player files.
>
>I want to be able to stop Internet explorer from playing these, How do I do it? A
>simple enable, disable system. OR have it ask before it does it, because it makes
>loading the webpages a MILLION times slower, because it has to load up the windows
>media player program to play my file. Which takes a while on this comp.



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How do you get internet exploere to ASK before playing Media on a webpage? (Legion5: Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 12:12 pm)

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-How do you get internet exploere to ASK before playing Media on a webpage? (Legion5: Sat, Oct 22, 2005, 12:12 pm)
*re: How do you get internet exploere to ASK before playing Media on a webpage? (Jeff: Sat, Oct 22, 2005, 12:38 pm)
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