PC Equivalent of Preferences

[Macette]

To all you PC-using Mac people out there...

A friend sent me the following email:

"Can you please tell me why everytime I download a file it is doing it as a power point file?

It is driving me nuts.

KM"

Only problem is, I haven't used a PC for years, and have no idea how to help him (I'm guessing it's something to do with MIME-types or something?)

Anyway, I want to tell him to delete his Internet Explorer preferences, but don't know what the lingo is for PC-Users. Also, if I tell him to do the equivalent of deleting his preferences, what else is it going to do? Will it screw up his bookmarks?

I was thinking of going onto a PC forum to ask this question, but I'm so out of my depth in that world that I thought I'd try here first.

[janey]

http://support.microsoft.com/ is always useful.
tell your friend to check out microsoft knowledge base article number 306551: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306551
btw, MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions so i doubt it has anything to do with that.

[sparkleytone]

they should just be able to save the file however it wants to save. just put it on the desktop or whatever. hold shift and right click the file. choose 'open with...' and then choose the program its supposed to open with. ahh the joys of a filesystem without metadata and an OS that fakes it.