Hi,

I have recently had to re-build my machine because of a bad virus, and
being sick of those sypwares, adwares, etc... I created a very
restricted user account under xp which I use to access the internet. I
have basically restricted write access to the registry and to all
directories except the user's folder.

Now everything is good and working like a charm. The only thing not
working is downloads from non-html urls. E.g. Pdf's, doc's even bmp's
!!! as soon as you have a url not ending in .asp, .html, .jsp etc... I
get a security warning message saying: Do you want to save or open this
file. Type Adobe Acrobat Control for ActiveX (well that's for .pdf
files). When I push save, I get the file download dialog which just
hangs there while getting file information. Then after a while I get an
error message saying Internet Explorer was not able to open this
internet site.

Now if I opened the link using a normal user account, it works fine.
Even if I have a pdf locally, and create a link to it from a html file,
that's fine too with my restricted account...

Any idea why? is there some registry keys I can modify to get around
this?