I have tracked down the offending program. i use AVX for anti virus. AVX has a download monitor. When this feature is turned on, in causes Windows to recreate the Extention key. When I turn this feature off and delete the "extention" folder, downloads work fine.
Ben
To Whitemtmntn
I was directed to your post by Belfield as I have been experiencing the exact problem ( (i.e. IE6 will not download .exe files.) Unfortunately your posted solution of deleting the “Extension” key has not worked for me. After I delete this folder, it is recreated by Windows...
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