IE 6 - How to launch app. to view local file instead of IE viewer 1

[daved25]

I have a web site that has a kink to a local file - say MS Word. When I select this link on my XP machine IE6 displays the Word file from within the browser window. If I do the same thing on my Win 2000 machine (IE6 as well) it will launch the Word application and open the file. For me, I like the application launched...

How to I get Win XP to launch the application rather than display the file in the IE window?

 

[browolf]

are the same versions of office on both machines? ===============
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[daved25]

To answer the reply and to be more clear, yes, it's the same version of MS Office

 

[smah]

This has come up before and I'm not sure there's a solution. Search the MS office forum for 'Internet Explorer' and search the Browser Issues forum for 'Word or Excel'. I know there's something.

 

[smah]

Here's a couple of them:

thread68-451476
thread608-177012

 

[daved25]

Thanks for the help everyone. The Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 162059 that someone pointed me to did exactly what I needed.