Alan, try a right-click on the link instead of a left-click. A right-click 
should bring up a pop-up menu which should include the option to save the 
file ("Save Target As....") to your PC's drive instead of opening (i.e. 
playing) it.

Good luck -  = Cheeta Gauba




At 01:05 PM 2/18/2006 -0500, Alan Galucki wrote:
>How does one save a web based video to the hard drive? Here's the situation.
>  A video is out there, at www.zzzzz.com/video.wmv (not the real 
> address).  The web address as entered into Firefox will cause the video 
> to play in the viewer on my laptop, (Windows Media Player 10). It is 
> viewable with no problem. However, I'd like to save it for personal 
> reasons and can't find a way to do it. Saving the file thru the Firefox 
> file-save method saves the address without the video. Going thru the 
> Media Player, it doesn't seem to be anywhere accessable on the drive 
> except as a link in the temp internet files folder. How can this video be 
> retained?    Thanks in advance!
>
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