I'm a little confused here, sorry. Just what exactly do you want to 
know? From what I understand, a .brf is a Blazie note taker file. You 
say she went to the file name box, then tabbed to see what folder her 
file was going into. When a save dialog box comes up, the file to be 
saved will be highlighted in the file name box. If you click on a file 
in the folder then the file name will change to that file name. So if 
she was saving file.txt and that file name was highlighted in the file 
name box but then she tabbed or clicked on another file then that file 
name - say file.brf - will appear in the file name box. Now, if she 
didn't accidentally do this then the file she selected for download 
would have to have been a .brf file. There is no option to stop the 
highlighted file from changing. All you need do is once you select a 
file for download, click once in the filename box. This will set the 
name of the file to the one selected for download.

I hope this is what you meant.

Ray Campbell wrote:

>Hello:
>
>I received a call this morning from someone who is using Windows XP and
>Window-Eyes.  She tried downloading something from Wikipedia.  When she
>got to the file name box where she could choose to accept or change the
>downloaded file name, then tabbed to see what folder her file would be
>going in too, she tabbed back to the file name box and noticed that XP
>had put a file extension of .brf on the file name, even though this was
>supposed to be a text file.  She had to re-name the file something else
>to get it to stop doing that as she has a file with the same name and
>the .brf extension already on her computer.
>
>Is this some kind of a Windows XP option and if so, where can one go to
>turn it off?  She said this happens only in Internet Explorer.  I went
>through Internet Options and couldn't find any option that looked like
>it did something like this.  I also looked through File and Folder
>options and didn't find anything obvious.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help,
>
>
>Ray Campbell, HelpDesk Technician
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