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Chapter Nine: Exploring the Internet
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Other than the slight risk of contracting a virus (if you don’t have virus protection software
installed), the only other downside of downloading files off the Internet is how long it can
take—especially if you’re downloading a huge file over a 33.6 modem connection to the
Internet!
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to download files and images from the Internet and save them
to your hard disk. When you come across a picture or image on the Internet that you really
like, here’s how you can permanently save it to your computer’s hard drive:
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Right-click the image you want to save and select Save Picture As from
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Windows asks where you want to save the image by presenting you with the Save As
dialog box, as shown in Figure 9-18.
Navigate to the drive and folder where you want to save the image, give
the image a different name (if you want), and click OK.
Windows saves the image to the specified drive and folder.
The procedure for downloading and saving programs and other files from the Internet
is almost the same as downloading and saving an image. Here’s how to do it:
Find the file you want to download, right-click it and select Save Target
As from the shortcut menu.
You can usually also simply click a file you want to download, but doing this will
sometimes open the file in Internet Explorer instead of saving it to your computer. As
with images, you have to specify where you want to save the file.
Navigate to the drive and folder where you want to save the file, give the
file a different name if you want, and click OK.
Windows will download the file and save it to the drive and folder you specified. It
may take several minutes or several hours to download the file, depending on the file’s
size and how fast your connection to the Internet is. Windows displays a dialog box
that shows the progress of the download, as shown in Figure 9-19.
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NOTE: Make sure you remember where you save your downloaded files! Many
people download software without thinking about where they’re saving it,
only to be unable to find the file once it’s finished downloading. It makes
sense to create and use a folder called “Downloads” or something similar
when you can save your downloaded files.
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One more note about downloading files and programs off the Internet: a large percent of the
programs you can download off the Internet are stored in ZIP files. ZIP files package
programs and files together and make them must easier to download.
ZIP files do two things:
Compress Information: Instead of downloading a 2 MB file, you can download a
1 MB file in half the time.
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Store multiple files together in a single ZIP file: Instead of downloading 20 or so
files that a program requires to run, you only have to download a single ZIP file.
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Once you have downloaded a ZIP file, Microsoft Windows XP should unzip it for you. If it
doesn’t, there is another program that will unzip files called WinZIP. You can find and
download the WinZIP program at www.winzip.com.
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Quick Reference
To Save an Image on a
Web Page to Disk:
1. Right-click the image you
want to save and select
Save Picture As from the
shortcut menu.
2. Navigate to the drive and
folder where you want to
save the image, give the
image a different name if
you want, and click OK.
To Download a File:
1. Right-click the file you
want to download, select
Save Target As from the
shortcut menu.
2. Navigate to the drive and
folder when you want to
save the file, give the file
a different name if you
want, and click OK.
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