How to change the default download directory for Internet Explorer
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If you would like to change the default download target for Internet Explorer from ‘Desktop’ to some other location on your system, the following quick registry change will do it.
Click on Start—>Run type regedit click ok
Navigate the following key from left pane
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
Now you should see Download Directory key from right pane
Edit the ‘download directory’ value to the full path of the directory you wish to use click ok
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Hmm? I looked at the location specified by the registry and it didn’t have what I had just, supposedly downloaded. The registry did have an entry which I thought more likely corresponded to “MRU” data.
I’ll look elsewhere for a solution to my problem.
Thanks – Art
pues ya hice lo que dicen en la parte de arriba y nada mas no logro direccionar las descargas automaticamente. Auxilio
Doesn’t work for me either…so easy in FF, wonder why IE is so much difficult!
This worked great for me. It was set to a non-existing location but did not give me a prompt to select the download destination. After following these instructions to change the location, it did pop-up and ask where I wanted to save the download or accept the default location. But I find it incredible that you have to go to the registry to change the default. Firefox lets you see it from the tools menu and change it from Tools > Options.
This didn’t work for me either. I went to Internet Explorer in Regedit, but it was a folder that expanded to more folders with other strings.
Another in the plethora of reasons to just delete ie from your computer and never look back.
I don’t see “Run” in the Start menu. Is this the correct procedure for opening RegEdit in Windows 7? I know how to open RegEdit in My Computer > Program Files of Windows XP, but where is “My Computer” in Windows 7? I don’t see that in the Start menu either.