Overtherailing.

Registry tweak to keep Internet Explorer’s download dialog boxes open

While you can just as easily accomplish this by downloading a large file, unchecking the “Close this dialog box when download completes” and cancelling the download, once in a blue moon it might be useful to accomplish it programmatically. Here’s a .reg to accomplish that.

(I’m unsure if this can be applied to HKLM or not.)

Info on the “reg.exe” command line utility here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732643(WS.10).aspx

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
;
; Setting this value to "Yes" ensures that IE's download window remains open.
;
; This value is normally set by checking ("no") or unchecking ("yes") the
; "Close this dialog box when download completes" checkbox.
;
"NotifyDownloadComplete"="yes"