Windows XP – Remove File/Folder Link After Using ‘Save As’ Then ‘Web Page, Complete’

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When you right-click save-as a web page in FF, the page is saved along with a folder containing any associated media that page needs (images, js, etc).

My problem is that I want to reorganise the associated media folder, but wherever I move this folder, the saved .html file is moved as well. ARGH!

I can rename each folder, which breaks the "link" between html file and media folder, but there must be a cleaner way to do it. Does anyone else know?

Best Answer

As I discovered, GAThrawn's answer is good if you have Office XP / 2003 installed on your system. If not, you need to jump into the registry;

Go START -> Run, type "regedit" and in the registry editor, browse to;

HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Explorer

Right-click in the left panel to create a new DWORD Value. Call it "NoFileFolderConnection" and give it a value of 1.

That's it! If you ever what to turn the linking on again, change NoFileFolderConnection's value to 0.

Alternatively (if you're comfortable applying a registry edit via a downloaded file) you can find a downloadable solution here; http://windowsxp.mvps.org/webpairs.htm.

More information can be found here; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776887%28VS.85%29.aspx

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