Problem With Saving Web Pages

[donaldfleming]

I recently bought a computer with Windows XP. A few days ago I uninstalled Mozilla Firefox, as I already had Internet Explorer. However, after doing this a problem occurred. When I visited web sites and saved pages to ‘My Documents’, these pages were not saved as they appeared on their web site; they were saved as Notepad documents, with computer symbols etc.

I figured that this had something to do with uninstalling Mozilla Firefox, so I visited a web site offering a free download and reinstalled the software. Yet, the problem that I had in saving web pages to ‘My Documents’ persists.

Can anyone advise me on how to fix this problem?

[bozo]

When you save the web pages, be sure to change the "file type" in the drop down menu at the bottom to HTML file, or HTML file with images.

[donaldfleming]

Hi Bozo,

Thanks for replying so quickly.

I tried what you suggested, but, unfortunately, it didn't fix the problem.
For your information, when saving a web document I selected the following drop down windows:

1. Save as Type: Web Page Complete (*.htm, *html)
2. Encoding: Western European Windows

With regard to 'Western European Windows', I live in the United Kingdom.

Thanks anyway for trying. Do you have any more ideas?

donaldfleming