Solved Saving mht by default in IE9

[sortserg]

Hi,

New to sevenforums, I'd like to shortly present myself. I specially have interest in computer. But many questions remain unsolved... That's why I register.

That said, I'd like to know if it's possible to force IE9 to save in .mht format. I found no valid information on the Net. Do you have any idea? Does anyone of you found a solution? Thanks in advance to share info.

Have a good day,
Serge
Windows 7 Ultimate x64

 

[Brink]

Hello Serge, and welcome to Seven Forums.

When you click on File (menu bar) and Save as in IE9, you will be able to select to save it as a .mht file like below.



Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[sortserg]

Yes, Brink, I kown, but...

Hello Brink,

Indeed, Internet Explorer saves files in html format by default. And I never use it because it creates a separate folder with files in it and one more separate file.

I find this very messy and unorganized - I far prefer saving all info into one file. Furthermore, it's more logical: when you save to PDF, for example, or to Word documents: do you have more than one file?


So, when I want to save file in .htm as I always do, I have to manually change each time the mht extension. Mht extension is NOT SELECTED BY DEFAULT.

Is there something to change in the Registry?

I leave this up to you, hoping that someone is bored, just like me, by clicking more than once to get the desired extension: mht.

Thanks in advance and have a good day,

Serge

 

[pincushion]

This is something I have not been able to find a solution to either and like sortserg I always save in mht format so find it a real pain having to change the format on most occasions. Sometimes the mht is already there selected but mostly it isn't. Such a simple thing but it seems too hard for MS to accommodate!

:huh:

 

[sortserg]

Hello pincushion

Just as you said, it's rarely proposed in .mht. There should be a solution ! Does anyone know personally Bill Gates?!

 

[Victor S]

Just as you said, it's rarely proposed in .mht. There should be a solution ! Does anyone know personally Bill Gates?!

Check this:
file, save as, mht - how to set mht as the default format - Microsoft Answers

I don't care about this functionality myself, but I just love solutions!
You may or may not like this one. I didn't test it.

 

[sortserg]

Thanks Victor! You are a real champion for finding solution!

Hi Victor,

At least, you give us the solution of a simple question never solved: how to save in .mht format by default in Internet Explorer 9!

As Try*3 said toウィンドウズスクリプトプログラマ in the mentioned forum you give me the link (and the valuable solution!)[FONT=&quot] [see the original link you mention in your post: [/FONT]file, save as, mht - how to set mht as the default format - Microsoft Answers[FONT=&quot]]:[/FONT]

"Thank you very much indeed. This works & is the answer I've been searching for since March

(posted on July 16, 2012). When I click on the item, it opens the Save as... dialog with the file type already set to mht."

So, to resume all in one post, here is how to set the saving in .htm by default:

1. Open Notepad.


2. Copy the following text in the new window that opens:


Set ies=CreateObject("Shell.Application").Windows()
For Each ie In ies
If ie.ReadyState=4 Then If TypeName(ie.Document)="HTMLDocument" Then If ie.Document.hasFocus() Then Exit For
Next
If IsEmpty(ie) Then
For Each ie In ies
If ie.ReadyState<>4 Then
ElseIf TypeName(ie.Document)="HTMLDocument" Then
ie.Document.focus
If ie.Document.hasFocus() Then Exit For
End If
Next
End If
If IsEmpty(ie) Then
MsgBox "Not Found"
WScript.Quit
End If
href=ie.locationURL
Set a=ie.Document.createElement("a")
a.href=href
a.hash="##"
ie.Document.parentWindow.setTimeout "location.replace """ & a.href & """",0,"vbscript"
Do While ie.Document.parentWindow.location.hash<>"##"
WScript.Sleep 100
Loop
ie.ExecWB 4,1
ie.Document.parentWindow.location.replace href



3. ORIGINAL TEXT

--
Save this script on your desktop as "SaveAsMHT.vbs" (without quotes).

Drag this file (SaveAsMHT.vbs) to the middle of the menu bar (at the bottom of the screen, after the Start button

and the shortcuts of Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer, Firefox [if you use it], etc).
--

To simplify, I didn't save the file to the desktop as suggested by the author, but I directly saved it to C:\Users\username\Favorites. One operation instead of two.

4. In Internet Explorer Favorites, click on "SaveAsMHT.vbs"instead of clicking on "save as".

5. A new windows pops up, waiting you to enter a file name (see just below the file name: you now see that Internet Explorer will save with the .htm archive extension)

.



Thanks to ウィンドウズスクリプトプログラマ for finding the solution, and to Victor for the link!

Thanks again to all of you, and have a good day!

Serge

P.-S. Here is this file in PDF format, for easier using.

 

[pincushion]

Nice one chaps! I had to change the permissions to enable write access for users before it would work but it does now -yippee! Thanks Serge for getting at the solution.

 

[sortserg]

I just summerized

Hi pincushion!

"Thanks Serge for getting at the solution."

Well, I didn't... Victor did! I just summarized the info (and test it)

As we say in French: "Il faut rendre à César ce qui appartient à César" (the citation is indeed from the Bible's New Testament (Matthew 22:21). "Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's."

 

[Victor S]

Hi pincushion!

"Thanks Serge for getting at the solution."

Well, I didn't... Victor did! I just summarized the info (and test it)

As we say in French: "Il faut rendre à César ce qui appartient à César" (the citation is indeed from the Bible's New Testament (Matthew 22:21). "Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's."

Nice job of that you did too.

 

[pincushion]

Hi pincushion!

"Thanks Serge for getting at the solution."

Well, I didn't... Victor did! I just summarized the info (and test it)

As we say in French: "Il faut rendre à César ce qui appartient à César" (the citation is indeed from the Bible's New Testament (Matthew 22:21). "Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's."

Apologies to Victor, who provided the solution, but Serge you initiated the thread and I might not have found the solution otherwise.

I chose to include the vbs link in Favorites and it didn't seem to work from the Taskbar ??

I am sure this will make a lot of people happy so good work all round.

 

[waks770]

I had to change the permissions to enable write access for users

permissions where?

 

[pincushion]

I had to change the permissions to enable write access for users

permissions where?

If you right-click the SaveAsMHT.vbs file then properties and then security you will find the levels of access. I needed to change the access to enable write access for all users since this was not allowed initially. Perhaps it was just my system though.

:huh:

 

[waks770]

thanx. my system also. it works!

 

[pincushion]

thanx. my system also. it works!

Glad it worked.

 

[waks770]

now, even better: use fabulous free AutoHotkey_L for single key stroke to run the .vbs rather than from favorites. but you probably already know about that program?

 

[pincushion]

now, even better: use fabulous free AutoHotkey_L for single key stroke to run the .vbs rather than from favorites. but you probably already know about that program?

I've heard good things about AutoHotkey but I use HotKeyz to perform similar tasks - never thought about using a key-stroke though, ta