but in IE go to Tools > Internet Options, click the Advanced tab, and scroll down to Multimedia.
If the tick boxes for "Play animations/sounds/videos" are unticked, place a tick in each as you need. Click Apply, then OK, then reload IE.
I hope this helps.
Mark
I have a small, but irksome problem. Whenever I visit a web site with media files, it decides to download instead (as if I were downloading a file), rather than just play in the browser. What gives?

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