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Article ID: 930228 - Last Review: October 8, 2011 - Revision: 2.0

A truncated or changed version of the original file name appears in the "Save As" dialog box in Windows Internet Explorer 7

SYMPTOMS

In Windows Internet Explorer 7, you click a file. Then, on the File menu, you click Save As. When you do this, a truncated or changed version of the original file name appears in the Save As dialog box.

You experience this problem if the name of the file that you want to save contains characters from a multibyte character set (MBCS).

Note You also experience this problem when you right-click the file and then click Save Target As.

CAUSE

This problem occurs because Windows Internet Explorer 7 incorrectly handles MBCS characters and %-escaped characters.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, install the hotfix version of the files that are in the latest cumulative security update for Windows Internet Explorer 7. For more information about how to obtain the latest cumulative security update for Windows Internet Explorer 7, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx)
For more information about how to install the hotfix files in a cumulative security update for Windows Internet Explorer 7, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
897225  (http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=897225/ ) How to install hotfixes that are included in cumulative security updates for Internet Explorer
Note This hotfix is included in security update 928090 (MS07-016). It is also included in later cumulative security updates for Windows Internet Explorer 7.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

MORE INFORMATION

After you install the software update that is described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 928090, %-escaped characters may still appear at the beginning of a file name when you use the Save As functionality in Windows Internet Explorer 7.

For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
824684  (http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=824684/ ) Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates

APPLIES TO
  • Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP
  • Windows Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista
  • Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Server 2003
  • Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V
  • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V
  • Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems
  • Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V
  • Windows Server 2008 Datacenter
  • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
  • Windows Server 2008 Standard
  • Windows Web Server 2008
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