What's the difference between "Run" and "Save" when downloading?

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i don't know what happened, but my comment was cut off. Anyway now I can "run" it now or "save" it for later.

Run lets you play or use the data you want at the moment off the disc or website you are on. Save keeps it on your hard drive so you can use it anytime you want without a disc or going to the website.

Another great value of SAVE is when you are downloading something you want to move and run on another machine.

I NEVER, use the Run. I use the "Save As" so that I can scan the file for viruses.
Run is just to damn risky in my opinion.

I agree 100% with Scott. By using "Save" you can scan for viruses before opening the file. If you just use "Run" who knows what you have downloaded besides the file. I am sooooo very surprised that "Ask Leo" didn't bring this up in his answer.

My computer behaves (now) at "Save" almost like at "Run". I mean... It looks like it downloads the file somewhere (I don't know where), then, after a (long) time, the "Save to" dialog box appears and the saving takes only 1 second (regardless the file width).
See screen caps at www.geocities.com/iani2004/trouble/
What's going on?

I like to save them. This way I have a copy if the need arises that it needs to be re-installed at some time.
http://www.domdedomdom.com

I was ttrying to help a friend reinstall a program that had been installed by our IT Department. In anticipation of his question (do I select run or save?), I submittted the question to Goggle. I tried a few sites. Your site was, without doubt, the most targeted and helpful response. Thank you so much!

I downloaded a long file to run and for some reason I was disconnected from the web. I found the file and saved it but then didn't know what to open the file with. Nothing worked. So I gave up and deleted the saved file and went to redownload. Apparently the run file was still there and the install proceeded without another long download. I don't know what was used to open the run file but I am glad it worked.

as scott and especially glorya im very surprised that leo didnt mention the better security of SAVE. There are things to discuss here, like how much safe is SAVE itself?

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