@ whs - When I did the restore a window poppup up saying my files wouldn't be affected.
Well, I have Shadow Explorer, but I didn't need it. All files were there on my external drive.
And I've always been a backup freak - just system restore wasn't a big favorite of mine (I have several other ways of keeping backups), but this time it made rolling back easy (... or rather, easier - I have to reïnstall my pdf printer and copy back my files to My Docs).

@ Lighthouse - thanks for the concern, but yes, all is good:)
Btw - somewhere it said 'documenten' instead of 'documents' so maybe the folder got renamed and is still there somewhere. Haven't found it yet, but we'll see.

Oh and if someone knows how to undo a setting like this in IE, please post it - I'd still like to know how to handle IE the proper way! LOL

Yes - that was the one!
Except in mine there was the option not to ask anymore in the future.

I have never seen this option (checkbox) to supress this pop-up. But this is not an IE problem because this window will appear in any browser. This is a system function. But I don't know how to make it reappear. Have to think....

Thanks for the update jd. Looks like I never ran across the filetypes in question. But how can one undo this checkmark? I am pretty certain that this is not an IE specific problem because she could have just as well used Opera or Firefox with probably the same result.