autorun and browser

[Guest]

I have IE as my default browser. Autorun works fine with audio, but I'm
having trouble with a data CD. What is supposed to happen is the browser
window is to open (using shellexe.exe command) and then an .htm file. What
actually happens is the shell opens but not the .htm file. It opens properly
in IE in other computers, and if I set my default browser to Netscape it
opens properly in it. So something is corrupt in my IE. Any ideas about
repairing it?

 

[Jon Kennedy]

In IE go to Tools...Internet Options...Advanced tab, scroll down to the
Security section and check the first two boxes re Active Content, click
Apply, click Okay.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for responding, Jon. I clicked the No answer to the question whether
your solution worked thinking maybe it would let me explain! Since it didn't,
I'll tell you what happened here.

Before receiving your reply, I downloaded and installed Firefox and worked
with it awhile. When I removed it and changed IE back to the program to open
the various htm-type suffixes, IE started opening properly when I inserted
the autorun CDs. Go figure.

I did look at the Security section of the Advanced tab as Jon suggested and
checked the first two boxes although I didn't see the term "Active Content"
in any of the options in that section.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Thanks for responding, Jon. I clicked the No answer to the question whether
your solution worked thinking maybe it would let me explain! Since it didn't,
I'll tell you what happened here.

Before receiving your reply, I downloaded and installed Firefox and worked
with it awhile. When I removed it and changed IE back to the program to open
the various htm-type suffixes, IE started opening properly when I inserted
the autorun CDs. Go figure.

I did look at the Security section of the Advanced tab as Jon suggested and
checked the first two boxes although I didn't see the term "Active Content"
in any of the options in that section.

That's the hazard of not disclosing your OS when you report a problem.
You may get advice based on our best guess about your OS,
which in this case would have been XPsp2.

If you have checked something like
Allow software to run or install even if the signature is invalid
and left it checked I would say you are exposing your machine
to an unnecessary risk.

Congratulations on your "repair".


Robert Aldwinckle
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