get IE to allow local files into trusted zone

[gil]

I use a default "home page" which is stored on my E: drive. It includes
some active content that I wish to have available ALL of the time,
mostly mouseovers. It works fine with my default browser, which is not
IE. On the few occasions when I must use IE6, I get the following
security warning when I go to the 'home page':-

"To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this
file from showing active content that could access your computer. Click
here for options..."

How do I tell IE to ALWAYS allow this 'site' or page to use active
content. The site is actually a local file, NOT on the internet, or
intranet, but located on my own E: drive. 'Internet Options - Security'
only seems to want to include WEBSITES into the various zones, sites
preceded by 'http'.

Please tell me that there is a way to allow IE to display this page with
full active access, without having to compromise security from outside
sites.


Thank you
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[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Gil,

Use the MOTW code.

Mark of the Web:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/motw.asp

-or-

To remove the "FEATURE_LOCALMACHINE_LOCKDOWN" restriction for the current
user profile:

In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options. On the
Advanced tab, scroll down to the Security section of the list. Select the
Allow active content to run in files on My Computer check box, and then
click OK.

 

[gil]

Thanks for your help. I used the second method and it works fine. At
first reading, the MOTW seems to apply to downloaded documents, and may
possibly force them to run at a more restrictive security setting.

This is actually the opposite that I was trying to accomplish, so the
second method was preferable.

Of course, now that I have enabled active elements in My Computer, I
leave myself wide open to the types of take-overs described in the MOTW
page.

Just goes to show...
you can't have everything!

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Gil.

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You may not need to reconstruct your hard drive later!

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