Suppress information bar for local page displays

[Cynthia]

I'm a web designer and use Dreamweaver/UltraDev. Since installing
Service Pack 2, when I click to display my page from Dreamweaver into
IE, the javascript on my page causes the message "To help protect your
security, Internet Explorer has restricted this file from showing active
content that could access your computer. Click here for options..."

I've fiddled and fiddled with the security settings, I've enabled
everything in security settings both for internet and intranet and
nothing seems to turn this off. The same page when displayed from the
server does not do this. I do notice that IE will not let me select Low
for security level. I select it, but then when I go back in, it's back
at Medium again.

I have all the scripting options set to enable.

Anyone know how to turn off this highly annoying feature that eats up my
time having to constantly turn if off?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Local Machine Zone Lockdown - Developer Implications:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/productinfo/XPSP2/securebrowsing/lockdown_devimp.aspx

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

 

[Cynthia]

Local Machine Zone Lockdown - Developer Implications:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/productinfo/XPSP2/securebrowsing/lockdown_devimp.aspx


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

I'm sorry, but I don't understand this. It says "Developers of
stand-alone applications should plan to adopt changes in their
applications that host Internet Explorer." My applications don't "host"
IE, they simply use it for display to debug during development.

It also says "If your local HTML content currently runs inside of
Internet Explorer and experiences problems due to this mitigation, you
could save your content as an HTA (HTML application) file and try to
execute the file again in the Local Machine zone."

What? Save all my html files as .hta to test? That's a ridiculously
huge amount of work. Besides, I just tried a page that I saved as .hta
and still got the same message.

Towards the end, it says "If your sites run in the Internet or Local
Intranet zones, you should not be impacted by these changes. When I'm
displaying from Dreamweaver into IE on my machine, isn't that the Local
Intranet zone?

I also searched in XP Help for Lockdown, Local Machine Lockdown and
there is nothing.

This is ridiculous and I wish I'd never upgraded to Service Pack 2.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

When I'm displaying from Dreamweaver into IE on my machine, isn't that
It runs under Local Machine (My Computer zone). If you don't prefer renaming
the HTM files to HTA, you may consider adding the Mark of the Web code in
those HTM files (later part in the 1st URL I posted above)

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Allow active content to run in files on My Computer - Windows XP Service
Pack 2:
http://www.winxptutor.com/lmzunlock.htm