[racket] stop IE8 on Win7 blocking Help Desk search

From: Jordan Schatz (jordan at noionlabs.com)
Date: Fri May 6 15:49:06 EDT 2011

This is the only way I am aware of to get IE to automatically run JS in
local files:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749149(WS.10).aspx
(keep reading, it starts there but the important bit is a couple
paragraphs down)

It makes no sense to me why IE does that... 

Shalom,
Jordan

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:23:34PM +0200, Jos Koot wrote:
> I have looked for such a list with great effort. There is such a list, but
> it accepts urls only. It does not accept locally stored files. The odd thing
> is that when opening http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/index.html from
> IE (on my system), no questions are asked while asking to open a locally
> stored copy, the question is asked. Under windows 7 the question not even
> offers a 'remember this answer' option.
> Jos
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: users-bounces at racket-lang.org 
> > [mailto:users-bounces at racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Eli Barzilay
> > Sent: 06 May 2011 20:41
> > To: Stephen Chang
> > Cc: Racket Users
> > Subject: Re: [racket] stop IE8 on Win7 blocking Help Desk search
> > 
> > An hour and a half ago, Stephen Chang wrote:
> > > > I've started using Racket on win7 and it is being blocked by from
> > > > doing some javascript with the following message in the
> > > > 'information bar':
> > > >>
> > > >> 'To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted
> > > >> this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls that could
> > > >> access your computer. Click here for options...'
> > > >
> > > > I can 'allow blocked content' but I was wondering if anyone has a
> > > > solution that doesn't require me to authorise help desk every time
> > > > I hit F1.
> > > 
> > > Isnt there a permanent "allowed" list?
> > 
> > If there is one, I didn't find it.  It would be nice if there was some
> > registry key that avoids that for a whole directory -- I could make
> > the installer set such a key.
> > 
> > -- 
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> > Eli Barzilay:
> >                     http://barzilay.org/                   
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