[racket] How to make IE play nicely with Help Desk

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Sun May 29 16:48:03 EDT 2011

40 minutes ago, Michael M Mason wrote:
> I'm new to Racket and to this mailing list. Looking through the archives I
> noticed that a few people have had trouble with Help Desk if they use
> Internet Explorer because IE blocks active content in files stored on the
> hard disk. Here's a way of stopping IE from doing that:-
> 
>   o  Open 'Internet Options' in Internet Explorer. The quick way is
>      to type ALT-T followed by O.
> 
>   o  Select the 'Advanced' tab and scroll down to the 'Security' section
>      (it's the last one).
> 
>   o  Tick the checkbox against 'Allow active content to run in files on
>      My Computer'.
> 
>   o  Click 'Apply', 'OK', etc. You'll need to restart Internet Explorer
>      to get the new setting to work.
> 
> Hope this helps.

The problem with this is that it allows it from *any* file.  IOW, IE
gives you either too much security ot too little.

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