To manually disable the warning you can find the solution here  - <a href="http://radio.javaranch.com/pascarello/2005/05/18/1116473896158.html">http://radio.javaranch.com/pascarello/2005/05/18/1116473896158.html</a>.  It works in XP (I don't have Vista to verify), and it's easier to do than using MOTW. If it's just for yourself - the above should do it.  If it's for deployment to others, my suggestions are 1) tell others about the manual solution, 2) as you said - use the installer to flip the registry (and as you said - not the best idea), or 3) deploy a mini web server and serve the file via that mini web server that only listen to the localhost (an icon that'll start the web server then shell-execute the link to the home page ought to do it). IMHO html files is easier to read from a web server (local or remote) rather than a file system. Cheers, yc <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Eli Barzilay <<a href="mailto:eli@barzilay.org">eli@barzilay.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">(This is in case there's anyone that has a good solution to this problem.) When you view local files with scripts, you get IE to show the warning bar, which you must use to enable javascript.  This is a problem that affects practically all pages, since they all have some JS. (Quick poll: is there anyone that has this problem (and is annoyed by it)?) The only solution I've seen is to add a "mark of the web" (MOTW), which is a comment the tells IE to pretend that the page is on a different security zone.  It looks like this:   (This was, of course, very hard to get to work: nobody thought that it's good to mention that the comment must end the line, and its line must have a CRLF...) Anyway, adding this mark works, but if you try it you'll see that links stop working.  The thing is that the above mark switches IE to the "internet" zone, and since that is lower on the hierarchy than local files, `file://' links will just not work.  IIRC, the local files belong to the "my computer" zone which is higher on the zone hierarchy, but it's still more restricted because of MS's "local machine zone lockdown"...  As a complement this logical set of decisions, the non-functional links are just not working when you click them -- no dialog, no information bar, no beeps, not even the small "!" icon at the bottom.  Nothing. The "obvious" solution to this is to add the MOTW to *all* pages. However, there are some links to non-html pages (like in the release notes).  In these cases there is no place to add the mark, and (AFAICT) no way to make this work.  This makes the MOTW solution impractical, since the links are just not responding.  (If they'd only have some warning message that would be fine...) Anyway, I don't see any reasonable options left.  Unreasonable options include: - recommending against using IE (or Windows...); - recommending viewing the manuals on-line when possible; - making the PLT installer flip the bit that avoids the problem  (personally, I'd be pissed if some installer did this behind my  back); - use an obnoxious .hta wrapper around the manuals; - tell people to live with it or disable it themselves (which is  effectively the current situation without the "tell" part). I've been banging my head against this stupidity for too many hours. If anyone has an advice, I'll appreciate it. --          ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay:                  <a href="http://www.barzilay.org/" target="_blank">http://www.barzilay.org/</a>                 Maze is Life! _________________________________________________  For list-related administrative tasks:  <a href="http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme" target="_blank">http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme</a> </blockquote></div>