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Hank Oredson wrote:

> This is a new one. Perhaps an SP2 change.
> Local intranet zone.
> Security set to low.
> All download options set to "enable".
> I have local web pages, served by a server in the local network.
> They organize my mp3 files.
> Click on a link and get the security warning popup.
> How do I disable this behavior?
> For now I must use Netscape or Firefox, they work fine.
>
Hi

Try this:

In the 'Internet Options', select the Advanced tab.

Under Security, enable
"Allow active content to run in files on My Computer"

If the above is of no help:

Adding "Mark of the Web" to your html files may help:

http://groups.google.com/groups?se [...] 12.phx.gbl



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"Hank Oredson" <horedson@att.net> wrote in message
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> "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" <Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com> wrote in message
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>> Hank Oredson wrote:
>>
>>> This is a new one. Perhaps an SP2 change.
>>> Local intranet zone.
>>> Security set to low.
>>> All download options set to "enable".
>>> I have local web pages, served by a server in the local network.
>>> They organize my mp3 files.
>>> Click on a link and get the security warning popup.
>>> How do I disable this behavior?
>>> For now I must use Netscape or Firefox, they work fine.
>>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> In the 'Internet Options', select the Advanced tab.
>>
>> Under Security, enable
>> "Allow active content to run in files on My Computer"
>
> That one was enabled.
>
>> If the above is of no help:
>>
>> Adding "Mark of the Web" to your html files may help:
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/groups?se [...] 12.phx.gbl
>
> These files are served by Apache running on the same machine,
> or on a different machine within the intranet. i.e. they are not loaded
> from the file system. They work fine if I do a File -> Open directly
> from the file system, whether "Allow active content ..." is checked
> or not.
>
> The problem also occurs for midi files and wma files.
> I play these via Winamp and do not use Windows Media Player.
>
> Set up another machine to use Windows Media Player, and the
> problem does not occur. So it seems to be related specifically
> to download vs. display (or play). Next test was to remove mp3
> from WinAmp's list of file types on this machine. Now IE will
> play the file without a prompt ... using Windows Media Player
> as expected. What I will do next is poke around in the registry
> to see what keys are lurking there related to the mp3 file type ;-)
>
> Thanks for your very quick response!


One more data point: I can set Netscape to specifically use WinAmp
to display audio/mpeg and audio/midi and that will override the default
use of Windows Media Player.

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