XP Pro SP2. Since installing the last set of Windows updates I get a
security warning dialog every time I try to run a program or open a
file on a mapped drive. How can I disable all of these warnings and
return to the old behavior?

All I have found using Google groups are messages that say add the
server to some zone in IE with no clue how to do it. I will do this for
every computer on the networ if I must but what I really want is to
configure Windows so that it will never display a warning for any file
on any computer on the local area network. Thanks.

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..Bill.

Bill wrote:
> XP Pro SP2. Since installing the last set of Windows updates I get a
> security warning dialog every time I try to run a program or open a
> file on a mapped drive. How can I disable all of these warnings and
> return to the old behavior?
>
> All I have found using Google groups are messages that say add the
> server to some zone in IE with no clue how to do it. I will do this
> for every computer on the networ if I must but what I really want
> is to configure Windows so that it will never display a warning for
> any file on any computer on the local area network. Thanks.

Add the server to your local intranet zone in Internet Explorer.
(If you can google - which you said you found this - the steps are there.)

Not only could you do it through Internet Explorer, Tools, Options... But
it is registry settings as well.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Internet
Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\

Active Directory? Could use a GPO.

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IE version?

Post the complete warning, verbatim.
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MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
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Bill wrote:
> XP Pro SP2. Since installing the last set of Windows updates I get a
> security warning dialog every time I try to run a program or open a
> file on a mapped drive. How can I disable all of these warnings and
> return to the old behavior?
>
> All I have found using Google groups are messages that say add the
> server to some zone in IE with no clue how to do it. I will do this for
> every computer on the networ if I must but what I really want is to
> configure Windows so that it will never display a warning for any file
> on any computer on the local area network. Thanks.

Shenan Stanley wrote:

> Add the server to your local intranet zone in Internet Explorer.
> (If you can google - which you said you found this - the steps are
> there.)

I assume you are trying to help but do you really believe that if I had
been able to find the steps with Google I would have ignored them and
then posted here? To find something with Google when the subject is
technical you have to know the correct terms of art to use in your
search and I suspect that I am not searching for the correct word or
combination of words.

I opened the IE 7 properties page and selected the Local Intranet zone
and poked around but everything I found there refers to Web sites. I
don't understand what IE has to do with opening files on a hard drive
on the local LAN.

>
> Not only could you do it through Internet Explorer, Tools, Options...
> But it is registry settings as well.
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Internet
> Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\

The only thing under that key on my machine is msn.com\related which
has one value named http which is a double word set to 4. I don't
understand what that means or how to use what I see to disable the
security messages.

>
> Active Directory? Could use a GPO.

Sorry but I do not know what Active Directory or GPO are. This is a
home network with no domain. I am neither a Windows expert or a network
administrator. I need the answer for dummies.<g>

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..Bill.

PA Bear wrote:

> IE version?
>
> Post the complete warning, verbatim.

IE 7. Thanks.

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..Bill.

"Thanks" is the complete, verbatim warning?

Bill wrote:
> PA Bear wrote:
>
>> IE version?
>>
>> Post the complete warning, verbatim.
>
> IE 7. Thanks.

After another half hour of searching I found a message that suggested
entering file://MachineName as a Web site in the Local Intranet | Sites
| Advanced dialog and, based on a quick test, that seems to work.

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..Bill.