仅打开文本文件时，如何防止IE显示“ Internet Explorer限制此网页运行脚本...”消息？

Question

In my software I need to open a plain text file for viewing only. I chose to use a default web browser to do that since it is most certainly available on any system. (Note that I can't use Notepad because of the " for viewing only " restriction.)

So to do that I do the following:

ShellExecute(NULL, L"open", TextFilePath, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

This works great on all web browsers, except, ... (you guessed it) IE. That shows this message:

"Internet Explorer restricted this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls"

The text file obviously doesn't have any scripts or Active X controls. It's just a .txt file! But understandably this message worries some users that think that my program tries to run something "bad" on their computer.

So I'm curious, if there a way to prevent this dumb message without modifying any global IE settings?

Answer 1

Maybe you should execute the following steps:

1. Go to internet options
2. Tab "advanced"
3. Scroll down to Security
4. Check mark "Allow active content to run in files on My Computer

Hopefully this will work.