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I want to add a file on my local drive (C:\something.html) to the Trusted Zone in IE8 (my OS is Windows Server 2003). The Add Sites Dialog box, does not seem to take entries for files on the local drive.

I have tried:

file://C:\something.html
file:\\localhost\c$\something.html

I have seen other solutions (on superuser and elsewhere) such Mark of Web, that allow your local file to be treated as if it were part of the internet zone, but I want to add my file to the Trusted Zone.

How can I do this? Thanks.

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  • I haven’t used IE for a while now, so I don’t know if they changed it, but aren’t all local files (ie My Computer) in the Trusted Zone already?
    – Synetech
    Feb 6, 2012 at 4:14
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    In IE9 and IE11, I can see that a local file is considered to be in the Internet security zone. In IE8, it is in Local Computer zone (it's hidden from the security settings dialog). Jul 5, 2014 at 16:34

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In Internet Explorer, go to

Tools → Internet Options → Advanced

Scroll down to the Security section and check the box for

Allow active content to run in files on My Computer
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    You have to restart Windows, too.
    – RhinoDevel
    Aug 9, 2017 at 6:52
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Dangerous suggestion :
Install IIS, add C: as a virtual directory, and add localhost to the Trusted Zone.

You can set the permissions to allow IIS access only to some of the directories on C:.

The only other solution I know is Mark of the Web.

For example:

<!-- saved from url=(0023)http://www.contoso.com/ -->

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