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AlanHo
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I am having problems today entering a URL in a posting when using IE - when I click on the insert link icon a window opens saying.

Windows Internet Explorer

You must enter a URL You must enter a title

Mozilla works OK - so it is confined to IE7

Windows XP SP2

IE7 RC1 (which was OK yesterday)

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Hi Alan,

Luckily I have the same setup as you, so I have been able to recreate and solve this problem.

It seems that IE7 has done a good job at locking down just about everything when it comes to running scripts. This is good from a security point of view, but will probably annoy many people when it comes to visiting sites where scripts are common place.

You should have noticed the yellow "infobar" appear at the top of the webpage in IE at the time you clicked the hyperlink button, it would have allowed you to temporarily allow the option, but in my experience saying yes to this leads to IE auto-refreshing causing you to lose what you have just typed.

A more long term solution is to add this site to your trusted list in IE. This seems to solve the "infobar" problem.

Click Tools > Internet Options > Security

Select "Trusted Sites"

Click "Sites"

Uncheck the https option at the bottom of the dialog.

Add http://forums.windowsforum.org

Click Close.

Exit out of Internet Options, and you are done!

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