Vista - Re: Protected Mode

Forwarded to Vista Security newsgroup via crosspost.

Vista has much more enhanced security, compared to WinXP, Jack. It'd be a
very good idea to spend some time learning about User Account Control (UAC),
Elevated Privileges, and IE Protected Mode. Vista Help is a good place to
start.

References:

Windows Vista: Features Explained: Internet Explorer Protected Mode:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...ectedmode.mspx

Windows Vista Help: What does Internet Explorer protected mode do?
[see related links @ bottom of page]
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...013031033.mspx

Internet Explorer 7 Protected Mode (technical; DOC download)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...2-EA28ED620AB4
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Jack B wrote:

Thanks for the links. I understand the basics of what Protected mode and
Vista does more or less. And I don't have a problem with a few extra mouse
clicks when I want to run certain files or download something. But when I
try to run a simple video, like I did this morning, and it just doesn't
work, and there is no error message, that is where Vista fails miserably.
In this example I called GolfTec, and they got my info up on their screen
and told me it worked there, so that led me to think that the problem was my
computer (and Vista), so then I had to find an XP machine and try it, to
find that it worked there, and then just guessing I turned off Protected
Mode, and found that that fixed some of the problem but not all.

This is not the first time I've wasted time forcing Vista to let me do
routine things...... I guess I'll stop the Vista rant. I get myself worked
up too easy over this software. Any idea what I need to do to get the rest
of the stuff working?


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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What exactly is it you are doing and where/how exactly is it failing? I watch
videos all the time on Vista and it never fails for me. Can you give us more
details to help figure out what is wrong here?

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"Jack B" wrote:

The website is golftec.com, but you have to be a member to get into the area
where I'm having the problem. It's kind of a high tech golf lesson package
where short videos and images from the lesson are posted on the web, and
then later I can play them and work on correcting things. So, when I first
entered this site, some of the videos played and some did not. There were
no error messages - it's just that nothing happened when I clicked on them.
When I turned off protected mode, some of those that didn't work suddenly
worked, but there are some still images that won't come up when I click the
appropriate link, for example an image at the top of the backswing won't
come when I click the button.

Everything works fine when I do it on my wifes XP laptop or my sons XP
desktop.

"Jesper" <Jesper@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Jack B" <jbruss@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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....Details? Some Vista users have reported problems with .png files...


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The ones I don't get are frames of a video. For example, during a short
video of my golf swing, I can click a "top of backswing" button and I will
see an image of my swing at that point on an XP machine - the video will
have stopped playing and just the one frame is shown. When I click that
button on my Vista machine the video just keeps playing. I can stop the
video manually by pressing space bar to toggle the video between play and
pause.

The video is a .m1v file.


"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Try including the site in the Trusted Sites zone and see what happens. That
will tease out if it is a simple security setting that is causing the
problem.

To include the site in Trusted Sites open it up, and then double-click the
little Icon at the bottom that says "Internet"

Next click "Trusted sites" and then click the Sites button.

If you are on the golftec site already it should have that site selected in
the "Add this website..." box. You probably will need to uncheck the "Require
server verification for all sites in this zone" box though.

Hit Add, then Close, and then OK. Now try it and see if the site works.

If this makes everything work then the site is trying to do something
strange that is violating the security settings in IE. If you were curious
and demented, like me, you would at this point put the site back in the
Internet zone and then go through each of the security settings to see which
one(s) it is running afoul. Normal people would probably just leave it be at
this point.

Let us know if that works.
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"Jack B" wrote:

OK, I included GolfTec in the "trusted site" list and unchecked the "req
server verification" box, and no change - I still get nothing when I click
the "top of backswing" button. Also, I tried turning Prot Mode back on to
see if the other videos (drills) would play now, and they still don't - that
is I still have to have protected mode off to play those.

"Jesper" <Jesper@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Jack B" <jbruss@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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........
That doesn't look like "still images" to me. That looks like an ActiveX
extension which might not be authorized for the user. Some of those
work better when LocalMachine_LockDown is in effect. E.g _uncheck_
Allow active content to run in files on My Computer*
* takes effect in a new instance of the browser
(in Options, Advanced tab, Security section)

Also try switching to a cmd window and enter:

assoc .m1v

and

ftype mpegfile

(assuming that .m1v=mpegfile is what the first command returns.
If assoc returns something else that would indicate that you have something
nonstandard installed which could be incompatible in this scenario.
Similarly, the filetype action could be replaced by a nonstandard
and that might also show symptoms of incompatibility (especially
if it wasn't particularly Vista-aware.)


HTH

Robert
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I notice they do not include the Windows Vista operating system under their
"PC Requirements" at their help site:
http://www.golftec.com/members/yourhelp.php

They only list requirements for the "Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4)", and
"Windows XP (Service Pack 2)" operating systems. Have you tried their
contact support at that site to see if there is any resolution to the
problems you are having using the Vista operating system.

Good luck,

Donald Anadell


"Jack B" <jbruss@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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