Vista - IE7 Protected Mode: Off

Running Vista Ultimate ...

Opening IE7, I note that the status bar reads (among other things)
"Protected Mode: Off". Alarmed, I opened Internet Options, the Security Tab,
and found that "Enable Protected Mode" was checked.

Going to "Help", I checked for a way to turn the Protected Mode back on, and
found nothing.

I then ran a complete Virus Scan, Ad-Aware Scan, and Spybot S & D Scan and
found nothing there, the computer appears to be clean.

Should I be alarmed that the Protected Mode is apparently not working, and
how do I turn it on?

Russ

I apologize to the group for the duplicate posts. For some reason I thought
the first was accidentally deleted and submitted the second.

Is there a way the 2nd post can be deleted?


"Rev OOC" <NoSpam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Running Vista Ultimate ...
>
> Opening IE7, I note that the status bar reads (among other things)
> "Protected Mode: Off". Alarmed, I opened Internet Options, the Security
> Tab, and found that "Enable Protected Mode" was checked.
>
> Going to "Help", I checked for a way to turn the Protected Mode back on,
> and found nothing.
>
> I then ran a complete Virus Scan, Ad-Aware Scan, and Spybot S & D Scan and
> found nothing there, the computer appears to be clean.
>
> Should I be alarmed that the Protected Mode is apparently not working, and
> how do I turn it on?
>
> Russ

Hello Russ,

Have you turned UAC off? If you have, that will also turn off Protected
Mode in IE.

"Rev OOC" <NoSpam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:CA31BCC6-04BE-4BE8-BDE7-7920E5CEE9FA@microsoft.com...
> Running Vista Ultimate ...
>
> Opening IE7, I note that the status bar reads (among other things)
> "Protected Mode: Off". Alarmed, I opened Internet Options, the Security
> Tab, and found that "Enable Protected Mode" was checked.
>
> Going to "Help", I checked for a way to turn the Protected Mode back on,
> and found nothing.
>
> I then ran a complete Virus Scan, Ad-Aware Scan, and Spybot S & D Scan and
> found nothing there, the computer appears to be clean.
>
> Should I be alarmed that the Protected Mode is apparently not working, and
> how do I turn it on?
>
> Russ

--
Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)

Yes, I do have UAC turned off. I'm the only user on this machine, and I
needed to turn it off to get Task Scheduler to start certain programs that
were blocked from starting with the computer by Defender.

Am I in any danger with the Protected Mode turned off? I guess I could
turnit back on and turn on those two applications (Karen's Replicator and
Dimension 4) I like so much manually.

I am using Haute Secure, and it seems to be working properly.



Russ

"Jane C" <janecolman@invalid.iinet.net.au> wrote in message
news:82AAD76A-F7CA-4A84-96E3-F271ED08648E@microsoft.com...
> Hello Russ,
>
> Have you turned UAC off? If you have, that will also turn off Protected
> Mode in IE.
>
> "Rev OOC" <NoSpam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:CA31BCC6-04BE-4BE8-BDE7-7920E5CEE9FA@microsoft.com...
>> Running Vista Ultimate ...
>>
>> Opening IE7, I note that the status bar reads (among other things)
>> "Protected Mode: Off". Alarmed, I opened Internet Options, the Security
>> Tab, and found that "Enable Protected Mode" was checked.
>>
>> Going to "Help", I checked for a way to turn the Protected Mode back on,
>> and found nothing.
>>
>> I then ran a complete Virus Scan, Ad-Aware Scan, and Spybot S & D Scan
>> and found nothing there, the computer appears to be clean.
>>
>> Should I be alarmed that the Protected Mode is apparently not working,
>> and how do I turn it on?
>>
>> Russ
>
> --
> Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)