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You're using Internet Explorer, and you're on a secure site,
such as a banking site, and all of a sudden, this intrusive message
pops up in the middle of the screen:
"This page contains both secure and nonsecure items.
Do you want to display the nonsecure items?"
Well, no, what I'd really like to do is drive a bulldozer
through Microsoft's headquarters.
Of course I want to display everything, I'm on a banking site!
Just because the bank's programmer linked to an image with HTTP://
instead of HTTPS:// is no reason to annoy me! It's an image,
not a virus, not an executable, just an image.
Microsoft says (in their help file):
"Secure and non-secure content, or mixed content, means
that a webpage is trying to display elements using both secure
(HTTPS/SSL) and non-secure (HTTP) web server connections. This
often happens with online stores or financial sites that display
images, banners, or scripts that are coming from a server that
is not secured.
"The risk of displaying mixed content is that a non-secure
webpage or script might be able to access information from the
secure content."
OK, ask me about scripts, but do NOT ask me about images!
And clean up this non-informative error message that doesn't
even tell me if it's a script or image. How dumb can you get?
Fortunately, this is one case where you can actually do something
about dumb messages.
First, take a look at your Internet Explorer screen. By default,
Microsoft hides the menu (why?) which allows you
to change the way IE behaves. If you do not see a line containing:
File | Edit | View | Favorites | Help
then you have to right click in the empty space just
above the display window, and a menu should be displayed. Click
on the Menu Bar line to put a check mark next to it. Then
the menu line should appear on the screen.
Now go to Tools | Internet Options
When you click on Internet Options, a complex window
appears with a bazillion things you can change, including the
default home page. Click on the Advanced tab.
Scroll down until you see the Security settings.
Keep on scrolling until you see Warn if changing between
secure and not secure mode.
Uncheck that option.
Click the OK button and you're done.
Now wasn't that intuitive? Computers are supposed to be easy
and to lessen your workload.
Unanswerable question: why does Microsoft hide the menu?
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