MS WORD launches slowly due to IE local security setting

MS WORD launches slowly due to IE local security setting
Secure Home | Search | About
Login Password
Register Now! Lost Password?
 General Computer Security    Post an article   get this group's latest topics as an RSS feed add this group's latest topics to your My MSN content add this group's latest topics to your My Yahoo content add this group's latest topics to your Google content
Subject Author Date
MS WORD launches slowly due to IE local security setting Zak 11-02-2006
Posted by Zak on November 2, 2006, 9:04 am
If you were  Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
When I launch MICROSOFT WORD I see from Reg Mon (by System Internals)
that WOERD will not launch quickly because it is spending tens of
seconds looping through the registry checking the following key and its
associated subkeys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\Zones

There is an article by Miscosoft called:
"How to strengthen the security settings for the Local Machine zone in
Internet Explorer"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833633>.

This article suggests that the reg key I give above is for local user
security settings.

Does this mean I can delete this reg key and let security defualt to the
machine settings?

I am hoping that WORD will then not get stuck on the looping that I see.

Posted by Sebastian Gottschalk on November 2, 2006, 2:39 pm
If you were  Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
Zak wrote:

> Does this mean I can delete this reg key and let security defualt to the
> machine settings?

No. It means that you should abandon MSIE or MS Word, at best both.

> I am hoping that WORD will then not get stuck on the looping that I see.

WORD will get stuck for whatever reason it wants to see.

Posted by MC on November 2, 2006, 7:17 pm
If you were  Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
Zak wrote:
> When I launch MICROSOFT WORD I see from Reg Mon (by System Internals)
> that WOERD will not launch quickly because it is spending tens of
> seconds looping through the registry checking the following key and its
> associated subkeys:
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
> Settings\Zones
[rest snipped]

Word has no business looking at Internet settings -- it is supposed to
be a word processor. I guess this is the typical thing you will see
though with MS products always getting linked one way or another to MSIE
even if it's absolutely unneeded and unwanted.

I suggest you take a look at another word processor that doesn't try to
use an internet browser back-end (for whatever reason). A good
alternative is OpenOffice; it's free and can read/write MS word files if
needed.
I also suggest strongly that you get a firewall installed, and in it,
block MSIE from accessing the Internet (and through it, programs that
use it as a backdoor out to bypass firewalls), and install a different
browser for your surfing needs. I have done this a long time ago myself
without any negative side effects.


MC

Posted by Sebastian Gottschalk on November 2, 2006, 7:36 pm
If you were  Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
MC wrote:

> I also suggest strongly that you get a firewall installed, and in it,
> block MSIE from accessing the Internet

Firewalls can't filter by applications.

> (and through it, programs that use it as a backdoor out to bypass firewalls)

Thanks for cluttering my list of most stupid ideas.

> and install a different browser for your surfing needs.

Huh? You always need a webbrowser to surf, and as Windows doesn't include
any, you always have to install one.

Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on November 2, 2006, 9:36 pm
If you were  Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
Sebastian Gottschalk wrote:

> MC wrote:
>
>> I also suggest strongly that you get a firewall installed, and in it,
>> block MSIE from accessing the Internet
>
> Firewalls can't filter by applications.

Huh? My Windows personal software firewall asks me every time I start
Internet Explorer whether or not I want to give it access to the web.
It's Kerio, if you need to know. (IE is not my default browser, and I
only use it to test web pages.)

>> (and through it, programs that use it as a backdoor out to bypass
>> firewalls)
>
> Thanks for cluttering my list of most stupid ideas.
>
>> and install a different browser for your surfing needs.
>
> Huh? You always need a webbrowser to surf, and as Windows doesn't
> include any, you always have to install one.

Every Windows version since .. um .. W98? has had IE embedded in it.
Where are you buying *your* Windows?

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Similar ThreadsPosted
Setting Local Policies from batch file command May 20, 2005, 8:31 am
setting up a server to test security apps February 22, 2005, 9:50 pm
Webmasterslookup launches Encrypted Messaging Service. March 10, 2008, 4:27 pm
IBM Launches Services to Combat Worm and Virus Threats March 28, 2006, 2:02 pm
Setting up NIDS November 18, 2006, 9:14 am
Advice on setting up a packet sniffer at home January 16, 2006, 4:33 pm
Advice on setting up a packet sniffer at home January 16, 2006, 4:33 pm
Advice on setting up a packet sniffer at home January 16, 2006, 4:33 pm
Hiding my identity from Word document files June 12, 2007, 12:02 pm
snort don't log a scanning to local IP September 24, 2008, 1:14 pm

The site map in XML format XML site map

Contact Us | Privacy Policy