In this dialog box in Internet Explorer® Maintenance (IEM), you can customize preference settings in the Inetset.iem file for the users and computers in your organization. These settings can also be set using Internet Options in Control Panel or using Group Policy administrative templates.
Certain Internet Settings options are only supported in either Internet Explorer 6 or Internet Explorer 8. For example, the following Advanced settings options are supported in Internet Explorer 6, but are not supported in Internet Explorer 8:
- Show Go button in Address bar
- Show friendly URLs
- Enable page hit counting
- Play videos
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For this version of IEM, all settings in this dialog box have been converted to true policies that can be managed from Group Policy. These settings are located in Group Policy under Computer Configuration or User Configuration at Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\Internet Settings. |
You must be a member of the Administrators group to work with IEM and Group Policy objects (GPOs).
To configure Internet Settings for Internet Explorer using IEM |
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In IEM, right-click Internet Explorer Maintenance, and then click Preference Mode.
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In the left pane, click Advanced, and then in the right pane double-click Internet Settings.
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Edit the values in one or more of the following dialog boxes:
- AutoComplete. Use this dialog box to
specify whether you want Windows® to complete entries that are
typed by users, based on entries they have used before. This
includes URLs in the Internet Explorer address bar, paths in the
Windows Explorer address bar, and various fields in Web forms,
including passwords. For example, if you start typing
http://www.micr and you have visited
http://www.microsoft.com before, AutoComplete will suggest
"http://www.microsoft.com." In particular, you can disable your
users' ability to save passwords by clearing the Prompt to save
passwords check box. The settings available in this dialog box
are more detailed than the settings available in Internet
Options.
- Display Settings. Use this dialog box
to configure various display settings, including default text size,
background colors, and link colors for visited and non-visited
sites. These settings are also available in Internet Options
on the General tab.
- Advanced Settings. Use this dialog box
to configure settings for connections, multimedia, security,
printing, browsing, and searching. In addition, you can specify
whether you want to enable the Microsoft® VM (virtual machine)
logging and Microsoft VM JIT (just in time) compiler features. You
may want to disable these features to restrict the use of Active
Content and/or to comply with the Internet Explorer Enhanced
Security Configuration default settings. These settings are a
subset of the settings that are available in Internet
Options on the Advanced tab. For more information about
restricting Active Content, see article 154036 in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=67807). For
more information about default settings, see Managing Internet
Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration, (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=26091).
- URL Encoding. Configure this option to
specify whether to use UTF-8. This enables your users to exchange
URLs that contain characters from any language.
- Component Updates. Use this dialog box
to specify whether you want to update Internet Explorer and the
cipher strength value in About Internet Explorer on the
Help menu. For Internet Explorer updates, you can use the
default URL that points to Internet Explorer downloads (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=67690), or you
can specify another site used by your company. In addition, you can
specify how often you want your computers to check for updates.
- AutoComplete. Use this dialog box to
specify whether you want Windows® to complete entries that are
typed by users, based on entries they have used before. This
includes URLs in the Internet Explorer address bar, paths in the
Windows Explorer address bar, and various fields in Web forms,
including passwords. For example, if you start typing
http://www.micr and you have visited
http://www.microsoft.com before, AutoComplete will suggest
"http://www.microsoft.com." In particular, you can disable your
users' ability to save passwords by clearing the Prompt to save
passwords check box. The settings available in this dialog box
are more detailed than the settings available in Internet
Options.
Additional references
- For instructions for changing IEM to
preference mode, see Use IEM in Preference
Mode.
- For instructions for opening IEM, see
Open
IEM.
- For more information about working with IEM,
see Configure
IEM Settings.