This can be set in two places depending on your network setup. The setting I discovered during my troubleshooting is “ Launching applications and unsafe files”. Setting these for both the Internet and Intranet settings should take care of the file open problems. Problems opening files in Internet Explorer, Firefox & Windows Explorer I unchecked them all and it works! The “your internet security settings prevented one or more files from being opened” didn’t block me and I can now open files on network drives. You may get the “these files cannot be opened” error when opening files on a network drive.Ĭontrol Panel –> Internet Options –> Security Tab
“your internet security settings prevented one or more files from being opened” There are some security settings that need to be tweaked inside the Internet Options to allow downloads again. This is very common error since the release of Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 we thought we had a major virus but this turned out not to be the case.
