trouble adding to Restricted sites in IE Options

Vista home premium, SP1
Internet explorer 7.0.6001.18000

attempting to add an address to the Restricted sites in the security tab of
Internet Options.
specific site is search.live.com, but applies to any other as well.

response is that Sites added to this zone must use the https// prefix. This
assures a secure connection.
That response is expected when adding to the Trusted sites, not the
restricted sites.

I have in the past added sites to the Restricted sites, currently there are
three sites in the list
*.intellitext.com
*.kontra.com
*.pulse360.com
none of which have prefix of https:\\

Any clues as to what is happening would be welcome.

Michael

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_character
http://www.linfo.org/wildcard.html

 

I have actually tried *.search.live.com, as well as *.live.com, system still
insists I need to prefix with https:\\

Michael

 

I have actually tried *.search.live.com, as well as *.live.com, system

You could try resetting all security settings to "default" to rule out the
possibility that a setting change is causing the problem. You could also
try installing SpywareBlaster which can add a list of known bad sites to the
restricted sites list (see if it succeeds).

 

Tried resetting each of the zones, no effect on the problem of adding a site
to the Restricted sites.
Downloaded SpywareBlaster, it successfully added a big bunch of sites into
the restricted sites list.

Thanks for input.
Michael

 

Did you Un-check the "Require https:// .." at the bottom (under the list of
trusted pages)?

 

Did you Un-check the "Require https:// .." at the bottom (under the list

I believe that option is only available for "Trusted Sites" and not
"Restricted Sites".

 

Tried resetting each of the zones, no effect on the problem of adding a

Glad to hear that SpywareBlaster worked, but I don't know why you can't add
the sites manually. I just tried it on my system and it accepted the entry
without complaint. I am also using Vista SP1 and IE7. I don't know if this
is relevant, but are you running an Admin or Limited User account?

 

yup, tried that although I am trying to enter into the untrusted
(restricted) sites, I thought there might be some sort of link.

 

My account is a member of the administrators. HMMM I wonder if a different
account might work??? I will give that a try.

Thanks for ideas, even for those that don't work out.
Michael

 

follow up
I created a new administrator member account. That account has no problem
adding entries to the restricted site list.
That has got to be a clue.... more thinking needed.

Michael

 

Having created the testing account, and that account worked, I saved the
registry entries starting from
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Internet settings from the
working account

then I deleted the same node from my non-working account

then I restored the registry settings in my account from the saved reg file
saved from the working test account.

So far everything is looking fine, I can add to the restricted list without
problem.

Michael

 

That's great you were able to fix it, but too bad we don't know what the
cause was!

 

I began to suspect registry corruption a couple of posts ago and
as it looked like you were heading in this direction with your last
post I was wondering if you would take that last step.

Congratulations!
Well done.

 

I have kept the two saved registry trees with the idea of seeing what is
different but my knowledge of the entries is pretty limited. If anyone is
interested in comparing them I could attach them.

Michael

 

for those still interested in my problem of not being able to add entries to
the restricted security zone sites, I have found the entry in the registry
that is stopping me.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Internet
Settings\Zones\4

entry of "Flags"=dword:00000007 prevents me from making entries
entry of "Flags"=dword:00000003 allows me to make entries

now the question is what is setting the 3 to a 7 (the problem returned!)

aside: anyone know what all the entries of "number"=dword: small hex value
are for?

Michael