Category: At least Internet Explorer 7.0

This policy setting prevents users from having Internet Explorer automatically discover whether a feed or Web Slice is available for an associated webpage. If you enable this policy setting the user does not receive a notification on the toolbar that a feed or Web Slice is available. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the user receives a notification when a feed or Web Slice is available and can click the feed discovery button.

This policy setting prevents the user from subscribing to or deleting a feed or a Web Slice. If you enable this policy setting the menu command to subscribe to a feed and the menu command to delete a feed are disabled and access to Web Slices is turned off. A developer cannot add a feed or Web Slice or delete a feed or Web Slice by using the Feed APIs. A developer also cannot create or delete folders. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the user can subscribe to a feed or Web Slice through the Subscribe button in Internet Explorer and delete a feed or Web Slice through the feed list control. A developer can add or delete a feed or Web Slice by using the Feed APIs.

This policy setting specifies whether Internet Explorer prints background colors and images when the user prints a webpage. Including background colors and images might reduce the speed at which a page is printed and the quality of the printing depending on the capabilities of the printer. If you enable this policy setting the printing of background colors and images is turned on. The user cannot turn it off. If you disable this policy setting the printing of background colors and images is turned off. The user cannot turn it on. If you do not configure this policy setting the user can turn on or turn off the printing of background colors and images.

This policy setting specifies whether you want Internet Explorer to smooth images so that they appear less jagged when displayed. If you enable this policy setting smart image dithering is turned off. The user cannot turn it on. If you disable this policy setting smart image dithering is turned on. The user cannot turn it off. If you do not configure this policy setting the user can turn on or turn off smart image dithering.

This policy setting specifies whether placeholders appear for graphical images while the images are downloading. This allows items on the page to be positioned where they will appear when the images are completely downloaded. This option is ignored if the Show Pictures check box is cleared. If you enable this policy setting placeholders appear for graphical images while the images are downloading. The user cannot change this policy setting. The “Turn off image display” policy setting must be disabled if this policy setting is enabled. If you disable this policy setting placeholders will not appear for graphical images while the images are downloading. The user cannot change this policy setting. If you do not configure this policy setting the user can allow or prevent the display of placeholders for graphical images while the images are downloading.

This policy setting specifies whether graphical images are included when pages are displayed. Sometimes pages that contain several graphical images are displayed very slowly. If you want to display pages more quickly you can turn off image display. If you enable this policy setting images do not appear. The user cannot turn on image display. However the user can still display an individual image by right-clicking the icon that represents the image and then clicking Show Picture. The “Allow the display of image download placeholders” policy setting must be disabled if this policy setting is enabled. If you disable this policy setting images appear. The user cannot turn off image display. If you do not configure this policy setting the user can turn on or turn off image display.

This policy setting specifies that you want Internet Explorer to automatically resize large images so that they fit in the browser window. If you enable this policy setting automatic image resizing is turned off. The user cannot change this setting. If you disable this policy setting automatic image resizing is turned on. The user cannot change this setting. If you do not configure this policy setting the user can turn on or off automatic image resizing.