Category: At least Internet Explorer 9.0

This policy setting prevents Internet Explorer from displaying a notification when the average time to load all the user’s enabled add-ons exceeds the threshold. The notification informs the user that add-ons are slowing his or her browsing and displays a button that opens the Disable Add-ons dialog box. The Disable Add-ons dialog box displays the load time for each group of add-ons enabled in the browser. It allows the user to disable add-ons and configure the threshold. If you enable this policy setting users are not notified when the average time to load all the user’s enabled add-ons exceeds the threshold. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting users are notified when the average time to load all the user’s enabled add-ons exceeds the threshold. This is the default.

This policy setting allows you to configure whether newly installed add-ons are automatically activated in the Internet Explorer 9 browser. Any add-ons that were activated in a previous version of Internet Explorer are considered to be the same as newly installed add-ons and are not activated when the user upgrades to Internet Explorer 9. In Internet Explorer 9 add-ons are defined as toolbars Browser Helper Objects or Explorer bars. ActiveX controls are referred to as plug-ins and are not part of this definition. If you enable this policy setting newly installed add-ons are automatically activated in the browser. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting newly installed add-ons are not automatically activated in the browser. Internet Explorer notifies the user when newly installed add-ons are ready for use. The user must choose to activate them by responding to the notification using Manage Add-ons or using other methods.

This policy setting allows you to disable browser geolocation support. This will prevent websites from requesting location data about the user. If you enable this policy setting browser geolocation support is turned off. If you disable this policy setting browser geolocation support is turned on. If you do not configure this policy setting browser geolocation support can be turned on or off in Internet Options on the Privacy tab.

This policy setting determines whether the user can bypass warnings from SmartScreen Filter. SmartScreen Filter warns the user about executable files that Internet Explorer users do not commonly download from the Internet. If you enable this policy setting SmartScreen Filter warnings block the user. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the user can bypass SmartScreen Filter warnings.

This policy setting prevents the user from managing SmartScreen Filter which warns the user if the website being visited is known for fraudulent attempts to gather personal information through “phishing” or is known to host malware. If you enable this policy setting the user is not prompted to turn on SmartScreen Filter. All website addresses that are not on the filter’s allow list are sent automatically to Microsoft without prompting the user. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the user is prompted to decide whether to turn on SmartScreen Filter during the first-run experience.