My notebook computer operating system software (Windows XP) became
corrupted a few weeks ago. The IT expert at the office I work at
helped me wipe the existing software off the hard drive and reinstall
the operating system, along with some of the applications that I'd
been running prior to the problem starting. Prior to doing the
reinstallation, I backed up pretty much all data and so I saved all
that.

But some things still have to be restored. I save all my web-based
email as HTML documents. I'm currently using Windows Internet
Explorer 7 as my normal browser (no editorials, please!)

Starting with IE5 or IE6, some security feature of Microsoft's
software blocks me from opening/viewing saved HTML documents.
Somehow, I figured out how to prevent that from happening by changing
a setting in IE7 - maybe a security setting?

Of course, now I can't remember what I changed in the settings, so I
can't view the HTML documents I've saved. Do you know what I have to
do to stop IE7 from automatically blocking viewing of HTML documents
I'm trying to open?

Thanks for any advice!

-phillip (on behalf of a US military officer and friend who is
stationed overseas)