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Re: Windows Explorer trying to get out! Have you changed your folders to view as web page or saved any web pages to your folders recently?
Just highlighting any saved html pages in a folder will cause Explorer to go out to render the saved page if external links are present. You can remove IE completely and Explorer will still function in this manner.
The easiest way to stop it is to use the Windows Classic folder view.
I had this same problem - Explorer would access my designated DNS server and also their most frequently used gateway even though I have not selected to use a remote gateway.
MS Word will also do exactly the same thing and access my DNS and the same remote gateway when HTML content is present.
I was really paranoid about letting explorer out and went so far as replacing the program to be sure it wasn't corrupted.
I finally gave up worrying about Explorer and just blocked it with my firewall in addition to using the Windows Classic desktop and folder views which keep occurrences to a minimum. |
