For those of you out there that are smarter than me ... and after yesterday's post, I'm thinking that there are a *lot* of you ... You probably noticed that I was a little confused between the effects of IE7 protected mode (Low Rights IE or LoRIE), the VS 2005 SP1 release and the debugging problems that I was experiencing on Vista.

I've known about IE7 protected mode, sandboxing and virtualization for many months now and was even cognizant of that when I was having my debugging problems. I even glanded down at the bottom bit of the IE chrome and noticed "Protected Mode: On", but for some reason I thought http://localhost would *not* be affected by the protected mode. I was dead wrong. Arghh.

So, the answer to the basic debugging problems that I was having w/IE7 on Vista are entirely solved by adding http://localhost as a trusted site in IE7. Remember to uncheck the "https://" checkbox when adding the site, or else you won't be able to add http://localhost.

There are a bunch of other blog posts on the subject if you are interested.