Disable Allow This Webpage to Access Your Clipboard Pop-Up Warning Message in IE7

In you’re using Internet Explorer 7, there are several enhanced and tighten security features that have been incorporated into IE7. One of them been restricted Clipboard data access by websites and web pages. In Internet Explorer 7, both IE 7 installed on Windows XP or IE7 that comes together with Windows Vista, the behaviour occurs when you visit a website or webpage that tries to access the information stored in Clipboard’s memory, as Clipboard’s memory stored data can be sensitive and private. For security purpose, IE7 will pop-up a warning alert message as below:

Do you want to allow this webpage to access your Clipboard?

If you allow this, the webpage can access the Clipboard and read information that you’ve cut or copied recently.

You will then need to press or click “Don’t Allow” or “Allow” button to get pass the popup message.

This security feature can be disabled. To disable the pop up warning message about possible harmful or unauthorized Clipboard access, follow the steps below:

  1. Go to Tools -> Internet Options.
  2. Go to Security tab.
  3. Select “Internet” zone, then click on “Custom level…” button.
  4. Scroll down to “Scripting” section (at the bottom few).
  5. Under “Allow Programmatic clipboard access” option, check or select (tick) Enable. Default action for this option is Prompt, which cause the pop-up message whenever there is any attempt to access the Clipboard.
  6. Click Ok twice to exit from Internet Options.

Changing the preference to Enable for “Allow Programmatic clipboard access” option can increase security risk. You can set it to Disable to disallow all website’s access to Clipboard’s resident data. However, the better and more secure alternative is to edit the “Allow Programmatic clipboard access” setting for “Trusted sites” zone (steps same as above, only that you select “Trusted sites” in step 3 instead of “Internet”), and add the websites that you trusted and selected into Trusted sites zone.


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14 Responses to “Disable Allow This Webpage to Access Your Clipboard Pop-Up Warning Message in IE7”

  1. georgin
    November 10th, 2009 14:57
    14

    Thanks dude…

  2. Johan
    August 13th, 2009 12:09
    13

    Thank you :)

  3. natasha
    July 6th, 2009 16:06
    12

    worked 4 me!!!!! great…thnx

  4. RealGrouchy
    May 21st, 2009 05:02
    11

    I’ve just spent half an hour trying to figure out what that little prompt was that I accidentally dismissed with a keystroke. It must have been the prompt to disallow access to the clipboard.

    Now I can’t re-enable it on this page, and all the work I’ve done to get to this page (setting up a specific search in order to send a message to a subset of people on an internal list) is lost. Plus the time spent trying to figure it out.

    A string of expletives to whoever designed this irreversible “feature”.

  5. matt
    May 8th, 2009 05:01
    10

    Thank you so much, I am using a campus computer and they have alot of security features enabled. I was having trouble getting to a homework page that is due in 20 minutes, so you definately saved me.

  6. George
    February 11th, 2009 16:12
    9

    Thank you. Spent an hour looking for this.

  7. Seetharamarao
    January 4th, 2009 00:33
    8

    Working fine, Thanx allot.

  8. Ramesh
    December 31st, 2008 23:04
    7

    great!! thanks for the tip.

  9. Bryan
    April 30th, 2008 00:28
    6

    I was not able to update my wiki page on my work PC because this pop-up kept coming up even after I clicked yes. This fixed the problem, thanks!

  10. Chaitanya
    March 19th, 2008 05:42
    5

    Thanks a lot for your advice……….

  11. chris cottingham
    January 25th, 2008 09:33
    4

    Thanks so much

  12. anna
    June 21st, 2007 03:22
    3

    worked like a charm, thank you for the advice

  13. Drew
    November 28th, 2006 22:20
    2

    Thanks for letting me know! I accidently clicked to disable it.

  14. Andrea
    November 18th, 2006 02:46
    1

    re: IE7

    Hello,

    I downloaded IE7 and since so cannot access a certain website, I am not sure yet of all websites that require allow programmatic clipboard access. I have done the instructions on this site http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/09/25/disable-allow-this-webpage-to-access-your-clipboard-pop-up-warning-message-in-ie7/ and it did not work. I have rebooted, etc… so please if you can help me ;0) here is the site that I am trying to access http://wwww.reflectionscafe.ca/

    Thank you, Andrea ;0)

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