My wife just observed that a website on my computer, which displayed a sidebar full of clickable links, showed up on her otherwise identical XP Pro machine without the links.

All that she saw in the same place on her machine was the ubiquitous little red X.

A quick check of her IE security settings via:

IE\Tools\Internet Options\Security\(any site)\Custom Level 

revealed that her computer is missing the entire 'Microsoft VM' section of these settings.

On my PC I have a section that looks like this:

Microsoft VM
    Java permissions
        Custom
        Disable Java
        High Safety
        Low Safety
        Medium Safety

On her PC this section is missing completely.

I got her to go to Windows Update, but the site-check didn't indicate that she was missing anything.  And running the command 'jview' on her machine brought an 'unknown command' response whereas on mine it got a page of details on the version number. 

Can anyone suggest how I can remedy this situation?

TX
 
Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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