IE7 and SharePoint

I installed IE7 on Monday to start testing how well the full release of the browser worked with SharePoint. Everything worked great except that I started getting the yellow dropdown box saying:

"This website wants to run the following add-on:'owsclt.dll' from 'Microsoft Corporation'. If you trust the website ...."

You can click and allow the add-on to run but there are quite a few of these add-ons that SharePoint tries to use and it would get old having to click to allow the add-on (or even just hearing the beap and seeing the yellow dropdown gets old quick). A quick fix that I found is that if you trust the owner of the SharePoint site you can add the site to your trusted sites and you'll never see the yellow dropdown box for that site again.

Here are the basic steps to add a site to your trusted sites:

1. Click Tools menu and then click Internet Options
2. Click the Security tab
3. In the 'Select a zone to view or change security settings' box, select Trusted sites
4. Click the Sites button
5. In the 'Add this website to the zone:' field, you should see the url for the SharePoint site. If not go ahead and add it to that field.
6. Click the Add button
7. Click the Close button
8. Click the OK button
9. You're done