# Classic IE

Classic IE is a small plugin for Internet Explorer that:

- Adds a caption to the title bar so you can see the full title of a page
- Shows the security zone in the status bar
- Shows the loading progress in the status bar

See the full page title even when it doesn't fit in the tab:
See the progress and the security zone:

# Installation

When you run Internet Explorer for the first time after installing Classic IE, it may prompt you that a new add-on called ClassicIEBHO is installed and if you want to enable it. Click on the Enable button. If you don't get a prompt, go to Tools -> Manage add-ons and make sure ClassicIEBHO is enabled. After enabling the add-on, you have to restart Internet Explorer to activate the plugin.

# Settings

You can access the settings from Tools -> Classic IE Settings or from the Start menu. The settings control the color and the font of the caption, and what information to display on the status bar.
You can choose from seeing only the basic settings, or all available settings. Hover over each setting to see a description of what it's for. Type in the search box to find a setting by name.
Every setting has a default value. The default value can be constant, or it may depend on the current system settings. Once you edit a setting it becomes "modified" and is shown in bold. To revert to the default value, right-click on the setting.
You can save the settings to an XML file, and later load them back. Press the Backup button to access these functions. From there you can also reset all settings to their default value.
Press OK to store your settings. You need to restart Internet Explorer to apply the new settings.

# Administrative Settings

The settings are per user and are stored in the registry. By default every user can edit all of their settings. An administrator can lock specific settings, so no user can edit them. This is achieved by adding the setting to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OpenShell\ClassicIE registry key.
You may also wish to not lock the setting but only override its initial value. Do this by adding "_Default" to the name of the registry value.
The easiest way to know the registry name of a setting and its value is to modify it, and then look it up in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\OpenShell\ClassicIE\Settings.
Sometimes you may want to lock a setting to its default value, but you don't know what the default value is. Do this by creating a DWORD value and setting it to 0xDEFA.
There is also a global setting EnableSettings. Set it to 0 in the registry to prevent the users from opening the Settings dialog:
Editing the settings through group policies is also supported. Extract the file PolicyDefinitions.zip found in the installation folder and read the document PolicyDefinitions.rtf for more details.