title: File URI link to local folder in IE7 not working
body: <p>No matter what I do I <strong>cannot get either of these local File URIs</strong>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="file:///c:/"&gt;x&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="file:///C:"&gt;x&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="file:///C:\"&gt;x&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="file://C:"&gt;x&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="file:///C|/"&gt;x&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="file:///C|"&gt;x&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="C:\"&gt;x&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="C:"&gt;x&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="#" onclick="return window.open('c:\\');"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...to work. I've tried putting the site in different zones (Local Intranet, Trusted Sites), turning on/off Protected Mode and fiddling with the security settings for the active zone. I've also tried many variations of the URI. But when I click the links, nothing happens. No errors either.</p>
  
  <p><strong>The only working scenario is when the HTML file is opened from a file:/// location and has file:/// links in it.</strong> Obviously, this is no great help.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a workaround of some kind? There seems to be alot of contradictory information on the web about this.</p>