If you have used a PC on a corporate network you have likely had to add a website to your trusted sites list because it just would not work otherwise. After a while, you end up with a jumble of sites in your trusted sites list so how do you move those to a new PC without retyping them?

Like most everything else in Windows, there is a rapid technique you can do so in the registry by backing up a single key.

What Are We Backing Up Again?

For those of you that Don did not know what we say, if you go to the Security tab in the browser, you will see the Trusted Sites icon in the list.

Selecting this icon, and click the "Sites dialog that allows you to add or remove sites from this zone.

Backing Up Via Regedit

Start>> search or run box>>regedit.exe>> navigate down to the following key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains

Right-click on the Domains key and select Export, and then give the file a useful name. You can then move it over to any other computer you would like.

Importing the Backup

It is as simple as double-click on the file on any PC that you want to restore the list to. Consider that it will be possible to destroy the current information on the machine you are restoring more and replace them with backup.

As you can see, I was able to take the backup file from my Vista machine and restore it onto my XP machine:

This is probably most helpful for somebody in IT….Simple technique to add all the corporate web application just once to the trusted sites list.