To start with, I know this isn't a recommended solution.
However, I have 22 machines running Windows 7 x64 that sit behind a very restrictive firewall and have access to only two websites. I've set both sites to be "trusted" and configured the trusted sites to be as exposed as possible and disabled certificate checks as well. Still, the machines take 60 seconds to load the page. Wireshark shows many attempts to access GoDaddy and other certificate sites.
Very long story short: I need to turn off EVERY SINGLE security feature baked into IE9. Everything. Active X features, certificate checks... all of it. I need the browser to go directly to the site and run anything and everything that site asks of it, no questions asked.
Anyone got any ideas?