IE 5.5 wont automatically open index.html that's in a folder on my computer   

When I'm viewing a html file on my computer in IE 5.5 that has a link
to a another directory on my computer that has an index.html file in
it, IE dosen not open the index.html file. It instead lists the files
in that directory like regular Windos Explorer dose. Any way to get IE
to excute those index.html files instead of just listing them?

date: 5 Aug 2005 17:14:23 -0700   author:   unknown