Showing posts with label Internet Explorer. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Internet Explorer. Show all posts

Improve, Enhance, Make Better Browsing Experience With Internet Explorer

Tweak Internet Explorer to Enhance Speed

Most Internet Explorer (IE) users complain about its slow speed, and how much time it takes to start up, and load web pages. However, a few tweaks will ensure that your IE experience becomes twice as fast. This article will tell you how to carry out these minor modifications – all you have to do is follow the steps listed out below.
IE Tweak 1
  1. Launch Internet Explorer, and select the option Tools -> Internet Options.
  2. Select the Advanced tab.
  3. In the Settings field, scroll down to the heading called Multimedia. There, you have to clear the check-boxes next to the following options (as per your preference):
    1. Play animations in webpages
    2. Play sounds in webpages
    3. Show pictures
  4. Click on Apply, and then OK.
However, the problem with this tweak is that it will greatly restrict your internet experience – all at the cost of speed. This might not be an attractive option to many.

Online Password Manager for Chrome, Firefox and IE

If you looking for an online password manager which supports almost all the popular browsers like Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari then try out Lastpass. With this free online password manager, the login details like username and password which you have already stored in Firefox can now be easily (and securely) accessed in Chrome, Opera, and on my iPod with a simple little button.

Features and Performance


Lastpass performs well in capturing passwords from ajax forms which other browsers fail to do so.
Allows you to import from every major password storage vendor and export too.
Create strong and different passwords for all sites (you only have to remember one).
Mobile access at http://m.lastpass.com

Security (most important part)


Passwords are locally encrypted and stored on your PC with AES, then uploaded to allow syncing with other computers or browsers. Only your LastPass password can unlock your data.

Install LastPass, Firefox addon

    Fix Slow Tab and Broken Tab Issues in Internet Explorer 8

    There are many users who upgraded to the latest version of Internet Explorer, i.e. Internet Explorer 8. But they are experiencing issues with tabs not working properly or taking a very long time to load. It seems for majority of the users the issue can be attributed to a problem related with actxprxy.dll not installing and registering properly during the upgrade of the browser. If you are facing a similar problem while using Internet Explorer 8, then fixing this issue is very simple. You have to run just a single command. To resolve this issue: 1. Click on the Start Button, and then click Run. 2. In the Run… dialog box, type regsvr32 actxprxy.dll 3. Click OK, and then click OK again when you receive the following message: “DllRegisterServer in actxprxy.dll succeeded“. 4. Reboot your computer for the tab issue should be resolved.

    How To Delete A Particular Web Address In Internet Browser History

    Well this post of mine is just a simple help for those who are newbies to computers. Below is a simple procedure to do it : To delete a single page, open your Internet browser and click on the drop down menu in the address bar. Now select the link that you want to delete, just highlight it and press shift+delete from your keyboard. Simple !!!

    How To Set Up Proxies In Your Browser

    This is a small Tutor - try it out! =================================== How to set up proxies in your browser, (!!!!be anonymous and make the passes last longer...!!!!!! =================================== In Internet Explorer =================================== Click "Tools", then "Internet Options", the in the "connections" Tab, click the "LAN Setup" Button in the bottom. There is a "Proxy Servers", tick the "Use a proxy....." and then enter the proxy in the bigger textbox and the port (the part that comes after the ":") in the smaller textbox. Hit okay, and then go to CODE www.whatismyip.com to see if the proxy is now your IP. =================================== In OPERA =================================== Click "Files", then "Preferences", then "Network", then click the button "Proxy Servers", tick "HTTP", fill in with the proxy:port, click okay and that's it! Don't forget to check with CODE www.whatismyip.com =================================== In Firefox =================================== Tools -> Options Then click the General Icon Then the "Connection Settings..." button Then click the "manually configure proxies" radio button, and enter the proxy address and port in the HTTP Proxy area. Don't forget to check with CODE www.whatismyip.com CODE www.proxy4free.com www.safeproxy.org www.megaproxy.com www.guardster.com www.silenter.com www.anonymizer.com Happy Anonymous surfing! To be clear: if I give you 255.255.255.255:8080, that means 255.255.255.255 is the proxy and 8080 is the port To Optain Fresh and new proxies, you can always check Google...

    Adding the Internet Explorer Icon to the desktop in Vista

    By default, the icon for the Internet Explorer 7 does not show up on the Vista desktop To add it back in again, a registry edit is needed. Just copy the below code and paste in notepad and save it as anyname.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel] "{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000 Then log off and back on again.

    Increase the Browsing and Downloading speed in Windows Vista

    With windows Vista you have noticed the slow internet speed. The web browsing and downloading speed is very slow as compare to previous versions of windows. You can open the same sites in windows XP and server 2003 with the normal speed. Follow the given steps to increase the Vista browsing speed: First go to Advance tab in Internet Explorer settings and turn off the TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption option. Here to fix problem with some secure pages turn on the SSL 2.0 (Secure Sockets Layer) feature and click Ok button to close it. Follow the major fix for this problem: In windows Vista, the TCP autotuning feature is enabled by default. Some web servers do not respond properly to this feature, so it appears that some sites open with very slow speed. To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights. First click on Start button and type CMD in Run option then press Enter. At Command Prompt, type the following command and press enter. netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel= disabled This command will disable the TCP autotuning feature. Now close the command Prompt and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect. You can easily restore these setting by typing the following command at Command Prompt. netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel= normal Now close the command Prompt and again restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

    Enabling right click on sites that disable it

    Enabling right click on sites that disable it Lots of web sites have disabled the right click function of the mouse button... it's really, really annoying. This is done so that you don't steal (via right-click->save picture) their photos or images or any other goodies. Unfortunately, it disables ALL right-click functionality: copy, paste, open in new window. It's easy to change, assuming your using IE: Click "Tools"->"Internet Options" Click the "Security" tab Click "Custom Level" Scroll down to the "Scripting" section Set "Active Scripting" to "disable" Click "Ok" a couple of times. You'll probably want to turn this back to "enable" when your done... 'cause generally the javascript enhances a website.

    Gmail Fast Login

    Works in Internet Explorer, Opera & Firefox. For low speed connections logging in to gmail could becomes an irritating task. You must have experienced gmail login problem especially on a dial up connection. Login in to gmail is comparatively slower because of its rich user interface, because of that sometimes the gmail login screens gives an error. And in orkut also sometimes the login box does not appears and says “connection timed out” or “server not responding” kind of messages. Following are some tips and tricks to login into gmail faster even with low speed internet connections. Gmail login tricks - Use HTML version of gmail instead of standard version. You can access to gmail’s HTML version directly from this url http://mail.google.com/mail/h/ - Also try gmail mobile version It is very lo-fi version of gmail but the speed of logging in really fast, it is opening instantly on my system. The mobile version of gmail login page is simple, fast and furious. So no more gmail login problems now. http://m.gmail.com

    CHANGING THE MAXMTU FOR FASTER DOWNLOADS

    There are four Internet settings that can be configured, you can get greater throughput (faster Internet downloads) by modifying a few settings. They are the MaxMTU, MaxMSS and DefaultRcvWindow, and DefaultTTL 1.Open RegEdit (Start>run>regedit) 2.Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlset\ Services\ Class\ net\ 000x (where x is your particular network adapter binding.) 3.Right click on the right panel 4.Select New\String Value and create the value name IPMTU 5.Double click on it and enter then the number you want. The usual change is to 576 6.Similarly, you can add IPMSS and give it a value of 536 (Windows 9X)You can set DefaultRcvWindow, and DefaultTTL by adding these string values to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ System\ CurrentControlset\ Services\ VXD\ MSTCP Set the DefaultRcvWindow to 5840 and the DefaultTTL to 128 Note: These settings will slow down your network access speed slightly, but you will probably not even see the difference if you are using a network card. If you are using Direct Cable you should see a slight difference.

    Make Internet Explorer Faster

    This way is more useful for some people who have a dial up connection. This is work for both Dial up and ADSL connections it makes your internet explorer Browser loads web pages more faster. METHOD 1 1. click start > run 2. type regedit > enter 3. browse folder HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ InternetSettings 4. right click @ windows right > New > DWORD 5. type MaxConnectionsPerServer > you can set value (the higher the number, the more good speed you get, eg : 99) 6. create another DWORD >type MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server 7. then put a high value as mentioned above 8. then, restart IE, finished. METHOD 2 Dont automatically play animations or videos - Animations and videos are usually absolutely ample files to download. Absolutely often, in fact, I ascertain that I dont even wish to see them. How to make it: On the card bar, bang on Tools, again on Internet Options on the card that appears. A new window will arise alleged Internet Options. At the top there are six tabs. Bang on the one on the appropriate that says “Advanced.” Scroll down to the area that says “Multimedia.” This should be about halfway. Uncheck the two options beneath Multimedia that says “Play animations” and “Play videos.” Bang on the OK button to abutting the window, and restart Internet Explorer. Reduce the admeasurement of your page history - Your page history (the account of pages you get while youre accounting in a URL) takes up amplitude in anamnesis that is allocated to Internet Explorer. Freeing up that anamnesis makes your absolute arrangement run faster and makes it accessible for Internet Explorer to advance added anamnesis for apprehension pages, appropriately authoritative pages arise faster. How to do it: On the card bar, bang on Tools, again on Internet Options on the card that appears. A new window will arise alleged Internet Options. Towards the basal of the window should be a band that says “Days to accumulate pages in history:” After that is a box with a amount on it. Bang on the box, backspace to annul the absolute number, and blazon in a baby number. I usually use 1. Bang on the OK button to abutting the window, and restart Internet Explorer. Don’t automatically download images - The aspect of web pages that takes the longest time to download is images. If you about-face off this advantage and about-face on addition one, you can still get the accustomed anatomy of web pages, but after the cat-and-mouse for images to download. Usually, the a lot of advantageous advice is in argument form, anyway. How to do it: On the card bar, bang on Tools, again on Internet Options on the card that appears. A new window will arise alleged Internet Options. At the top there are six tabs. Bang on the one on the appropriate that says “Advanced.” Scroll down to the area that says “Multimedia.” This should be about halfway. Uncheck the advantage beneath Multimedia that says “Show pictures” and analysis the advantage that says “Show angel download placeholders.” Bang on the OK button to abutting the window, and restart Internet Explorer. Empty Temporary Internet Files binder if browser is closed - Doing this helps save a lot of harder drive space, and aswell makes surfing faster back your computer isn’t searching through so abounding pages to acquisition out if the adapted page is already in the cache. How to do it: On the card bar, bang on Tools, again on Internet Options on the card that appears. A new window will arise alleged Internet Options. At the top there are six tabs. Bang on the one on the appropriate that says “Advanced.” Scroll down to the area that says “Security.” This should be the basal section. Analysis the advantage that says “Empty Temporary Internet Files binder if browser is closed.” Bang on the OK button to abutting the window, and restart Internet Explorer. Dont save encrypted pages to disk - This has a bifold benefit. First, it saves your computer the time and accomplishment of extenuative pages to the Temporary Internet Files folder. Plus, it makes abiding that there’s no almanac on your harder drive of defended web pages, which are the ones that are acclimated for passwords and such things. How to do it: On the card bar, bang on Tools, again on Internet Options on the card that appears. A new window will arise alleged Internet Options. At the top there are six tabs. Bang on the one on the appropriate that says “Advanced. Scroll down to the area that says “Security.” This should be the basal section. Analysis the advantage that says “Don’t save encrypted pages to disk.” Bang on the OK button to abutting the window, and restart Internet Explorer.

    Use Microsoft Calculator to surf Internet

    How to access the internet via your standard Microsoft Calculator? When your browser(s) is/are messed up for some unexplainable reason* 1. Open your MS Calculator. This is normally found in Start => All Programs => Accessories => Calculator. 2. Open the help-window by pressing the F1 key. 3. Click the top-left corner icon of the help window once (Standard is a Document with a yellow Questionmark). 4. Select Jump to URL... 5. Type your address into the avaliable field, but remember to type http://, and not just www. (or equivalent). 6. Have fun!

    Block websites without any software

    Steps

    1] Browse C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

    2] Find the file named "HOSTS"

    3] Open it in notepad

    4] Under "127.0.0.1 localhost" Add 127.0.0.2 www.orkut.com , and that site will no longer be accessable.

    5] Done!

    example :

    127.0.0.1 localhost

    127.0.0.2 www.orkut.com-

    www.orkut.com is now unaccessable

    For every site after that you want to add, just add "1" to the last number in the internal ip (127.0.0.2) and then the addy like before.

    ie:

    127.0.0.3 www.yahoo.com

    127.0.0.4 www.msn.com

    127.0.0.5 www.google.com

    This also works with banner sites, just find the host name of the server with the banners and do the same thing with that addy.

    Hope this small tutorial could keep you going in simple way of blocking websites..

    Customize Internet Explorer's Title Bar (Revised)

    Open Registry by going to Start then Run and Enter regedit. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet. Explorer\Main. In right hand panel, right click and create new string value and name it as "Window Title" and inside that write whatever you want....