Saturday, January 9, 2010
How to Add More Search Engines in Internet Explorer 8
BY default, Internet Explorer 8 contains a textbox besides the address bar that has ‘Bing” in it. This textbox can be used to search data on the Internet and acts just like a regular search engine. The reason this feature has been added is to create a quicker means of searching data on the Internet, without requiring the user to visit the particular search site. To search a particular term using this search box, simply enter the search text in the textbox. Click the dropdown box near the textbox and select the search engine and click 'OK'. To add more search engines to this list simply follow these steps:-
- Click the drop-down box near the search textbox that lets you select the search engine of your choice.
- Click 'Find More Search Providers'. The Internet Explorer 8 Add-ons Gallery' page will be displayed with the list of supported 'Search Providers'.
- Click the 'Add to Internet Explorer' button that corresponds to the entry in the list that you would like to add as a search engine.
- A dialog box will appear on your screen with two checkboxes. Select both the checkboxes and click 'Add'. This will set the selected search engine as default.
To change the settings of the search provider, click the drop-down box near the search button again and select 'Manage Add-ons'. Select a particular search engine from the list and select the status. For instance, if you have just set 'Google' as the default search engine and wish to change it to Ask.com then click the entry in the list and click 'Set as default'. For added controls and settings you can right-click the name of the search engine and change settings such as sorting it, copying it or removing it from the list altogether.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Tweak Your Internet Explorer with IE Tweaker
IE Tweaker is a freeware tool,which will help you to tweak Internet Explorer.This utility that can help you fix several Internet Explorer issues and you can optimize your browsing experience.It has a great number of fixes/tweaks ( more than 90) that will help you to enable/disable any options with ease and without getting in to registry. IE Tweaker will be a great utility for those, who don’t want to play with the Windows registry.
Features
- Browsing Options:
· Allows you to disable/ enable Smooth Scrolling, Clear type font, Animation, Sounds, Picture Display, Automatic Image resizing - Clear Junk Files:
· This option will help you to quickly remove all the temporary IE files, cookies, history, passwords, and AutoComplete data. - Tweak IE:
· The Basic Tweaks tab offers you the basic tweaks such as Turn off/on Menu bar, Favorite bar, Tabbed browsing, Full screen mode, Caret Browsing support etc., · The Browser Menus window allows you to disable/enable the Browser Menus · The Toolbars tab helps you hide/unhide the various options on the bars and also the bars itself such as Status bar, command bar etc · The Control Panel window helps you hide/unhide the various tabs in Tools –> Internet Options. · The Advanced tab helps you to Turn off/on various options such as Compatibility view etc., and also allows you to change the IE Title, and Default download directory options. - Restrictions:
· The Restrictions tab provides you various restriction options such as Changing default search provider, Add-ons management, Auto complete features etc., · The Settings tab restricts the users to change various settings. · The Security window allows you to enable/disable options such as InPrivate Browsing, Filtering etc., - Repair:
· The Repair menu option provides you various options to repair/fix various issues that you have with Internet Explorer.
IE Tweaker | 152KB | Req:IE 8 & IE 7 & 32/64 -bit Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Win 7 | .NET Framework 3
Saturday, December 19, 2009
EU Approves Microsoft’s Browser Ballot
Microsoft has revised its antitrust-settlement with European Union regulators in response to complaints from browser makers.So Windows users will see a browser ballot screen that randomly lists the icons of the top five browsers upon every launch.Earlier Apple's Safari for Windows browser was slated to receive prominent placement on a "browser ballot".Complaints from Opera, Google, and Mozilla resulted in the change to random listing of browsers upon every launch.
The browser ballot screen will let European PC users download a third-party browser without having to use Internet Explorer . Microsoft’s browser dominance has eroded in recent years. Internet Explorer had 63.6 percent of the market in November, compared with 24.7 percent for Mozilla’s Firefox, 4.4 percent for Apple Inc.’s Safari and 3.9 percent for Google’s Chrome. Opera had 2.3 percent.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Fix MSE,IE&WU
You may have experience when you try to update Windows it refuses to do so. The update does not start at the scheduled time of which you have set it to update, and when you do it manually, all you get is the green progress bar going across the time and time again.Sometimes Update History still says they were successfully installed, but if you go into View installed Updates, they are not there .
When you click a hyperlink in an e-mail message or on a Web page, or right-click a hyperlink on a Web page and then click Open in New Window, you may experience one or more of the following issues:
- Nothing happens
- The new window may be blank
- You may receive a scripting error message
- When you use the Print command or the Print Preview command in Internet Explorer, nothing may happen.
- When you try to connect to Web folders, you may receive the following error message: "The current operation could not be completed because an unexpected error has occurred."
- Internet Options Advanced tab is completely blank.
- Internet Explorer About box version information is completely blank.
- Address bar search does not work.
- Unable to type in text boxes in a search engine or website
Recently Windows Club released 3 portable utilities for fixing Windows updates, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Security Essentials errors.
1.Fix WU Utility v1.0
Automatic Updates feature of Windows 7 and Windows Vista stops working due to the Registry clashes or missing DLLs.In case anytime, you find that you are facing any issues in running Microsoft Updates or Windows Updates due to any reasons, run this utility. This utility will re-register a total of 114 .dll, ocx and .ax files which are required for the proper functioning of Windows Updates.On completion, you will see a dialog box: The process completed successfully.
Fix WU Utility | OS:Windows 7 (x86 and x64) ,Windows Vista (x86 and x64)
2.IEFix
It is a general purpose fix utility , which repairs Internet Explorer using IE.INF method and also fixes the application path setting.It also registers the core Internet Explorer libraries properly.
When you run IEFix you'll be prompted for the Operating System CD or the Service Pack Files location.If you're using Windows XP, insert the Operating System CD. For OEM systems, point to the Operating System source path when prompted. If you've applied a Service Pack separately, you need to insert the Slipstreamed Operating System CD (if you have one) or point the installer to the ServicePack source path when prompted Mention the path as "C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386" or "C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles
If you don't have the Windows installation CD, and if the installation source files are not present in the hard disk, you may click Cancel . IEFix will continue with DLL registration part.You have to restart the system.
IEFix |OS:Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
3.Fix MSE Utility
This is a portable freeware utility to reset all the Registry and other settings of Microsoft Security Essentials to default value.
When you are facing any issues in running Microsoft Security Essentials due to any reasons, simply run this utility. This utility will restore all its registry values & service settings to known good defaults, without re-installing MSE. It also re-registers the concerned .dll and .exe files, required to run MSE properly. The utility may take only a moment to run, but rest assured, it does the job! It works on both 32bit and 64bit of Windows Operating Systems
Fix MSE Utility | SysReq: Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0,Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0|OS:Windows 7,Windows Vista,Windows XP
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Discover and Connect With Twitter Users Through Webpages With Kutano
The add-on lets users comment on the website and also allows users to search and 
Features
- View tweets about any webpage
- Join the discussion, reply, retweet
- View the popular pages on a website
- Doubles up as a full blown twitter client allowing you to update, view @mentions and DM as well as new followers and unfollowers
- Supports Firefox, Internet Explorer
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Make Web Print Easy with Printee for IE
Sometimes you want to print a web page, which contains a lots of ads, blank and other junk .It is always annoying to print such web pages. Repeat 'Copy' and 'Paste' to WORD for printing once and again is also cumbersome.
Printee for IE is an Internet Explorer add-on that enables you to print web pages the way you want. You can remove all images and backgrounds, selectively delete page elements such as advertising, navigation menus and other items that you don't want to print, and also change the font, width and page layout style. The result is a cleanly formatted page that only contains the content that you want to print.
Features
- Condense any web page down to just the content you want, no anything useless
- Reducing your paper and ink usage
- What You See Is What You Get
- Support Ecofont, Save 20% Ink
- Send by Mail, Share with friends
- Improve Readability of the Web Page only one key (Ctrl-G)
Restart Internet Explorer after installation, a button with green printer appears on the IE toolbar, as follows:
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Internet Explorer Collection 1.5.0.0
Internet Explorer contains multiple IE versions, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time. Conditional Comments work exactly the same as in the native versions. The original version number is shown correctly in the User Agent string. The version number can be found in the window title too.
Internet Explorer Collection also includes the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. This Explorer Bar provides a variety of tools which make troubleshooting websites easier. The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar is compatible with Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher when using Windows 2000 or higher
Internet Explorer Collection contains the following versions of IE:
- Internet Explorer 1.0 (4.40.308)
- Internet Explorer 1.5 (0.1.0.10)
- Internet Explorer 2.01 (2.01.046)
- Internet Explorer 3.0 (3.0.1152)
- Internet Explorer 4.01 (4.72.3110.0)
- Internet Explorer 5.01 (5.00.3314.2100)
- Internet Explorer 5.5 (5.51.4807.2300)
- Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2800.1106)
- Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2900.2180)
- Internet Explorer 7.0 (7.00.5730.13)
- Internet Explorer 8.0 (8.00.6001.18702)
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
IE - Customize Toolbar From Registry
THE Internet Explorer toolbar can be customized using the registry editor. A few simple commands can make some unwanted buttons and commands to disappear from the toolbar.
Once you have created these values,double-click them and enter the"Value" as "2".
The following are the value names to hide these buttons.
To make the buttons visible again simply double click an appropriate value and set the value to "1". You can also delete the DWORD value as an alternative.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Internet Explorer- Add to ‘Send to’ Menu
When you right-click on a file or folder,the context menu that appears displays a list of quick controls. One of these is the “Send to” function that directly copies the file to a selected location.By default, the file cannot be sent to “Internet Explorer”. Internet Explorer
can come in handy while opening files of different formats. With the right plug-ins installed you can open various applications like text documents, PDFs, images and fl ash files. This
saves you the time and CPU memory that is required to open different applications for such files. Here is how you can go about it
Internet Explorer is also capable of playing audio and video files if the right plug-ins are installed. Having a single window to quickly launch files without running the primary applications responsible those files, saves both your time and system resources from being used.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
How to Add Bing as Your default Search Engine
Microsoft has recently publicly launched their new search engine Bing.It provides very good general search results with high relevance, big index and quick speed .Bing add-on for the Firefox lets you add Bing to the list of search engines in the Firefox Search bar, if you are interested in trying out .
If you are using Internet Explorer 8,visit Add-ons Gallery or click the drop down menu of Windows Live Search, click “Find More Providers”
That will direct you Add-ons Gallery: Search Providers ,from there you add Bing
To add Bing in Chrome, go to Settings > Options and in the Basics tab click on Manage present under Default Search. Now click Add and give the name as ‘Bing’, Keyword as ‘Bing.com’ and URL as “http://www.bing.com/search?q=%s&go=&form=QBLH&scope=web“. Click OK and set Bing as default search by selecting “Make Default”.
