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Internet Explorer Keyboard Shortcuts - Added 7/26/02 Restoring Ability to Save Graphics as JPGs - Submitted 7/24/02 Quickly Access the Address Bar - Added 7/24/02 Removing IE Menu Items - Added 5/6/02 Download Source Files for All Operating System Versions of IE6 - Added 4/27/02 Changing Cookies Settings - Added 3/14/02 Changing the Internet Explorer Start Page - Added 2/3/02 Automatically Empty Temporary Internet Files - Added 1/22/02 Speeding Up IE If No Proxy Server is Installed - Added 1/8/02 Disabling Script Debugging - Added 1/8/02 Restoring the Default Window Size in Internet Explorer - Added 12/8/01 Changing the Default Sound in Internet Explorer - Added 11/17/01 Removing a Branded Logo from IE - Added 11/6/01 Using Your Own Style Sheet for All Web Pages - Added 8/18/01 Internet Explorer Control Panel Restrictions - Added 6/28/01 Not Being Prompted for Download Folder - Added 5/19/01 Seeing When a Web Page Was Last Updated - Updated 12/9/00 Displaying the Internet Connection Wizard - Submitted 12/9/00 Moving Backward or Forward with the Wheel Mouse - Submitted 11/12/00 IE Restrictions - Added 10/16/00 Automatic Entry of WWW and COM - Submitted 9/19/00 Forgotten the Content Advisor Password - Added 6/18/00 Downloading More than Four Files at a Time - Submitted 6/18/00 Getting and Explorer View of Your Internet Favorites - Added 2/22/00 Disabling the Ability to Add or Remove IE's Toolbars - Added 2/21/00 Specifying the Default Download Directory in Internet Explorer - Added 2/21/00 Disabling the Ability to Change the Default Download Directory - Added 2/21/00 Clearing Internet Explorer's AutoComplete Entries - Added 2/21/00 Starting Internet Explorer in Full Screen Kiosk Mode - Added 2/21/00 Creating Hidden URL Shortcuts - Added 12/28/99 Easy Way to Scroll Through Web Pages - Added 12/21/99 Internet Explorer Repair (IE5) - Added 12/21/99 Quick Way to Change the Security Settings (IE5) - Submitted 12/21/99 Importing and Exporting Favorites and Cookies with IE5 - Added 12/20/99 IE 5 Link Tips - Submitted 12/18/99 Adding a History Icon to your Desktop (IE5) - Added 11/9/99 Changing Internet Explorer 5.0 Settings - Added 6/12/99 Removing Lost IE Supervisor Password - Added 4/20/99 Change Font Size - Submitted 1/31/99 Opening Temporary Internet Files - Added 11/14/98 Quickly Opening a Newsgroup from your Browser - Submitted 8/14/98 Internet Explorer in Full Screen Mode - Submitted 8/11/98 Setting Internet Explorer Window Size - Added 7/11/98 Organizing Your Favorites - Added 6/27/98 Reordering Your Links (IE 4) - Added 3/29/98 Changing the Links Icon (IE 4) - Added 3/29/98 Changing the Search Pages Used by Internet Explorer 4.0 - Added 1/13/98 Having IE Load a Default Page Other Than BLANK.HTM - Added 10/19/97 Changing the IE and Outlook Title Bars - Added 10/11/97 Changing the Information Boxes in IE 4 - Added 10/11/97
Opening Links in a New Window - Submitted 8/9/97 Accessing your best Favorites - Submitted 7/29/97 Keeping Track of Bookmarks - Submitted 7/4/97 Changing Internet Explorer's Blank Page - Submitted 7/4/97 Increasing Viewing Space - Submitted 1/31/97 Changing the Directory for the Internet Explorer Cache - Added 1/15/97 Changing the Title Bar of the Internet Explorer - Added 1/15/97 Changing the Internet Explorer, Mail and News Bitmap - Added 1/15/97 Using Other Mail Packages with Internet Explorer - Added 1/2/97 Viewing Drives with IE 3.0 - Submitted 10/17/96 Changing your Favorites Location - Added 10/6/96 Adding IE3.0 Bookmarks to the Start Menu - Submitted 9/15/96 Adding Custom Links and Applications to Internet Explorer 3.0 Toolbar - Added 9/7/96 Adding your HTML Editor to the Internet Explorer 3.0 Toolbar - Added 8/16/96 Organizing Internet Explorer 3.0's Favorites - Added 8/16/96 Changing the Internet Explorer 3.0's ToolBar Background - Added 8/16/96 Re-Setting Internet Explorer to Save rather than Open Files Downloaded - Added 7/14/96 Turning off the underline of hot links in Internet Explorer 3.0 - Added 6/29/96 Starting the Internet Explorer with no initial Start Page - Added 4/21/96 Keeping Control of URL Bookmarks - 1/8/96
CTRL+R CTRL+F5 ESC CTRL+O or CTRL+L CTRL+N CTRL+W CTRL+S CTRL+P ENTER CTRL+E CTRL+I CTRL+H CTRL+click
version and your locally stored version are different Refresh the current Web page, even if the time stamp for the Web version and your locally stored version are the same Stop downloading a page Go to a new location Open a new window Close the current window Save the current page Print the current page or active frame Activate a selected link Open Search in Explorer bar Open Favorites in Explorer bar Open History in Explorer bar In History or Favorites bars, open multiple folders
Editing
Press this To do this CTRL+X Remove the selected items and copy them to the Clipboard CTRL+C Copy the selected items to the Clipboard CTRL+V Insert the contents of the Clipboard at the selected location CTRL+A Select all items on the current Web page
Submitted 7/24/02 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. If your Internet Explorer no longer allows you to save graphics as JPGs Go to Tools / Options Click on the Advanced tab In the Security section at the bottom, uncheck Do not save encrypted pages to disk Another solution may be to delete all your Temporary Internet files as well
Submitted by Tony
To change how the Internet Explorer deals with cookies: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Start Internet Explorer Go to Tools / Internet Options Click on the Privacy tab Click on the Advanced button From here you can select your cookie settings.
Added 1/8/02 If you want to disable Internet Explorer's displaying windows when there is a script error on a page, 1. 2. 3. 4. Start Internet Explorer Go to Tools / Internet Options Click on the Advanced tab Under the Browsing section, check Disable script debugging and uncheck Display notification about every script error
Added 8/18/01 If you want Internet Explorer to use your own style sheet for formatting: 1. 2. 3. 4. Select Tools / Internet Options Click on the Accessibility button Check Format documents using my style sheet Browse to the location of the style sheet you want to use
Accessibility = Accessibility settings Advanced = Advanced settings AdvancedTab = Advanced tab Autoconfig = Autoconfig settings Cache = Cache settings CalendarContact = Contact settings Check_If_Default = Check if IE default browser setting Connection Settings = Change Connection Type Certificates = Certificates settings CertifPers = Personal Certificates settings CertifSite = Certificates Publishers settings Colors = Colors settings Connection Wizard = Ability to run the Connection Wizard ConnectionsTab = Connections tab Connwiz Admin Lock = Connection Wizard administrative lockout ContentTab = Content tab Fonts = Fonts settings FormSuggest = Forms suggest setting FormSuggest Passwords = Passwords suggest setting GeneralTab = General tab History = History settings HomePage = Home Page settings Languages = Languages settings Links = Links settings Messaging = MS Messaging settings Profiles = Profiles settings ProgramsTab = Programs tab Proxy = Proxy settings Ratings = Ratings settings ResetWebSettings = Reset web settings SecAddSites = Security Add sites settings
SecChangeSettings = Security changes SecurityTab = Security tab Settings = Settings boxes Wallet = MS Wallet settings (IE 5.xx and newer)
If you want Internet Explorer to display the Internet Connection Wizard again: 1. Open Regedit 2. Go to this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Connection Wizard\Completed 3. Set the value to 0 Submitted by David Hallas Andersen
IE Restrictions
Added 10/16/00 You can restrict several settings in Internet Explorer 4.x and 5.x 1. Start Regedit 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Restrictions 3. Add a DWORD with a name of:
NoFileOpen NoFileNew NoBrowserSaveAs NoBrowserOptions NoFavorites NoSelectDownloadDir NoBrowserContextMenu NoBrowserClose NoFindFiles NoTheaterMode Disables Open command on File menu, CTRL+O, and CTRL+L. Disables CTRL+N Disables Save and Save As on the File menu. Disables Internet Options on the View menu (disables changing browser settings). No Favorites menu, adding to favorites, or organizing favorites. Prevents user from being able to select download folder by not displaying the Save As dialog box when a file is downloaded. Disables HTML context menu. Disable ALT+F4. Disables the F3 key. Disables the F11 key.
4. Give it a value of 1 to turn on the restriction 5. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Toolbars \ Restrictions 6. Create a DWORD with a name of :
NoToolbarOptions Disables adding, removing, or moving toolbars.
Normally you can add or remove IE's Toolbars (Standard Button, Address Bar, Links etc) To disable the ability to add or remove these toolbars 1. Start Regedit 2. Go to HKEY_USERS \ .DEFAULT \ Software \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Toolbars \ Restrictions 3. Create a DWORD value called NoToolbarOptions 4. Give it a value of 1 Now, although you can change what is on the toolbars themselves, you can add or remove any.
Submitted 12/21/99 To changing the Security Settings in IE5, simply double-click on the bottom right corner of the status bar. Your security settings pop-up. Submitted by Mike Kloss
IE 5 Link Tips
Submitted 12/18/99 1. In IE5 you can use the tab key to scroll through links on a page, then hit the Enter key to open the link. 2. You can also right-click a link, then choose to open it in a new window. 3. You can also right-click a down-loadable file and select save target to to start the download. Submitted by Mike Kloss
Enable Page Transitions - Can speed up page display if turned off Notify when downloads complete
Print background colors and pictures Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed
Now you can click on a file in that directory and open it without the warning.
1. Within your browser window (either IE4.X or Netscape 4.X) hit Ctrl+O which will bring up the open page window. 2. Type the following: news:"newsgroup name", (e.g. news:alt.invest) then hit Enter 3. The newsreader for the application will download the headers for that particular newsgroup. Submitted by Jim Himes
To change the little icon that appears next to a link: 1. 2. 3. 4. Right-click on the link Click on the Internet Shortcut tab Click on the Change icon button Select the icon you want to use
To Change the Outlook Title Bar 1. 2. 3. 4. Start Regedit Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express Add or edit the string value WindowTitle (there is no space) Add the text you want to appear
Network Neighborhood My Computer Control Panel Printers The Internet My Documents Recycle Bin Briefcase Internet Explorer Dial-Up Networking
If you have many favorites that you frequently access, but their names areat the end of the alphabet. I rename my "favorite" favorites with a letter and space like this: A Microsoft Knowledge Base B Microsft Home Page This way they are at the top of the list of favorites for easy access. Submitted by Curtis A. Domsch
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Give it a value of the BMP file you want to use You can include the full path The size should be approximately 32x32 but the tool bar will grow to accommodate the size This will change the bitmap that is used for Internet Explorer, Internet Mail and Internet News
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders 3. Double click on Favorites in the right hand panel 4. Enter the new location 5. Click on the OK button 6. Do the same for the User Shell Folders section a few lines down 7. Close Regedit 8. Create the directory you just pointed to 9. Copy any existing Favorites to that location 10. Be sure to include all folders 11. Start the Internet Explorer
The next time you start the Internet Explorer 3.0, a Edit icon will be on the toolbar. If you selected your HTML editor, when you click on that icon, your editor will be started and will load the current web page.
prompted and the file will automatically be opened. You also do not see the "Always ask..." box again so you can uncheck it. To reset Internet Explorer back again: 1. Start Regedit 2. Go to Hkey_Classes_Root \ exefile 3. Change the EditFlags value from d8 07 01 00 to d8 07 00 00