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Disabling debug option

Go to Tools > Internet Options and click the Advanced tab. Go to the Settings option under Browsing and check the boxes 'Disable Script Debugging' and uncheck 'Display a notification about every script error'. This will disable the debug option if you get an error on a page.

I don't use the Radio toolbar. How do I disable it?

Internet Explorer 5 includes a Windows Radio toolbar that provides streaming radio playback. By default, the Radio toolbar is not displayed when the browser is started. To enable or disable the Radio toolbar when the browser is started, follow these steps in Internet Explorer: On the Tools menu, click Internet Options. Click the Advanced tab and under Multimedia, click the Always Show Internet Explorer Radio Bar check box to select it (Uncheck the box to deselect this option). This option displays the Radio toolbar, provided you enabled it by clicking Toolbars on the View menu and then clicking Radio.

How can I save my bookmarks online?

There are quite a few utilities out there on the Net, which allow you to manage your bookmarks online. One such site is www.myhq.com, which allows you to import and edit your bookmarks online. You can even synchronise your bookmarks and share them with other users using a utility called BookmarkSync as well as add bookmarks from your Palm! For that you have to first register yourself at www.syncit.com

How to make pages viewable offline

When you add a site to your bookmark list, you may want to view the page offline too. For this, you have to use the bookmarks option. Go Favorites > Add to Favorites. Choose the folder you want the page to be bookmarked in. Above the Name field, check the box, 'Make available offline'. You can also choose advanced features such as the level of links in that page that will be downloaded, as also how you want to synchronize the page when you are connected. You can even change the settings you have made to any bookmark when you select Organise Favorites in the Favorites Menu.

Different file saving options

There are different ways in which a Web page can be saved: a) as a text file, b) as an HTML only page, c) as a complete Web Page (.htm, .html file) and d) as Web page archive (.mht file) When you save a Web page as Text File: The page text is saved as a text file and the hyperlinks in the page are lost. HTML: This saves the page without the images and sounds. The hyperlinks are clickable but they do not go to the page on the Net as their path changes to your local folder. Web page complete: A folder with the same name as the .html file is created in the target folder. This folder contains page contents such as images and sounds. The links to embedded content in the Web page are re-written to point to the contents of this new folder. Absolute links such as a hyperlink to another Web page are not re-written. As long as the folder is kept with its corresponding .htm file, the open file includes those images and sounds. Web archive: The Web page saves this information in Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension HTML (MHTML) format with a .mht file extension. All relative links in the Web page are remapped and the embedded content is included in the .mht file, rather than being saved in a separate folder.

How to make IE the default browser

Open Control Panel and double-click on Internet Options. Within the Programs tab, check the box which says 'Internet Explorer should check to see if it is the default browser'. Now, try opening any HTML file, select it, then keeping the [Shift] key pressed, right-click on the file. Select Open With... and in the Open With dialog box choose the browser program you want it to open in. Check the box at the bottom, which says 'Always use this program to open this type of file'.

Problems with IE title bar

If you have Hotbar and it shows its own custom title, you can change it. First, make sure that Hotbar is disabled at startup. Go to Start > Run and type msconfig. This will open the System Configuration Utility. Click on the Startup tab and in the list of programs, uncheck the box for the Hotbar Program. This will prevent it from running on startup. Now, you can start making any changes to the Explorer title bar. Open the Registry Editor (Start > Run, type regedit). Go to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main In the right pane, either double-click on the Value name 'WindowTitle' and edit the Value Data or create one. To create a value, right-click anywhere in the empty portion of the right portion, and click on New > String Value. Name it WindowTitle. Double-click on it to add a Value Data. Here add whatever title you want to appear in IE, for example CHIP RulZ!! and click OK. Close the registry after you make the changes and open a new browser window to view the change. You may have to even restart to let the change take place.

My home page has changed to gohip.com. Even after changing the home page from Internet Options, it returns. How do I remove it?

Go to www.gohip.com/remove_browser_enhancement.html and download remove.exe. Save remove.exe to your desktop, and run the file by double-clicking on it. Then reboot your computer.

Disabling Autocomplete in IE

Every time, I type a URL or a username, IE gives me a drop down list of all the previous entries beginning with that letter. This is very annoying. Can I stop this from happening? Open IE and go to Tools > Internet Options > Content. In Personal Information, click on Autocomplete. The Autocomplete Settings dialog box opens up, which allows you check/uncheck options for Web addresses, forms, usernames and passwords.

Changing IE's Look

Can I change the look of my Internet Explorer without having to download programs that will do that for me? You can change the look of your toolbar if you want to without downloading any skins. You can have your own bitmap shown on the Internet Explorer toolbar. This involves using the registry editor. Open the registry and navigate to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar In the right pane, right-click and add a new string value, or modify the existing value, named BackBitmap for IE4 or BackBitmapIE5 for IE5. To change the Value Data, double-click on the ValueName (BackBitmap) and then set the value to the path and name of bitmap file you wish to use (for example, C:\WINDOWS\CLOUDS.BMP). Close the Registry and restart Internet Explorer for the changes to take effect.

Disabling IE Content Advisor password

The supervisor password for Content Advisor is held in the registry. That is why uninstalling and reinstalling IE will not fix it. Go to the key as shown below: HKEY_ LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\Windows\Current Version\Policies\Ratings There will be a value name on the right pane, labelled 'key'. That key holds the encrypted Content Advisor Supervisor password. Delete that key. That will set the Content Advisor Password to blank. Then you can go to Tools > Internet Options > Content and disable the ratings.

Changing activity logos

When I browse the Internet using Internet Explorer, a logo is displayed indicating whether activity is taking place. Can I change this logo? There are two bitmap files used to display the animated logo. Both can be identical except for their size. One has to be 38 pixels wide and the other 22 pixels. Using an image editor such as MS Paint, create an image where equal-sized frames are stacked vertically within the one larger image. For example, a large icon, with 10 frames, would be 38 pixels wide and 380 pixels high. When the logo is animated, the top frame is shown first, then the next and so on, until the last frame, then the image loops. When the application is idle, then only the first frame is shown until there is any activity. That is unless an alternate non-animated logo has been defined using the technique below. Once you have created the icons you need to register them by opening a key in your registry. Open the registry editor and locate the key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar Then create two new string values (right-click anywhere in the right pane and select New > String Value), or modify the existing values, named 'SmBrandBitmap' (small image) and 'BrandBitmap' (large image). To modify, select the value, right-click and select Modify or double-click on them. The new values should be equal to the full filename of the small (22 pixel) image and large (38 pixel) image, respectively.

If you want to use your own non-animated logo

These images are shown when the application is idle. Like the method above there are two images, one small 22x22 pixel and a larger 38x38 pixel. To activate them, navigate to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main and create two string values named 'SmallBitmap' and 'BigBitmap'. Set their values to equal the filenames of the images. To reset to the default logos: To restore the default animated logo, delete the 'BrandBitmap' and 'SmBrandBitmap' string values found under the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar.

To restore the default idle logo:

Delete the 'SmallBitmap' and 'BigBitmap' string values found under the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

Invalid page fault in kernel32.dll error with IE

There are many reasons why this error occurs. Some of the reasons and the corresponding solutions are given below: · There could be DLLs on the desktop. These could even be hidden. If there are DLLs on the desktop, just move them to some other location. Also search for a DLL by the name Advert.dll. If found, rename it to some other name. · Your IE's internal Java Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler is enabled, and the Web page you are loading contains a Java program that is incompatible with the compiler. Go to Tools > Internet Options > Advanced. Just uncheck the option, 'Enable Java JIT compiler'. See if the error is resolved. · Another reason could be that the Web page you are loading contains active content that is not functioning properly. Try disabling this option in IE. Go to Tools > Internet Options > Security, and then click the Enable ActiveX Controls And Plug-Ins check box in the Active Content area to clear it. · There could be a problem with your display card. Try reinstalling the card drivers as a last resort.

IE5 Repair Tool

You can use the Internet Explorer Repair tool to diagnose and help fix problems with Internet Explorer 5 and above. The Repair Tool can identify problems with Internet Explorer that are caused by files that are out of date. It tries to fix problems that are caused by the incorrect or incomplete registration of Internet Explorer files and restore or repair the desktop or Start menu shortcut commands for the browser that have been deleted or do not function properly. To use the Internet Explorer Repair Tool, go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs. On the Install/Uninstall tab, select Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, click Add/Remove, click 'Repair the current installation of Internet Explorer', and then click OK. If Internet Explorer 5 is not listed in the Add/Remove Programs, you may be able to start the tool from the command prompt: Go to Start > Run, type rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE5Maintenance "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Setup\SETUP.EXE" /g "C:\WINDOWS\IE Uninstall Log.Txt" and click OK. This command is case sensitive.

IE setup never completed

This could be because Windows was not restarted after installing or updating files that were in use by Windows. Some program installations or updates need to replace files that are currently in use by Windows. Some files cannot be replaced while Windows is running. Windows must be restarted so that these files can be updated during the initial startup of Windows before they are loaded into memory. Internet Explorer 5 detects that these operations are pending and cannot be installed until these operations have been completed. Restart Windows and run Internet Explorer 5 Setup again. If you receive the error message again, try restarting Windows again. After Windows has restarted, run Internet Explorer 5 Setup. If restarting Windows does not help then try renaming the Wininit.ini file, restart the computer, and then run Internet Explorer 5 Setup. If this also does not fix your problem then try cleaning the Temporary Internet Files folder and the Temp folder.