Removing the Shortcut Arrows
Remove the Documents Folder from the Start Menu
Disable Scandisk on Boot Up
Disable the Shut Down Command
Removing Suspend from the Start Menu
Adding Options to the Right-Click of the Start Menu
Fast Access to the Desktop
Removing Programs listed from the Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs Section
Creating Hidden URL Shortcuts
Easy Way to Scroll Through Web Pages
Internet Explorer Repair (IE5)
Quick Way to Change the Security Settings (IE5)
Importing and Exporting Favorites and Cookies with IE5
IE 5 Link Tips
Adding a History Icon to your Desktop (IE5)
Changing Internet Explorer 5.0 Settings
Removing Lost IE Supervisor Password
Change Font Size
Opening Temporary Internet Files
Quickly Opening a Newsgroup from your Browser
Internet Explorer in Full Screen Mode
Setting Internet Explorer Window Size
Organizing Your Favorites
Reordering Your Links (IE 4)
Changing the Links Icon (IE 4)
Changing the Search Pages Used by Internet Explorer 4.0
Having IE Load a Default Page Other Than BLANK.HTM
Changing the IE and Outlook Title Bars
Changing the Information Boxes in IE 4
Opening Links in a New Window
Accessing your best Favorites
Keeping Track of Bookmarks
Changing Internet Explorer's Blank Page
Increasing Viewing Space
Changing the Directory for the Internet Explorer Cache
Changing the Title Bar of the Internet Explorer
Changing the Internet Explorer, Mail and News Bitmap
Using Other Mail Packages with Internet Explorer
Viewing Drives with IE 3.0
Changing your Favorites Location
Internet Explorer Keyboard Shortcuts
Adding IE3.0 Bookmarks to the Start Menu
Adding Custom Links and Applications to Internet Explorer 3.0 Toolbar
Adding your HTML Editor to the Internet Explorer 3.0 Toolbar
Organizing Internet Explorer 3.0's Favorites
Changing the Internet Explorer 3.0's ToolBar Background
Re-Setting Internet Explorer to Save rather than Open Files Downloaded
Turning off the underline of hot links in Internet Explorer 3.0
Starting the Internet Explorer with no initial Start Page
Keeping Control of URL Bookmarks
If you want to create shortcuts to your favorite URLS but don't want them to show in your Favorites folder:
An easy way to scroll through web pages is with the spacebar.
The spacebar will scroll down a page
Shift-spacebar will scroll up a page
With IE5 there is a way to do a repair in case the installation has gotten corrupted.
To changing the Security Settings in IE5, simply double-click on the bottom right corner of the status bar.
Your security settings pop-up.
Right-click on an open area of the desktop
You can change some of the default IE5 settings from the Tools / Internet Options / Advanced / menu
Some of the items include:
If you forgot your Supervisor Password for the Internet Explorer, you can remove it by:
In IE4, hold down CTRL and use the mouse wheel to increase/decrease font size quickly.
Normally when you try to open a file in the Temporary Internet Folders directory, you get a warning:
Running a system command on this item may be unsafe. Do you wish to continue?
To remove this warning:
Now you can click on a file in that directory and open it without the warning.
This is a tip for quickly reading a newsgroup without having to download the whole news file which can take quite some time and
be rather large.
If you know the name of the newsgroup you want to read:
Press F11 to resize windows to a full screen in Internet Explorer 4.0
When you click on a hyperlink in Outlook or Outlook Express, it will automatically open Internet Explorer
Sometimes this may be in a small window.
To increase or change the size, click on the Restore button, the middle one in the upper right hand corner of the
toolbar.
Resize the window and then close the Internet Explorer
The next time you click on a hyperlink, it will open to the size you set.
With IE4 or Win98, a shortcut to an easy way to organizing your favorites is to press Ctrl-B
while the Internet Explorer is running.
This brings up a box where you can create or delete new folders, re-order folders, sort folders, as well as import and
export your favorites.
To change the little icon that appears next to a link:
Changing the Search icon Engine
When you click on the Search icon in IE4, you go to the default page of http://home.microsoft.com/search/search.asp
To change this setting:
Changing the Go / Search the Web Engine
Normally, if a web site can't be found, IE will load the file C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\BLANK.HTM
To have it load another file:
To change the IE Title Bar:
To Change the Outlook Title Bar
With IE4, when you place the mouse over My Computer, Network Neighborhood, and the Recycle Bin icons,
etc.
a small window opens with some information.
For example, over the My Computer icon, it starts with Use My Computer to view the contents of your computer.
To change this text:
Items you can change are:
Hold down Shift and point with the mouse on a link.
A new IE opens automatically with the new page.
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.
Bookmark Tip:
For Netscape users; To better keep track of what you found where simply add a "note" to your bookmark.
To do this; highlight a bookmark, select ITEM, select PROPERTIES and in the NAME box to the bookmark's actual name add your
"note".
Such as "Great game software, neat utilities Etc."
Explorer users may be able to do a similar thing.
Tired of looking at the page "BLANK.HTM" whenever Internet explorer can not connect to a site on the internet.
Try this simple trick to make this page remove itself whenever it is displayed. You will however still receive a error message telling you that you could not connect to the site.
All you need to do is to edit the file: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\BLANK.HTM until it looks like this:
<html>
<head>
<title>Microsoft Internet Explorer</title>
</head>
<body>
<script language="JavaScript">
window.close("blank.htm", "Microsoft Internet Explorer")
</script>
</body>
</html>
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To get more viewing space in for web browsing, just go to Options and uncheck Text labels and Links.
Click OK then highlight the bottom of the toolbars and shift them up.
By default, the Internet Explorer creates four directories Cache1-4 where it places all the HTML pages, graphics, AVI's
etc that you view
If you want to move this location or even have only one cache that points to a directory of your choice:
This can be useful if you want to delete the files often. You can then just delete the files in the single directory
By default, the title bar on the Internet Explorer says Microsoft Corporation Internet Explorer
To change this to the text of your choice:
If you want to change the bitmap that is in the upper right hand corner:
To change the Internet Explorer to use another e-mail package than Exchange when sending mail:
You can go to you hard drive or run applications by typing their path into the Internet Explorer address bar.
For example try typing C:\ into the address bar and watch what happens. Is this signs of things to come from IExplorer?
Note from Bob: - You can also view resources on servers the same way.
For the URL enter a UNC such as file://server/share
You might want to change the location where the Internet Explorer looks for your store Favorite sites.
This can come in useful if you have multiple operating systems (Windows95 and NT 4.0) and want to share
the save set of Favorites or you simply want to have greater control over where you favorites are stored.
Here are a few IE keyboard shortcuts:
Along the toolbar are several default links, Best of the Web, Today's Links etc.
To change the URL and description to your preference:
Addition I never would have thought of.
Make one of these links point to a hard drive (C:\, D:\)
When you click on it, you get an Explorer type view of that drive.
He uses it to create folders on the fly to download software into.
You can add your favorite HTML Editor, or any other program, to the Internet Explorer 3.0 toolbar.
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.
An easy way to organize all your Favorite web sites is to hold the Shift key down
while selecting Favorites / Organize Favorites.
This will show you all the sites and folders. It makes it easy to move sites and create new folders.
If you want to change the background on your Internet Explorer 3.0 toolbar:
When you try and download a .EXE file with Internet Explorer, you are prompted to "Always ask before opening this type of
file".
If you uncheck this box, the next time a EXE file is about to be downloaded, you will not be 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:
Internet Explorer 3.0 has no setting for turning off underline of hot links.
It can be done in the registry. In HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
change the value of "Anchor Underline" to "no".
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs
has the URLs which appear when you click the arrow in the Address window.
By default, the Internet Explorer always loads a startup page.
This can add time starting the program, especially with a modem.
To start with no Startup Page:
If you remove an installed program and its files by deleting the files,
it may still show up in the Add/Remove programs list through the control panel.
In order to remove it from the list (so you don't need to re-install in order to just remove it again).
This will only delete them from the list, not delete the actual programs.
Only programs designed for Windows95 will show up here in the first place.
To get an Explorer view of the Desktop
To add an option to the Right-Click of the Start button:
A good option to add is an MS-DOS Prompt:
Try this c:\command.com /k cd %1
It also puts the shortcut on a regular folder.
This command will open a DOS window with that folder as the current directory.
Disable the Shut Down Command (Windows 9x and NT)
This option allows you to stop users from being able to shutdown the computer, by disabling the shut down command.
Remove the Documents Folder from the Start Menu (Windows 98 and NT)
This key will remove the recent Documents folder from the Start Menu.
Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
Value Name: NoRecentDocsMenu
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Data: (0=disable, 1=enable)
Disable Scandisk on Boot Up (Windows 9x)
If Windows 9x is shutdown incorrectly, or the turn power turned off without shuting down, the system will attempt to run
Scandisk on the next boot. You can control whether Scandisk doesn't run, prompts whether to run, or runs automatically.
1. Change the attributes for MSDOS.SYS so it is not 'Read Only', MSDOS.SYS is found in the root directory of your C:\ drive. Open the file using Notepad or another text editor (not Microsoft Word or any word processor).
2. Change the value of 'AutoScan=' to:
AutoScan=0 : Scandisk is Disabled
AutoScan=1 : Scandisk Prompts First
AutoScan=2 : Scandisk Runs Automatically
3. Changes will take place on the next reboot.
Note: This feature is only available on Windows 95 OSR 2 and greater.
Removing Suspend from the Start Menu (Windows 9x)
If the Suspend option doesn't work as it should, or you simply want to remove the option from the Start Menu, then use this
tweak.
Open your registry and find the key and value below.
Change the value of 'APMMenuSuspend' to equal '00', restart the machine and the suspend option should have disappeared.
| Registry Settings: |
| Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum\Root\*PNP0C05\0000]
Value Name: APMMenuSuspend Data Type: REG_BINARY Data: (00 = not visible, 01 = visible) |