Internet Explorer Tips and Tricks

How to remove IE Tools Menu Items
You can remove items on the Tools Menu, for example those left over by uninstalled applications
1- Click Start Menu > select Run, type "regedit" (without quotes) to run Windows Registry Editor.
2- Find and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Extensions
3- Delete any of the keys you don't want to show
4- Close Registry Editor and reboot your computer.


How to see page last updated date
You can easily determine when a web page was last updated.
Enter "java script:alert(document.lastModified)" in the Address bar (without quotes )

How to download more than four files at a time
By default you can only download four files at a time
1- Click Start Menu > select Run, type "regedit" (without quotes) to run Windows Registry Editor.
2- Find and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
3- change the MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server to whatever number you want
4- Change the MaxConnectionsPerServer to whatever number you want
5- Close Registry Editor and reboot your computer
Note: it is not recommended if you use dialup internet connection


How to repair Internet Explorer, if hyperlinks does not work
Click Start menu > click Run and type" regsvr32 urlmon.dll"(without quotes) and press ok

Internet Explorer useful shortcuts

ALT+HOME Go to Internet Explorer Home page
F5 or CTRL+R Refresh the current Web page only if the time stamp for the Web
ESC Stop downloading a page
CTRL+W Close the current window
CTRL+E Open Search in Explorer bar CTRL+I Open Favorites in Explorer bar CTRL+H Open History in Explorer bar
ALT+D Select the text in the Address bar
F4 Display the Address bar history
HOME Move to the beginning of a document
END Move to the end of a document




Note: Incorrectly editing the registry may severely damage your system. before making changes to the registry, make a backup copy

This post has been edited by soleimanian: Feb 20 2006, 08:14 AM

For those who still persist in using Internet Explorer (some people will never learn ).
--> http://www.getfoxie.com/ <--
It ads some nice features to IE to improve security and some other things. Note, I'll repeat, it improves security, but it doesn't mean IE is completely secure (you can only have that feature when you shutdown windows ).

Thanks soleimanian

Lol, It's just I'm too scared to go into the registry
As I have deleted a file I wasn't suppose to a couple of months ago

thanks wutske for the link and soleimanian for the IE tips. I still prefer Avant Browser over Firefox

thanks for all that guys great help

GR8 tips... thanks...

By the way... a tip from me

But it is limited to only those with BROADBAND!

Broadband users can speed up their browsing and downloading by 20%

How?
Well...

Go to Start> Run, type "gpedit.msc"(without quotes)

Get it..
Now....
In the "Computer Configuration"
goto Administrative Templates>Network>QoS Packet Scheduler...
Now in the window on the left...

Double Clik "Limit Reservable Bandwidth">Enabled>Set value to "0"!
That's it......
You're DONE!!!!!!

To users interested in that, there is a topic on this subject,titled "Increase Your Bandwidth by 20%".

Trick One Please Dont try this at home lolz
Open control panel icons from Internet Explorer by typing "Control Panel\<name of control panel item>". For example, if you wanted to open the system properties from Control Panel you could type "Control Panel\System".

A Common Trick you should have known
Automatically enter the www. and .com into an Internet Explorer's address by typing the name of the page and pressing CTRL + ENTER on the keyboard. For example, if you type computerhope and then press CTRL + ENTER you will automatically be sent to the proper page.

Another Lame Trick for Power Users lolzz
Disable animated pictures commonly animated GIF pictures in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 by clicking Tools and selecting Internet Options. From Internet Options click the Advanced tab, within this window under Multimedia uncheck the box Play animations in web pages. but you cannot disable flash and java stuff.

Quickly increase and decrease the size of a font on a web page by holding down the CTRL key on the keyboard and scrolling up or down with the wheel on a wheel mouse.
i hope these trick should also work on IE 7..

How you can kill those annoying popups
There's a keyboard shortcut to kill annoying browser pop-ups. You can use either CTRL+W or ALT+F4. The former just drops the popup and the later will shut down the browser instance. Please dont try this at home :)lol

this will display which sites you visit the most with Internet Explorer 6.
Curious abt which websites you visited the most in the last couple of weeks? Unless you have disabled your Internet Explorer 6 history function, you can do the following:

1. Open up Internet Explorer 6.
2. Press CONTROL-H to open up the "History" pane.
3. Click on the "View" pull-down and choose "By Most Visited".

The top site in the list is the most visited website. To see how many times you have visited a particular site, right-click on a site and choose "Properties".

I agree firefox Is the best browser