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Create Website Shortcuts on your Windows desktop

Just like one has desktop shortcuts for your oft-used programs, files or folders you can also create shortcuts to open your favorite websites. While I have tried this on Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1, this works for all versions. [...]

Clipboard Data Theft – Harden security setting in Internet Explorer

In and prior to Internet Explorer 6, the browser could actually let websites silently read the data stored in the Windows Clipboard. With Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft finally addressed this security hole which allowed malicious websites to read and steal [...]

Fix: Cannot open particular website in Internet Explorer

You have your work set up for the day but find the bank website you want to access fails to open. You are at a loss to understand what has turned the website hostile. Clueless about the problem, you keep [...]

Change download location in IE, Chrome, Firefox, Opera

In this post we will see how to change the download folder location to Desktop or any other location in Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera in Windows 8. By default, most browsers download files from the Internet to the [...]

Enable or Disable Data Execution Prevention DEP for Internet Explorer only

If a code loading from the default heap or stack is detected by DEP or Data Execution Prevention, an exception is raised. It happens since the behavior is indicative of malicious code (legitimate code does not generally load in this [...]

Add Search Providers to Internet Explorer

When it comes to choosing a search engine for getting information from the wide world of web, most of us rely on search engines like Bing, Google, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo!, Ata Vista, etc. Microsoft’s proprietary browser – Internet Explorer by default, adds Bing [...]

10 best Internet Explorer add ons, extensions & plugins for 2014

Internet Explorer 11 is fast & secure and comes with improved features and functionality. There are still many users having IE as their default web browser. But its lack of extensive support for third-party add-ons and extensions have made users [...]

Fix: Scripts are usually safe. Do you want to allow scripts to run message

When it comes to security settings, it seems like Internet Explorer (IE) shares different options in comparison to other browsers. In the old editions of IE, you might have noticed the error warnings with many webpages. There; IE mentions on [...]

Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 enhanced with Bing & MSN released

As it has done in the past, this time too, Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 11 enhanced with Bing & MSN. This version of Internet Explorer 11, supports Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit and integrates with Bing and MSN seamlessly, [...]

Reading View feature in Internet Explorer Modern UI version

Most users are aware of the versions of Internet Explorer offered in Windows 8. For those, still struggling to find the difference there are two versions of Internet Explorer provided with the newest OS- Internet Explorer Desktop version Internet Explorer Modern [...]

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Fix: Target of Internet Shortcut is not valid error For IE

Many a times we create shortcuts of our favorite sites, using Internet Explorer or any other browser. These shortcuts are generally in .url, .website, .htm format. In case you face a situation, where in spite of clicking on the web shortcut, [...]

Fix: Cannot open link in Internet Explorer new window or tab

If you find that nothing occurs after you click a link and that you cannot open a link in Internet Explorer new window or tab, then this article may interest you. Or sometimes it may happen that a new tab [...]

Fix: PDF Files will not open in Internet Explorer 10 | 11

Internet Explorer 10 & 11 are considered as the best possible versions of Microsoft‘s proprietary browser; Internet Explorer. With Windows 8 as well as Windows 7, you can use IE 10 and IE 11. Well in both these iterations, some [...]

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Fix: Credential Manager not working properly in Windows 8 | 7

As far as saving of web passwords are concerned in Internet Explorer, Credential Manager is the built-in tool in Windows, which IE uses to store credentials. However, I have noticed that on many of the sites, IE doesn’t provides me [...]

Fix: Send to OneNote add-in not working in Internet Explorer

If you have installed Microsoft Office 2013 or Office 2010, the OneNote application adds a browser extension or add-in to Internet Explorer – Send To OneNote. This add-in gets installed when Office uses the Click-to-Run technology. Send to OneNote add-in [...]

Fix: Internet Explorer address bar autocomplete http:// not working

If you type, say thewindowsclub or any other address for that matter and notice that the address bar does not save it, making you type the same address manually, every time you intend to visit that website, there’s some problem. [...]

Recover Lost or Forgotten Internet Explorer Passwords with IE PassView

Internet Explorer stores the passwords, which you have chosen to save, in encrypted form. Earlier it used to store in the Registry but now it uses the Credentials Manager. While you can always use the built-in Credentials Manager to manage [...]

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