10 reasons why you should switch from Internet Explorer 6

"Every so often, people ask me why they should upgrade to Internet Explorer 7, the newest version of the venerable Microsoft web browser. They're happy with Internet Explorer 6—it does what they want it to do and they're comfortable using it. Some are nervous about upgrading because they feel they don't have time to learn a new way of doing things. Others believe that because they only use their computers to check their e‑mail and visit "safe" sites, they don't need to upgrade. (...) For me, the most compelling reason to upgrade is the improved security. The Internet of today is not the Internet of five years ago. There are dangers that simply didn't exist back in 2001, when Internet Explorer 6 was released to the world." (Sandi Hardmeier, Microsoft MVP)

10 reasons to switch from Internet Explorer 6:

1. Switch to a more secure browser.
2. Get a faster browser.
3. Web pages will look better.
4. Use a browser that it's not closely integrated with your operating system.
5. Try a browser that has native support for Ajax.
6. Open less windows by using tabs.
7. Get a search box without installing toolbars.
8. Get anti-phishing protection.
9. Web developers will thank you.
10. If IE6 is no longer a popular browser, developers will spend more time releasing new features.

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Determine file size before downloading it

If you going to download a file from internet then you can find out its size before downloading only when it is mentioned on the download location else you have to start downloading then only you can find out actual size of a file.For most of the hi speed broadband internet users it doesn't matter much but for internet user like me who have slow internet connection which download bigger size data only during night or for night plan user this matters a lot since they can queue up bigger files to download during nights.

But if you want to know the actual size of file even before starting the download even though it is not mentioned on downloading site,Then there is a internet explorer plugin get file size [download] which checks the file size before downloading it and shows you the exact file size before downloading.

Get File Size will show you the date when the file was last modified, file type, server response time and estimated download time. Get File Size can also retrieve the dimensions of JPG, GIF, PNG and BMP images without downloading the whole image.

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Some of the useful Internet Explorer shortcut keys

Here is the list of some the most widely used internet explorer short cut keys.These can be quite use full if used properly.

F5 - Refresh current page, frame, or tab.

Ctrl + (- or +) - Increase or decrease the font size, pressing '-' will decrease and '+' will increase.

F6 - Go to address bar.

F11 - Display the current website in full screen mode. Pressing F11 again will exit this mode.

Esc - Stop page or download from loading.

Ctrl + Enter - Quickly complete an address. For example, type google in the address bar and press CTRL + ENTER to get http://google.com.

Ctrl + D - Add a Favorite for the page currently opened.

Alt + Left Arrow - Back a page.

Backspace - Back a page.

Alt + Right Arrow - Forward a page.

Ctrl + I - Display available bookmarks.

Ctrl + N - Open New browser window.

Ctrl + P - Print current page / frame.

Ctrl + T - Opens a new tab.

Ctrl + F4 - Closes the currently selected tab.

Ctrl + Tab - Moves through each of the open tabs.

Spacebar -Moves down a page at a time.

Shift + Spacebar - Moves up a page at a time.

Alt + Down arrow - Display all previous text entered in a text box and/or available options on drop down menu.

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How to open accidently closed recent tab in Internet explorer 7

Firefox,opera provide the facility of recovering the recently closed tab in their browser windows but internet explorer has no such kind of function.However, there is a free add-on of just 225KB for Internet Explorer called IE7 Open Last Closed Tab that does just performs this.This gives the functionality of opening last or recently closed tab like opera or Mozilla Firefox.

After installing it, you can open closed tabs by pressing the Alt and X keys together. It also supports a Quick Tab Style View, appears when you hit Alt-Q, which gives you thumbnails of the previous tabs you’ve closed.It is similar to the built-in IE Quick Tabs, but it is for previously closed tabs.You can then click on the thumbnail of the page you want to open in a new tab.

This is nice tool for the internet explorer lovers or better to say users.Here we have a funny graphical comparison of top web browsers including opera, firefox ,internet explorer.

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Remove traces of your internet history permanently

However both Mozilla FireFox and Internet explorer provide the facility of removing the traces of your Internet history like deleting cookies,saved passwords,history etc.but they remove all that temporarily means that even after there removal,these cookies,passwords, user names ,website history is still in the system.It might be present in registry or somewhere else.

Now you don't have to worry about these traces because a freeware utility named IE Privacy Keeper can remove each and every traces of your Internet history.IE Privacy Keeper is a simple, fast, and efficient browsing-history cleaner for Internet Explorer and Mozilla FireFox. It automatically cleans up all traces of your Internet activity when you close the browser or shut down the computer. IE Privacy Keeper can correctly clean up the index.dat files without the need for a Windows restart. It also cleans up your system activity (recent documents, MRU lists).

Features of IE privacy keeper:

• Cleans up Internet Explorer and Mozilla FireFox history
• Cleans up index.dat files without the need for a Windows restart
• Keep selected items
• Cleans up your offline activity traces
• Cleans up custom folders and registry keys
• Automatically cleans up when IE or FireFox exits
• Various notification methods
• Secure deletion

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How to start your web browser without addons

If your recently installed add on is causing the improper behavior of your Web browser then it is better to use your web browser with out add ons.By this way you can find out whether the problem lies in the add on or any other thing was responsible for that improper behavior of your web browser and most important thing about add ons is this that you should avoid add ons while performing online transaction.

Here is the method of using web browsers without add ons.

For Internet Explorer:

• Go to Start > Run
• Type iexplore -extoff
• Press Enter

For Mozilla Firefox:

• Go to the Run dialog by going to Start > Run
• Type firefox -safe-mode
• A window will popup asking things that you want to disable or reset (eg: reset/disable bookmarks/toolbars, etc.)
• Give the right choices, and press ‘Restart’ for the changes to take effect

Or you can just go to start menu and you will find out the safe mode option of Mozilla FireFox (see image).


and if you are facing "orkut is banned you fool, The administrator didn't write the program guess who did? Muhahaha!!!" or "I didn't hate Mozilla but use IE or else" problem with FireFox then you can remove them by this simple method.This is among the minor problems with the FireFox.

You can also have a look at graphical comparison of top web browsers with and without add ons.

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Browse internet without any web browser

Now you can open any website without any web browser in your system.Well this can help you when there is no web browser in your system.In some of companies and Institution Browser are uninstall from the computers so that their employees cannot browse any website. But now you can surf any website on that PC without any Browser.

Just follow these steps-

1. Open a notepad or Calculator or Paint anyone application in you pc.
2. Go to the Help section and Click Help Topics.
3. After the New Window Comes, Left Click on the icon in the top left corner.


4. Click on the Jump Url and write the web add of your fav site ( Full add with http:// ) there.



Now click Ok and Your site will open within a seconds.

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Internet Explorer crashing after installation of Service Pack 3

Some of Tech Buzz reader informed me about the constant crashing of internet explorer after installing windows xp service pack 3 RC.When i tried to use internet explorer after installing service pack 3 then i also got the same problem "Internet explorer has encountered an error and needs to close".Then i searched the internet for the solution of this problem.I found many users complaining about the same issue.


After searching a lot about this issue i found the solution of this problem.This all was happening because of Urlmon.dll.For resolving this issue you have to edit your registry and my advice is that take the back up of your system registry before editing it.

1.Open Notepad
2.paste this code below into it

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_PROTECT_DECOMPRESSION_FILTER_FROM_ABORT_KB942367]
“*”=dword:00000001

3.save the file with ".reg" extension like "abc.reg"
4.Double click on it to add it to registry.It will ask you “Do you want to add the information to the Registry?” click ok.
5.Restart the computer.

This will solve your problem

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Download internet explorer 8 beta 1 along with new features

Here is the link to download the Beta version of much awaited (?) Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 which has passed the Acid test(?) along with the list of new features.

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How to surf internet when Web browsers are blocked

How to deal with the situation when web browsers including internet explorer,mozilla firefox , opera are blocked.it is a quite difficult situation. Sometimes, public terminals and computers are designed to do just that, even with an Internet connection. Luckily, there is still a way to surf the web without using any major web browsers with a rather sly method: using the Microsoft Windows Help Menu. Here’s how to access the Internet without an actual web browser.
1.First, open any common application such as notepad or calculator. These simple programs are most likely not blocked.
2.Once opened, press F1 (Default Windows Help Shortcut) or Help -> Help Topics. Here, you will see the basic help menu.
3.Afterwards, right click on the title bar and choose “Jump to URL…” from the drop-down menu.
4.Finally, a Jump to This URL window will come up, allowing you to type in any URL to go to.

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How to view passwords that are in asterisks

This is normal security feature that when you type a password in designated area then it is converted into asterisks and even if you are typing your password in front of a person who is viewing your computer screen , he can't guess the password.

But if you want to view password letters which were converted into asteriks then you have to use a software for this purpose Revelation is a free utility that can be used to reveal passwords which are behind the asterisks.

All you have to do is run the software and drag the crosshair to the password field. The password will then be visible in the English form. is a that free utility which can be used to reveal passwords which are behind the asterisks. All you have to do is run the software and drag the crosshair to the password field. The password will then be visible in the English form.

This freeware utility is quite effective in internet explorer while it disappoint in the case of mozilla firefox.It is very small, just 218 kb in size.

Download [Revelation ]

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1000+ Keyboard short cuts for windows,Mac,web browsers and top web services

I tried to write some important key board shortcuts but i found them very large in comparison to a blog post so i decided to provide their link in this post.enjoy them.

1.This is a list of the most common keyboard shortcuts in Firefox, and the equivalents in Internet Explorer and Opera.

2.List of Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts

3.List of the keyboard shortcuts that are available in Windows XP

4.Powerpoint keyboard tutorials

5.Google calender keyboard short cuts

6.Gmail keyboard short cuts

7.Yahoo mail keyboard short cuts

8.Google Docs & Spreadsheets keyboard short cuts

9.Google reader keyboard short cuts

10.Wikipedia keyboard short cuts

11.Blogger keyboard short cuts

12.Remember the milk keyboard short cuts

13.pandora keyboard short cuts

14.MSN keyboard short cuts

15.AIM Mail keyboard shortcuts

16.Windows vista keyboard short cuts

17.orkut keyboard short cuts

Since the orkut keyboard are very few,so i am mentioning them here also

* Home: Ctrl + Shift + H
* Scrapbook: Ctrl + Shift + S
* Communities: Ctrl + Shift + C
* Friends: Ctrl + Shift + F
* Edit Profile: Ctrl + Shift + E

18.adobe Photoshop keyboard short cuts

19.Google desktop keyboard short cuts

*Ctrl + Alt + G or Windows + G : Focus the cursor in the search box of Google Desktop Deskbar, Sidebar, or Floating Deskbar.

*Shift twice :hide or display undocked gadgets, and to bring any hidden gadget to the front of your screen.

*Ctrl twice :Instantly make the search box appear.

I hope i will continue to update this list as i found new links for key board short cuts.Please provide me some feedback about these sources.

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Make your web browser more safe before performing a transaction online

Some of the user might consider their web browser like Mozilla firefox,internet explorer etc. safe while performing online transactions even when they have add ons installed on them.Do you know that some of the add ons might be a hole in your web browser security.

If you have ever done online banking ,paid your house hold utility bills from your internet bank account ,or you may have used your credit card to purchase something from online products websites like ebay,amazon etc. then you might be aware of risk of security breach while doing these online money transactions.

So to minimize this risk you should use your web browser in safe mode.Some of you might ask a question "is there any safe mode for web browser ?".Yes it is there.You can enable them by following these simple steps.



USE FIREFOX IN SAFE MODE:

1. Right click on the FireFox shortcut
2. In the target path append -safe-mode
For Example: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -safe-mode

3. Now start firefox with this shortcut you had changed and select the check box which says: Disable All Add-ons

USE INTERNET EXPLORER IN SAFE MODE:

Internet Explorer 6.0 always runs without add-ons by default even then you can view the add-ons currently enabled in your internet explorer by the procedure given below.

1. File Menu>>Tools>>Manage Add-ons
2. In the opened window you can enable / disable add-ons.

If You are using Internet Explorer 7 then to start IE7 without add-ons follow the procedure given below

1. Press Window+R
2. Type iexplore -extoff or append -extoff as shown below in the path of the ie7 shortcut.
3. "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -extoff

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A must have add on for Internet EXplorer 7 ! IE7 pro

IE7 pro is a add on that your internet explorer must have.Add ons are not much familiar with internet explorer means we usually heard about add on for mozilla firefox but IE7 Pro is quite usefull in this case.

IE7Pro is a must to have add-on that will take your browsing experience with IE7 to the next level. The add-on has tons of useful and powerful features and it tempts me to move away from Firefox, my favorite browser.

This add-on has over 15 powerful features and are as follows:

* Tabbed Browsing Management
* Web Accelerator
* User Agent Switcher
* Webpage Capturer
* AD Blocker
* Flash Block

* Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform
* Support for User created Plug-ins
* Spell Check
* Inline Search
* Super Drag Drop
* Crash Recovery
* Proxy Switcher
* Mouse Gesture
* Tab History Browser

Brief overview of IE7Pro add-on

• The super drag and drop features lets your submit the selected text to a search engine of your choice.
• To configure the features of IE7Pro, you can either use the IE7Pro preferences in the tools menu to access some of the options or via the IE7Pro icon in the status bar of Internet Explorer.
• Proxy switcher feature lets you switch between different proxy servers of your choice and availability.
• IE7Pro lets you save screen shot of an entire page as an image. This is of one my favorite features in IE7Pro.
• Ad blocker in IE7Pro blocks unwanted ads and makes your browsing experience better.

This makes me think if Microsoft doesn’t has enough people to create these features as defaults in browser or they just don’t have innovative thought process? Anyway!

To download IE7Pro, click here. Or, visit the website of IE7Pro or forum, in case you need some help.

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