Archive for the ‘Internet Explorer’ Category

Now this was one of those stupid things that Microsoft decided to add to their new OS, Vista. The UAC, or User Account Control. Man, what crap…. makes my job as a technician more annoying now.

I worked on a laptop with Vista Business installed. After introducing the pc to the windows domain, I proceeded to add the Domain Admins network group to the local Administrators group of the laptop. Nice!

After which, I noticed I could not access the windows updates through Internet Explorer. I did not have permissions. What!!??!?? I just added it… ok.

Then I noticed that Internet Explorer 7 would always start at the Runounce screen where I have to choose my default search engine. Ahhhhhhhhh!!

So what is the issue….. UAC!!!

This can actually be an easy one.

This is how I was able to fix and there are other solutions!

1. I was able to turn UAC off.

2. Go to start and type msconfig  and hit enter.

3. Select tools from the above tabs and select ‘disable UAC’ and reboot.

That was it… man, I hate this!

Well, I almost goofed up again…. well, actually I did, but I was just trying to fix it. I worked on a PC and attempted to install Internet Explorer 7, but the dang thing screwed up the PC. What else is new about Microsoft!?!?

The icon on the desktop resembled that of Internet Explorer 6, and when I would try to open the browser, it would just create a new shortcut on the desktop. What?!?!?

Well, after a few tries, this is what I did, and in these steps:

1. Right-click on IE icon and select to delete. Just click ‘OK’ at the next message to confirm.

2. From the Control Panel, open the ‘Add & Remove Programs’ list and from the list on the left of the window select ‘Add/Remove Windows Components’. At the Windows Components Wizard, uncheck Internet Explorer, and hit ‘Next’. This will go through the process of removing IE.

3. Run the Dial-a-fix tool, which you can find a link to here ->

4. Restart the PC. (So you may want to add this page to your favorites to come back to easily ; ) )

5. Download Internet Explorer 7 here, then proceed with install.

That is exactly what I did to resolve this issue. If you are having problems with installing the updates that you have downloaded for Windows XP, you can find a quick solution here - >

That’s it.

Don’t you hate that!??! Well, today I visited a client, still on dial-up, whose IE7 browser windows would close after closing out the Netzero spellcheck window.

I thought maybe closing out the spell check function would fix the issue. But!!? Always a but…

When opening a top headlines news site, the links would open up a new window with the rss feed and news article. When closing out the new window, it still closed all instances with the IE browser. INSANE!

I should have thought of it earlier, but his browser was full of toolbars. He never used them. So I disabled them one by one. Netzero had a qerky toolbar. Behold… the fix. Disable all toolbars, and re-enable them one by one, until you find the culprit. If the toolbar is that important to you, download the lastest one and install it after removing the old one from ‘Add/Remove Programs’ in your control panel. This assures you that most of the old install will not conflict with the new install.

Nice!

I received today what I thought was an odd request. To install a spell checker on the toolbar of IE7, (Internet Explorer). At first I thought the request didn’t make any sense…. but duh! Wouldn’t I need a spell checker myself if I had a BLOG.

So I searched for one using the trusty Google engine. I found several…. first one I tried I seemed impressed with because of all it’s bells and whistles offered. But it lacked one thing… a stupid icon on the toolbar for SPELLCHECKING.

I uninstalled the last version and continued down the list… Found it:  ieSpell

I installed it and immediately saw what I needed. The icon on the toolbar. It’s an old plug-in but works on most versions of Internet Explorer, even the latest.

Try it, you’ll like it.

Lesson learned here…. don’t always trust the first link in Google will always answer your questions or problems.