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BROWSERS, IE 30+ & Netscape
Some may also be used in win95, win98, winnt 4.0.
IE 40 address bar & auto type.
  • AutoComplete feature will fill in the rest.
    • IE 40 Auto Incomplete.
  • AutoComplete feature fills in URLs.
    • Add your own Channels.
  • Add a local HTML file to the Channels bar.
    • Change Channels.
  • Clear your channels bar.
    • Select Your Search Engine.
  • Change the default Web search engine.
    • Beware of IE 40 install.
  • IE 3.02 doesn't detect version 4.0.
    • Delete address tool bar entries.
  • Delete address tool bar entries.
    • Remove profiles in netscape.
  • Remove additional profiles in netscape.
    • Remove URL`s.
  • Remove the URLs that IE remembers.
    • Auto Complete Pause.
  • cursor seems to have a
    delay between entering fields.
    • Enable Javascript
  • Enable Javascript in Browser.
    • Default Browser
  • Setting Default Browser.

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  • For a site you've previously visited, you can type an incomplete URL into Internet Explorer's Address bar, and the browser's AutoComplete feature will fill in the rest.
    However, it only searches for entries with .com, .org and .edu extensions by default.
    You can edit the Registry to make it also search for .gov and .net URL extensions.
    Run Regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\UrlTemplate . You'll find six strings with these value names and data:


    1 "www.%s.com"
    2 "www.%s.edu"
    3 "www.%s.org"
    4 "%s.com"
    5 "%s.edu"
    6 "%s.org"


    Select Edit/New/String Value and add the following values and data:


    7 "www.%s.net"
    8 "www.%s.gov"
    9 "%s.net"
    10 "%s.gov"

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    Auto Incomplete.

  • Annoying when IE4's AutoComplete feature fills in URLs for you on the address bar, you can turn it off by selecting View/Internet Options . Open the Advanced tab, and in the Browsing section, remove the check mark from the box labeled Use AutoComplete.

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    Add your own Channels.

  • To add a local HTML file to the Channels bar, open C:\WINDOWS\ FAVORITES\CHANNELS and create a shortcut to any HTML file.

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    Change Channels.

  • IE4's channel bar comes loaded with shortcuts to channels from Microsoft business partners.
    You can easily clear them off your channel bar by selecting Channels from the toolbar, highlighting each channel, then right-clicking and picking Delete from the Context menu.
    You can also make any Web site a channel by browsing to the site and then dragging and dropping the URL icon from the address bar to the channel bar.

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    Select Your Search Engine.

    ( have you backed up your Registry )

  • You can change the default Web search engine that IE 4.0 opens when you select Find/On the Internet from the Start menu.
    Run Regedit and open the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer \Main key.
    Double-click on SearchPage and in the Value Data box , enter the URL of the search engine you want.

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    Beware of Internet Explorer install.

  • If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0, don't try to install a previous version on top of it.
    Version 3.02 doesn't detect version 4.0, and installing the old on top of the new can cause a major lockup.
    NOTE Also beware of other applications that install version 3.02 as part of their installations. ( like MS Office 95 )

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    Delete address tool bar enties.

  • To remove this:

    regedit

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU.

    In the right pane, you'll see all the URLs you're trying to delete from the Address list.

    Select them all--"url1," "url2," and so on--right-click the selection, select Delete, then click Yes to confirm. Close the Registry Editor.

    If you delete a single entry, all entries following it in the sequence won't appear in the Address list (even though they appear in the Registry).
    An easy workaround is this: After deleting an entry, rename the last entry in the sequence using the number of the URL you just got rid of.
    So, for example, if you have eight entries, and you delete "url3," right-click "url8," select Rename, and rename it "url3."

    To make your changes stick, close and re-open the Address toolbar: Right-click a blank area of the taskbar and select Toolbars, Address; then follow these same steps to make it reappear.

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    Remove additional profiles in netscape.

  • How to kill additional profiles in netscape

    Go to Start\Run and type:

    "C:\program files\netscape\communicator\program\netscape.exe" -profile_manager

    Here you will see your profiles, delete the ones you dont want.

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    Remove the URLs that IE remembers.

  • Remove the URLs that IE remembers for its AutoComplete feature by launching RegEdit and going to

    HKEY_USERS\Default\Software\Microsoft \InternetExplorer\TypedURLs
    Delete any unwanted URLs.

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    Auto Complete Paues.

  • Using IE5, if your cursor seems to have a delay between entering fields.

    Then remove the option AUTO COMPLETE.
    It's like having control back again and the response is extremely fast again.
    It is in IE5: | TOOLS | INTERNET OPTIONS | CONTENT | AUTO COMPLETE.

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    Setting Default Browser.

  • To change the default browser, you must enable the message which appears and asks if the current browser should be the default browser.

    These are the registry entries for MSIE and Netscape 3.X:

    HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

    In the right panel, if Check_Associations has a value of yes, the screen appears.

    HKEY_Current_User\Software\Netscape\Netscape Navigator\Main

    In the right panel, if IgnoreDefCheck has a value of no, the screen appears.

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