Internet Explorer - General

I. E.: Address Bar
  • Close all instances of Internet Explorer except one
    Right-click on the top Toolbar, uncheck: "Lock the Toolbars"
    Place the cursor over the "Address" button and click (hold down)
    It will change to a 4-way arrow, move or expand the Address Bar to desired location
    Right-click on the top Toolbar, check: "Lock the Toolbars"
    Hold down the Ctrl key and close Internet Explorer.

  • Confirm these default Registry entries exist:
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
    "Show_ToolBar"="yes"
    "Show_URLinStatusBar"="yes"
    "Show_URLToolBar"="yes"

  • In Internet Explorer Menu: Tools/Internet Options/Advanced tab
    Scroll down half way to:
    Search from the address bar...
    When searching.... select a mode.
    Click Apply.

  • Fix on S. Ramesh's home page.
     http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/IEFAQ.htm

I. E.: Auto Disconnect

I. E.: Auto Complete
  • Tools\Internet options\Advanced Tab
    Check "Use inline autocomplete"
    Apply and okay your way out.
    Specifies whether you want Internet Explorer to complete entries when you type Web addresses in the Address bar, based on entries you've used before. For example, if you start typing http://www.home.micr and you've visited http://www.home.microsoft.com before, AutoComplete will suggest "http://www.home.microsoft.com." To view other matches, press the DOWN ARROW key. After you finish typing a Web address, or when AutoComplete finds a match, click the Go button.

I. E.: Auto scan list
  • How to Add Domain Types to Auto scan List in Internet Explorer
     By default, Internet Explorer searches the following domain types when the Auto scan Common Root Domains option is enabled: .com, .org, .edu
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=182291 (i. e. 4, 5, 6. W95/98/se/W2000 12/5/2003)

  • How to Search the Internet from the Address Bar in Internet Explorer
    When you type a Web site name without a domain type (such as .com or .org) in the Address bar, an Internet client feature called AutoScan searches for the following Web sites: www.website.com, www.website.edu, www.website.org, website.com, website.edu, and website.org.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=221754 (i. e. 4, 5. W95/98/se/NT4/W2000 5/12/2003)

  • Question: My CTRL+ENTER keys (which adds www.???.com to a word in the address bar stopped working.
    How do I get back this functionality?

    Solution: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoComplete]
    "Append Completion"="no"
    "Use AutoComplete"="yes"
    "AutoSuggest"="no"

    Changing "Append Completion" from "no" to "yes" will restore the function.

I. E.: Back button
  • Error Message: Warning: Page Has Expired: The Page You Requested...
     When you click Back to return to a Web page, you may receive the following error message:
    Warning: Page has Expired
    The page you requested was created using information you submitted in a form. This page is no longer available. As a security precaution, Internet Explorer does not automatically re submit your information for you.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=183763 (i. e. 4. W95 5/12/2003)

  • Back Button in Internet Explorer Becomes Unavailable
     When you are using IE to view various Web sites, the Back and Forward buttons on the tool bar may become unavailable.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=229684 (i. e. 5. W95/98/NT4 10/1/2002)

  • Internet Explorer Hangs If You Click the Back Button When Printing a Word Document
     If you click the Back button after you click the Print button when you are viewing a Microsoft Word document in a frame set in Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer may stop responding (hang).
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=262540 (i. e. 5. NT4 5/8/2003)

  • Cannot Navigate Back to Previous Web Page
     In Microsoft Internet Explorer, you are unable to navigate back to the previous Web page when you click the Back button.
    Internet Explorer loops endlessly between a Web page that you cannot open, and a frameset Web page.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=298639 (i. e. 6. W98/se/NT4/ME/W2000 6/5/2003)

  • Nonfunctional Privacy Icon Is Displayed When You Navigate Back to Web Sites
     The Privacy icon is displayed in the status bar in Internet Explorer when you use the Back command to navigate back to Web sites in your navigation history, but nothing happens when you double-click the Privacy icon. Cookies may or may not have been saved on your computer.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306255 (i. e. 6. W98/se/NT4/ME/W2000/XP 6/5/2003)

  • Back Navigation on POST Causes Re-POST in Internet Explorer 6
     When you return back to the results page, you may receive the following warning message:
    res://mshtml.dll/repost.htm - message (Warning, page has expired, you must refresh...).
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=319792 (i. e. 6. W98/se/ME/NT4/XP/W2000 5/8/2003)

  • Properties Dialog Box for an Encrypted Web Page Indicates That the Connection Is Not Encrypted
     The Properties dialog box for an encrypted Web page indicates that the connection is not encrypted after you click either the Back button or the Forward button on the Internet Explorer toolbar.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=329351 (i. e. 5, 6. 6/5/2003)

I. E.: BackSpace Key

I. E.: Compatibility mode.

I. E.: Default Browser

I. E.: Discussion Feature
  • Using the Discussion Feature in Internet Explorer
     This article explains how to use the Discussion feature in Microsoft Internet Explorer when you are viewing files created in a Microsoft Office 2000 product.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=255085 (5/23/2003)

I. E.: General

I. E.: Icon - Logo
  • How to Restore the Animated Internet Explorer Logo
     This article describes how to restore the animated Internet Explorer logo if it has been changed by your Internet service provider (ISP).
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=176713 (i. e. 4, 5, 6. 5/10/2003)

I. E.: Kios Mode
  • How to Use Kiosk Mode in Microsoft Internet Explorer
     When you run Internet Explorer in Kiosk mode, the Internet Explorer title bar, menus, toolbars, and status bar are not displayed and Internet Explorer runs in Full Screen mode.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=154780 (i.e 4, 5, 6. W95/98/se/NT4/W2000/ME 6/5/2003)

  • "Open in New Window" Restriction Does Not Work in History Pane When in Kiosk Mode
     When you are using Internet Explorer in Kiosk mode, the "Open in New Window" Internet Explorer restriction may not restrict users from opening new browser windows by using the History pane.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=294291 (i. e. 5, 6. W98/se/NT4/ME/W2000/XP 5/8/2003)

I. E.: Multilangual Menus
  • Description of Multilingual Menus and Dialog Boxes for Internet Explorer
     Internet Explorer Pluggable UI (IEPlugUI, also called Multilingual Menus and Dialog Boxes for I. E.) is a set of self-installable packages that change the menus, dialog boxes, and Help in Internet Explorer (and some Windows Explorer menus and dialog boxes) from the system's native language to another language.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308680 (i. e. 5, 6. W98/se/NT4/W2000/ME 6/13/2003)

  • Multilingual Menus and Dialog Boxes for Internet Explorer Do Not Work with Cumulative Patch MS02-023 (or MS02-015)
     For example, the items on a shortcut menu in Internet Explorer Document view may revert to English.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323916 (i. e. 6. W98/se/NT4/W2000/ME/XP 5/8/2003)

  • Setting up Windows Internet Explorer 5, 5.5 and 6 for Multilingual and Unicode Support
     Descriptive site to help you.
    http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/explorer.html

  • Problem submitted by: "Sam Kang"
I'm using IE 6 SP1 with the Windows XP Multilanguage Pack (Korean) installed.  I primarily 
work in English and have the language support because occasionally I have to view/write 
documents that are in Korean.

Whenever I view pages with IE however, it auto-detects the encoding as Korean and I end up 
manually having to change the encoding on every page.  I was wondering if there was a way to 
default the encoding to "User Defined" or "Western."  I have only English listed under then
Options->General->Language setting.  Is there some way to change the way IE goes about
auto-selecting an encoding for pages that don't specify language?  Perhaps something in the
registry? Thank you.

Solution submitted by: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
Tools | Internet Options | Languages button
Move English to the top.

I. E.: Partial Web Page
  • New Internet Explorer Window Opens Partially Off the Screen
     When you open a new window in Internet Explorer, the window may open at the edge of the screen. When this occurs, only a small section of the new window may be visible on the screen.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=194759 (i. e. 4, 5. W95/98 5/10/2003)

  • Partial Web Page Is Displayed
     A Web page is rendered accurately from the top of the page to an arbitrary point midway down the page, and the remainder of the page is blank. such as:
    <HTML >
    <BODY >
    This is some te
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=226550 (i. e. 5. W95/98/se/NT4 5/8/2003)

  • Internet Explorer Cannot Display All the Text on a Web Page
     This issue can occur if the line of text contains more than 4000 characters. This is a limitation of Internet Explorer.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=230202 (i. e. 4, 5. W95/98/NT4 5/12/2003)

  • Incomplete HTML Pages and Random Authentication Prompts If ISA Server Is Chained to Upstream Proxy
     If Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 is chained to an upstream Web proxy server, you may receive incomplete HTML pages and random authentication prompts in the Web browser.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297080 (10/16/2002)

  • Advertising Windows Constantly Interfere with Internet Browsing
     You may notice the following symptoms:
    Pop-up advertisements continually open while you attempt to browse the Internet or to open Web pages. -or- Web pages open very slowly or they are only partially displayed.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=312931 (W95/98/se/ME 8/6/2002)

  • Internet Explorer Calculates the Web Page Window Size Incorrectly
     When you create Web pages, the screen-size calculation that is used to determine child window locations (and other items in a parent window) may be incorrect. This may cause child windows (and other items in a parent window) in an HTML page to appear off center, or to appear incorrectly in the parent window of an HTML page.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321268 (i. e. 6. W98se/ME/NT4/W2000/XP 5/8/2003)

  • Script Errors with Cache-Control:no-cache HTTP Header and HTTP Compression
     If you read Web pages from a site, an HTML page may be incomplete, or you may receive script error messages such as the following in Microsoft Internet Explorer (Programming) version 6.0: Object doesn't support this property or method -or- '(object reference)' is null or not an object.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=327286 (i. e. 6. 5/12/2003)

  • You Cannot Connect to the Internet After You Install Microsoft Updates
     Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
    Microsoft Windows XP SP1. The hotfixes 312176 and 325662
    You receive incomplete HTML pages
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=331906 (i. e. 6. 98/se/ME/NT4/XP/W2000 5/8/2003)

  • HTML Pages Only Partially Appear, HTML Pages Do Not Appear, or the Network Stops Responding
     http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823386 (i. e. 6. 4/15/2004)

  • Utility: IEPlacement.reg
     The Window opens to the right of browser, so only half of the new window can be seen. How do I stop it from doing that?
    Download the this .REG file, close all browser windows and double-click it. It just resets the Windows_Placement value in the registry.
    http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

I. E.: Profile Assistant

I. E.: Radio Bar

I. E.: Referer header.
  • INFO: Internet Explorer Does Not Send Referer Header in Unsecured Situations
    When linking from one document to another in Internet Explorer 4.0 and later, the HTTP Referer header will not be sent when the referer is a non-HTTP (or non-HTTPS) page. The Referer header will also not be sent when linking from an HTTPS page to a non-HTTPS page.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=178066 (10/13/2003)

  • From: "Tony Gilbert"
    Error: Object Expected - Images won't load
    My problem is with I.E. 6 and Norton Internet Security, where some images on a page load and others don't. All are available if you persist in clicking "show picture" for each image.
    It seems that Patch 4.03 for Norton Internet Security causes images loaded from another server to be blocked by default - HTTP-REFERRER auto-block - and must be enabled on a SITE BY SITE basis!!! Surely there is another solution?

I. E.: Refresh
  • Unable to Refresh Web Page That Uses Cookies if Set to Prompt for Cookies
     When you click the Refresh button on the Internet Explorer tool bar, and then click Refresh on the View menu (or press F5) to refresh a Web page that uses cookies, the Web page may not be successfully refreshed after you click Allow Cookie or Block Cookie in the Privacy Alert dialog box.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306027 (i. e. 6. W98/se/NT4/ME/XP/W2000 6/5/2003)

  • From: Günter Tomczyk in a News Group
    I just made an upgrade from IE5.5 to IE6.0. Now I have a problem, that I. E. is not working with any HTML tag:
    e.g.<META http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;URL=/....">
    Answer: I found it.
    In the IE-Options->security, I had to allow "META REFRESH".

I. E.: Repair / Reporting Tools

I. E.: Restrictions - Registry Hack.
  • The restrictions that are available to Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1
    Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 provides computer administrators more latitude in restricting users' access to various features in the program. Each of the following values is of type DWORD. To turn on the value, set it to 1. To turn off the value, set it zero (0).
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823057 (i. e. 6. XP/W2000 2/23/2004)

I. E.: Security

I. E.: Service Pack

I. E.: Start
  • Internet Explorer Does Not Start
     When you attempt to start Internet Explorer, the mouse pointer may change to the Working In Background or Busy pointer and then back to the normal pointer, but Internet Explorer may not start.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=166465 (i. e. 4, 5. NT4 5/14/2003)

I. E.: Start page
  • How to Change the Internet Explorer Initial Start Web Page
     When you deploy Internet Explorer in a user-profiled environment (such as Windows NT or Windows 2000), you may want to change the initial start page that is displayed when each user starts Internet Explorer.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=289902 (i. e. 5. W2000/NT4 10/1/2002)

I. E.: Status Bar

I. E.: Style Sheet
  • Unable to Enable or Disable Style Sheets in Internet Explorer
     http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=183717 (i. e. 5, 6. W95/98/se/NT4/W2000/ME 5/10/2003)

  • Problem submitted by: "Jacob" 
A couple of nights ago I was looking around online and the next morning I checked my email
and everything was centered. It wasn't just like that in Hotmail. It was like 
that on every  site. I was wondering if anyone knew how that changed and if they do how
I can get it back to normal.

Answer by Mike Burgess:
Jacob,
Sounds like "Use my Style Sheet" ......
Internet Options | General [tab] | Accessibility [button]
Any options selected there? Note: by default all 4 should be unchecked.

May also have been caused by a parasite using .css files.
Check it out.
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

I. E.: View as Web Page
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Welcome page

http://www.colba.net/~hlebo49/iexplor.htm