PC Help Guide

Most people might already know how to set up a default start page in Internet Explorer (tools > options > main tab), but what I thought I’d teach you today is just how to set your default page using a registry edit.

• Open your registry editor
• Navigate to the following location – HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
• Find the following key – Start Page
• Double click it
• Change the value data to whatever new home page you want
• Here is a suggestion!

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For security reasons (especially if you are using a shared PC) you may want stop Internet Explorer 7 from saving all passwords and user names.  This will prevent other people from possibly getting access to anything you need a password for (banks, social sites etc).

To stop IE7 from saving any user names and passwords do the following;

• Open IE7
• Click tools and select internet options
• Click the content tab
• Click the setting buttons next to autocomplete
• Uncheck prompt me to save passwords
• Click OK
• Done

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Whenever you start a web application one type of browser will start (ie, firefox etc), but what do you do if you want your default browser to be different. Here are the steps you should take to make each browser your default;

Internet Explorer

• Open internet explorer
• Click tools
• Select internet options
• Select internet properties
• Click the programs tab
• Click the make default button under default web browser

Google Chrome

• Open chrome
• Click tools
• Select options
• Click the basic tab
• Click Make Google Chrome my default browser

Mozilla Firefox

• Open firefox
• Click tools
• Select options
• Click the advanced tab
• Click the general tab
• Click the check now button under system defaults

Opera

• Go to Tools
• Click preferences
• Click advanced
• Select programs
• Tick the checkbox for Check if Opera is default browser on startup

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Most likely you will have the Google toolbar or something similar installed (yahoo, msn toolbar), so you may have no use for the search bar installed in your IE7.

If you want to disable the IE7 search bar then you need to perform a basic registry edit so make sure you backup your registry first. Here is how you disable the IE7 search bar;

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Infodelivery\Restrictions

• Note: You may have to create the new keys InternetExplorer\Infodelivery\Restrictions
• Create a new DWORD in Restrictions
• Call it NoSearchBox
• Set the value to 1
• Done
• Set the value to 0 if you want to activate the search bar again

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If you use or have used IE7 you will have noticed that new bar at the top of the page, this is the command bar. The command bar comes with these menu choices;

• Home
• Feeds
• Read mail
• Print
• Page
• Tools

Some people do like this feature on IE7 and quite a few more have emailed me asking just how they can disable the command bar. Disabling the command bar in IE7 is fairly easy but it does require a registry edit so if you are unsure make sure you backup your registry before you attempt anything.

Disabling the IE7 Command Bar

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\CommandBar\

• Create a DWORD called enabled
• Set the value to 0
• Done
• Set the value to 1 if you want it back again

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I just added this add-on to my Firefox and the results rather embarrassed me!

The TimeTracker add-on tool records how much time you spend browsing the web using Firefox and records it conveniently on your browser. It can help you control your browsing habits and stop you getting internetitis from being online too long.

TimeTracker features;

• Tracks browsing time across sessions
• Pauses automatically when you stop browsing
• Reset counter
• Pause toggle per window
• List ‘work’ sites that should not count
• Tooltip showing total time today, since last reset and since installing

To find out more about TimeTracker and to download it click here

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