Archive for 'Browsers'
Howto tune ClearType
ClearType is a software technology developed by Microsoft that improves the readability of text on LCD monitors. With ClearType font technology, the words on your computer screen look almost as sharp and clear as those printed on a piece of paper. Windows XP, Windows Vista and text rendering in Internet Explorer 7 allow you to use the ClearType [...]
Posted: January 13th, 2007 under Browsers, Microsoft.
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Remote assistance and IE7
The problem that I described in a previous post (http://www.petroons.net/blog/?p=84) no longer occurs with the final release of IE7.
Posted: October 30th, 2006 under Browsers, Microsoft, Windows XP.
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Remote assistance failing to start with IE7 (RC) installed
You might experience some problems offering remote assistance on Windows XP when you installed IE7 (RC). Starting remote assistance results in errors:“Remote Assistance Failed. Please try again”.“A program has stopped responding. Please restart the program and try again”. After browsing some support forums I came across following workaround: Create a shortcut with following URL: hcp://cn=microsoft corporation,l=redmond,s=washington,c=us/Remote [...]
Posted: October 23rd, 2006 under Browsers, Internet, Microsoft, Windows XP.
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Microsoft Update failing to install updates with 0x800704DD and 0×80240020
After cleaning a family member ‘s pc from a bunch a spyware I had some problems getting Microsoft Update (or Windows Update) to install new updates. The workstation also had some problems starting up MS Antispyware (critical error). Windows update reported following error when trying to install a new update (the download succeeded): “A problem [...]
Posted: January 22nd, 2006 under Browsers, Internet, Microsoft, Windows Server, Windows XP.
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Keep fighting malware and spyware
Keep fighting malware and spyware to prevent bandwidth waste and to improve system and employee performance: Microsoft antispyware beta (No charge) Lavasoft Ad-Aware (No charge) Spybot Search & Destroy (S&D) (No charge ) See also: a previous blog post about malware control.
Posted: January 18th, 2006 under Browsers, Internet, Microsoft, Windows Server, Windows Vista, Windows XP.
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Redirecting malware and spyware via HOSTS file
The HOSTS file is a simple text file on your Windows machine that is used to perform name resolution to IP addresses. This happens before the DNS name resolution. If the HOSTS file can resolve a given domain name then DNS will not be used. With that in mind the HOSTS file can be used [...]
Posted: November 19th, 2005 under Browsers, Internet, Microsoft, Windows Server, Windows XP.
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Bart’s Blog ready for IE7 ;-)
When you browse to a web page that offers RSS feeds, IE7 will notify you with the orange icon lightening up (RSS autodiscovery): Clicking the icon wil show you a list of all available feeds. Since I’m testing IE7 in beta I wanted to add this functionality to my own page. To enable your site [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2005 under Browsers, Internet, Microsoft.
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Browser vulnerabilities
A lot of people will advise not using Microsoft IE for surfing the WEB because of security vulnerabilities. It’s true that Microsft IE often is a victem of vulnerability exploits. That’s why we urge everyone to keep their MS based systems up to date. Most exploits will appear a certain time after the release/publication of [...]
Posted: September 19th, 2005 under Browsers.
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