Change Font Size
Opening Temporary Internet Files
Quickly Opening a Newsgroup from your Browser
Internet Explorer in Full Screen Mode
Setting Internet Explorer Window Size
Organizing Your Favorites
Reordering Your Links (IE 4)
Changing the Links Icon (IE 4)
Changing the Search Pages Used by Internet Explorer
4.0
Having IE Load a Default Page Other Than BLANK.HTM
Changing the IE and Outlook Title Bars
Changing the Information Boxes in IE 4
Opening Links in a New Window
Accessing your best Favorites
Keeping Track of Bookmarks
Changing Internet Explorer's Blank Page
Increasing Viewing Space
Changing the Directory for the Internet Explorer Cache
Changing the Title Bar of the Internet Explorer
Changing the Internet Explorer, Mail and News Bitmap
Using Other Mail Packages with Internet Explorer
Viewing Drives with IE 3.0
Changing your Favorites Location
Internet Explorer Keyboard Shortcuts
Adding IE3.0 Bookmarks to the Start Menu
Adding Custom Links and Applications to Internet Explorer 3.0
Toolbar
Adding your HTML Editor to the Internet Explorer 3.0 Toolbar
Organizing Internet Explorer 3.0's Favorites
Changing the Internet Explorer 3.0's ToolBar Background
Re-Setting Internet Explorer to Save rather than Open Files
Downloaded
Turning off the underline of hot links in Internet
Explorer 3.0
Starting the Internet Explorer with no initial Start Page
Keeping Control of URL Bookmarks
Submitted 1/31/99
In IE4, hold down CTRL and use the mouse wheel to increase/decrease font size quickly.
Normally when you try to open a file in the Temporary Internet Folders
directory, you get a warning:
Running a system command on this item may be unsafe. Do you wish to continue?
To remove this warning:
Now you can click on a file in that directory and open it without the warning.
This is a tip for quickly reading a newsgroup without having to download the
whole news file which can take quite some time and be rather large.
If you know the name of the newsgroup you want to read:
Press F11 to resize windows to a full screen in Internet Explorer 4.0
Submitted by Scott Witherow
When you click on a hyperlink in Outlook or Outlook Express, it will automatically
open Internet Explorer
Sometimes this may be in a small window.
To increase or change the size, click on the Restore button, the middle
one in the upper right hand corner of the toolbar.
Resize the window and then close the Internet Explorer
The next time you click on a hyperlink, it will open to the size you set.
With IE4 or Win98, a shortcut to an easy way to organizing
your favorites is to press Ctrl-B while the Internet
Explorer is running.
This brings up a box where you can create or delete new folders, re-order
folders, sort folders, as well as import and export your favorites.
To change the little icon that appears next to a link:
Changing the Search icon Engine
When you click on the Search icon in IE4, you go to the default page of http://home.microsoft.com/search/search.asp
To change this setting:
Changing the Go / Search the Web Engine
Normally, if a web site can't be found, IE will load the file
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\BLANK.HTM
To have it load another file:
To change the IE Title Bar:
To Change the Outlook Title Bar
With IE4, when you place the mouse over My Computer, Network
Neighborhood, and the Recycle Bin icons, etc.
a small window opens with some information.
For example, over the My Computer icon, it starts with Use My Computer to view the contents of your computer.
To change this text:
Items you can change are:
Hold down Shift and point with the mouse on a link.
A new IE opens automatically with the new page.
Submitted by Dieter Barthelmeus
If you have many favorites that you frequently access, but their names areat the end of the alphabet. I rename my "favorite" favorites with a letter and space like this:
A Microsoft Knowledge Base
B Microsft Home Page
This way they are at the top of the list of favorites for easy access.
Bookmark Tip:
For Netscape users; To better keep track of what you found where simply add
a "note" to your bookmark.
To do this; highlight a bookmark, select ITEM, select PROPERTIES and in the
NAME box to the bookmark's actual name add your "note".
Such as "Great game software, neat utilities Etc."
Explorer users may be able to do a similar thing.
Tired of looking at the page "BLANK.HTM" whenever Internet explorer can not connect to a site on the internet.
Try this simple trick to make this page remove itself whenever it is displayed. You will however still receive a error message telling you that you could not connect to the site.
All you need to do is to edit the file: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\BLANK.HTM until it looks like this:
<html>
<head>
<title>Microsoft Internet Explorer</title>
</head>
<body>
<script language="JavaScript">
window.close("blank.htm", "Microsoft Internet Explorer")
</script>
</body>
</html>
To get more viewing space in for web browsing, just go to Options and uncheck
Text labels and Links.
Click OK then highlight the bottom of the toolbars and shift them up.
By default, the Internet Explorer creates four directories Cache1-4
where it places all the HTML pages, graphics, AVI's etc that you view
If you want to move this location or even have only one cache that points to a
directory of your choice:
This can be useful if you want to delete the files often. You can then just delete the files in the single directory
By default, the title bar on the Internet Explorer says Microsoft
Corporation Internet Explorer
To change this to the text of your choice:
If you want to change the bitmap that is in the upper right hand corner:
To change the Internet Explorer to use another e-mail package than Exchange when sending mail:
You can go to you hard drive or run applications by typing their path into
the Internet Explorer address bar.
For example try typing C:\ into the address bar and watch what happens. Is this
signs of things to come from IExplorer?
Note from Bob: - You can also view resources on servers the same way.
For the URL enter a UNC such as \\server\share
You might want to change the location where the Internet Explorer looks for
your store Favorite sites.
This can come in useful if you have multiple operating systems (Windows95 and
NT 4.0) and want to share
the save set of Favorites or you simply want to have greater control over where
you favorites are stored.
Here are a few IE keyboard shortcuts:
Along the toolbar are several default links, Best of the Web, Today's
Links etc.
To change the URL and description to your preference:
Michael Millican has another
addition I never would have thought of.
Make one of these links point to a hard drive (C:\, D:\)
When you click on it, you get an Explorer type view of that drive.
He uses it to create folders on the fly to download software into.
You can add your favorite HTML Editor, or any other program, to the Internet
Explorer 3.0 toolbar.
The next time you start the Internet Explorer 3.0, a Edit icon will be
on the toolbar.
If you selected your HTML editor, when you click on that icon, your editor will
be started and will load the current web page.
An easy way to organize all your Favorite web sites is to hold the Shift key
down
while selecting Favorites / Organize Favorites.
This will show you all the sites and folders. It makes it easy to move sites and
create new folders.
If you want to change the background on your Internet Explorer 3.0 toolbar:
When you try and download a .EXE file with Internet Explorer, you are
prompted to "Always ask before opening this type of file".
If you uncheck this box, the next time a EXE file is about to be downloaded, you
will not be prompted and the file will automatically be opened.
You also do not see the "Always ask..." box again so you can uncheck
it.
To reset Internet Explorer back again:
Internet Explorer 3.0 has no setting for turning off underline of hot links.
It can be done in the registry. In HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main
change the value of "Anchor Underline" to "no".
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs
has the URLs which appear when you click the arrow in the Address window.
By default, the Internet Explorer always loads a startup page.
This can add time starting the program, especially with a modem.
To start with no Startup Page:
Create Folder called Bookmarks