Internet Explorer 7

I still use Netscape Navigator 3.0

 

Yeah, but in the U.S., that's like Navigator 0.6.

 

I use Netscape. It has the tabbed browsing and enables me to select how I would like the browser displayed; IE or FireFox. Also, I can hit refresh in one tab, click over to another and then click back when the refresh has completed.

My main drawback to IE was a security hole found a few months back. Someone hacked into a buddy's website and uploaded a virus, so, as soon the page was loaded with IE, it loaded the virus on the PC.

 

the tab function is the best part about firefox. it's hard to explain why moving from tab to tab is better than shifting from window to window. i guess moving to different windows is slower and more unwieldy, but moving to different tabs is instantaneous.

 

I am completely distraught over this computer. Seriously considering wiping out the entire hard drive and starting over. Is that wrong?

I can't even trace the origin of the problems. I don't use it much, it's a desktop in my office at home, where I rarely venture, I just use this perfectly clean laptop and have no problems, ever.

But there's this great lady who comes to my house and apparently knows where I keep my vaccuum cleaner and tells me when we are out of Windex, etc, and she brings her kids when I am out of town so they can walk the dog, and I told them they can use the computer any time.

Apparently, they are spending hours playing 'Click the bunny, Win an iPod!' and pursuing their lifelong dream of being the millionth visitor at every site on the entire internet.

So most days, I walk past that computer, where it is frozen, as always, on the Italian porn site with the two blondes going down on the hairy guy with the Hello Kitty bandana.

Half the time Explorer won't even launch...if I reboot, I get forty error messages. In its current state, it loads a page every 45 minutes.

It's a fairly new computer, and it wasn't cheap. Do I dump it, give it a total lobotomy, or just enjoy the Italian porn people?

 

i vote for enjoying the italian porn

 

21, it sounds like you have some real nasty viruses and spamware on that system. What you need to do, if you have nothing important on there, is start over. Once you do that, install Netscape or FireFox and hide the Internet Explorer icons so that the program won't be started.

If you don't hide the IE icons, those kids will continue loading and using it wreaking further havoc on your PC.

 

And unfortunately, right now I'm too busy to find all those links. Here are the ones I use regularly ...

BugMeNot
IEtab
Tabbrowser Preferences
Print/Print Preview
PDF Download
Image Zoom
ForecastFox (weather in Firefox's status bar)
ClearCacheButton
BBCodeXtra
Add Bookmark Here
Restart Firefox

 

Don't forget AdBlock! That's a good one.

 

i've had ie7 since it was a beta... no major problems... buggy at first... the only problem i think everyone over 30 (basic users) will have that they don't know how keep there computer "clean" (but i have to admit i charge the going rate for outside consultation to the hours the company pays... hey... someone has to spend the dough we pay for anyways...) ... wait until you see office suite 2007...

 

A couple of lines in the registry; here's a link to the reg file and an uninstall reg file from majorgeeks :
http://www.majorgeeks.com/IE7_Menu_Move_d5306.html

Just unzip and then double-click on the reg file.

Here's what the reg file contains:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser]
"ITBar7Position"=dword:00000001

 

Yeah, I did forget AdBlock ... probably the best of the bunch. Blocks ads, blocks annoying images, block Google ads, even blocks Intellitext ads. In fact, blocks nearly anything you tell it to with the exception of straight-ahead HTML. Great stuff.