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Changing the "Favorites" path in Internet Explorer affects where your bookmarks are stored on your computer. Change the "Favorites" path in Internet Explorer with help from the creative director for Graceroot.com in this free video clip.
Syncing your bookmarks and favorites to a cloud-based account provides you with browser mobility. You can change computers, and even change browsers, without worrying about whether you've backed up your bookmarks. There have been several tools for syncing bookmarks to the Windows cloud drive service, SkyDrive; if you're using one of these older tools, Internet Explorer 8 does not sync your bookmarks. The newest service, Windows Live Mesh, offers computer-to-computer syncing functionality though.
The Google Web Toolkit is a free and open-source Web app development kit designed to assist developers in creating applications for all major browsers. Due to differences in the way that specific browsers operate, applications developed using GWT may not function the same in all versions of all browsers. This is particularly common with previous versions of Internet Explorer, such as IE8.
As the World Wide Web has matured, websites that were created years ago may still use Cascading Style Sheet coding specific to the idiosyncrasies of older Web browsers. However, some newer browsers offer the ability to render these older sites, using cues in a page's HTML code to trigger "Quirks Mode."
When you design your website, you may create a background image that defines where elements, such as a block of text or list of links, should appear on the page. With CSS, you can style your HTML elements to create a sense of overlapping alignment. If Internet Explorer 8 does not align objects with the background as designed, you can use what is known as a CSS hack to remedy it.
First released in beta form in early 2008, Microsoft's official version of Internet Explorer 8, or IE8, became available to the public in March of 2009. One of the chief complaints among users who upgraded from older versions of Microsoft's Web browser to IE8 was the apparent disappearance of the "My Favorites" section and changes to how this section was organized.
Internet Explorer 6 saw three major service pack releases during its lifespan, spanning the 2000 decade. Service packs bring major updates and revisions to a software program, comparable to renovating your house. Service Pack 3 for Internet Explorer 6 went largely unnoticed by the public because it mostly affected people who were still using Windows XP. By that time, Microsoft already had Internet Explorer 7 and 8 on the market, which is what newer editions of Windows used.
When you access the history in Internet Explorer, a list of websites appears without a date stamp on it. Accessing the website history properties or using third-party software will show the dates when each website was visited. Multiple factors could cause issues with the dates and give you false information when looking over the browsing history.
Internet Explorer 8 is a Web browser that was released by Microsoft in 2009, and it is bundled with the Windows 7 operating system. Dubbed IE8, the browser comes with a variety of features, including the ability to view website script errors, which makes fixing coding errors easier for Web developers. Although IE8 users can usually view script errors by default, you may find that your browser won’t display these errors. By going over each possible cause for this problem, you can configure IE8 so that script errors can be viewed.
Most programmers use Internet debugging to check for errors in codes and scripts on developed websites or Web-based software. Internet Explorer has an option to allow anyone to debug a website, if they so desire. Other browsers usually require special plug-ins before they will attempt Internet debugging. Sometimes the option gets turned on in Internet Explorer by accident, which can be annoying if all you want to do is browse the Internet.
CLEAR offers over-the-air, high-speed wireless Internet service using technologies that are typically used to provide mobile phones with Web access. DirecTV provides digital satellite programming that relies mostly on satellite transmissions, but can also include content that is delivered from the Internet. This DirecTV service requires a high-speed Internet connection and additional equipment to work properly. Because CLEAR’s 3G network-based Internet service is slower than wired cable and DSL connections, you might experience problems with your DirecTV service.
Silverlight is a free Microsoft Web plugin for viewing streaming video. When you watch Netflix online on your computer, Silverlight is the software that makes it possible. Although Silverlight is compatible with most versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser, the browser sometimes doesn't notice that you've installed Silverlight. Resetting Internet Explorer is one way to fix the problem.
Normally, your Internet Explorer Web browser should display the standard mouse pointer image whenever you navigate through any website. By default, the cursor should only change when hovering over a link or when you access a website that modifies your cursor settings to fit a specific theme. However, you may see changes to your cursor, such as a small icon instead of the normal pointer, after updating Internet Explorer or installing add-on software.
FeedBurner is a RSS feed reader and manager that can be used in Internet Explorer as an add-on. Although many FeedBurner users have no problems with displaying and using the add-on in IE, you may find that FeedBurner does not display correctly in IE. There are four primary causes for FeedBurner not displaying correctly, ranging from browser to security program interference problems. By troubleshooting through each cause, you can get FeedBurner working again.
Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer in 1995 as an add-on to its Windows 95 operating system. The company's Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Web browser application hit the market in 2008 and contains a feature known as Compatibility View that allows Internet content designed for older browsers to display properly in IE8. As of February 2012, IE9 is the most current version of the browser application.
The Web debugger Fiddler's purpose is to monitor traffic between applications such as Internet Explorer 7 and the Internet. Because of a change in the way that Internet Explorer 7 and the .NET Framework operate, Fiddler may not work with the browser without small changes to the program on your part even though it is intended to work out of the box. Internet Explorer 9 is the current version of the browser as of February 2012.
Programming a website can be a complex project that leads to the occasional error. When you receive an Internet Explorer script error while visiting sites such as MSN, IE is alerting you that the browser has tried to process a problematic line in the code and gives you the option to stop running it. The error also provides debugging options for programmers. Turning off this alarm in IE will allow you to avoid these messages in the future.
Internet Explorer comes with a script debugging mode used by developers to check a website or Web-based software to ensure it functions properly when displayed through the IE browser. When you have this featured enabled accidentally, Internet Explorer automatically debugs the script on a website. When it finds an error, it identifies the location of the errors, by saying something similar to "Internet Explorer Script Error Line 22, Char 5."
Some proxy servers require an employee to log in to the server before using the server's Internet access. Problems with proxy server credentials can stem from your browser's settings or they can be caused by server configurations. You cannot fix proxy server settings unless you have access to the server, but you can take steps to troubleshoot and fix the settings in Internet Explorer.
A drop menu HTML control displays a list of selections from which a website reader can choose when filling out your forms. Internet Explorer 7 supports these drop menu controls. Each item in the control is given an index number. Index numbers start with 0, and increment by 1 each time you add a new element.
Anyone can publish a website, and novice developers often cut and paste code that they do not understand. Their code works fine on their development machines, but when deployed on other browsers, this code may render differently or may raise script errors related to a particular line, such as line 240. In most cases, these errors can be ignored and, unless you are a Web developer, these pop-ups can be disabled. A few changes to your Internet Explorer browser will eliminate script error line 240.
Using a flash drive and a Web browser simultaneously can overload a computer's working memory. If Internet Explorer is not operating effectively while you have a USB device plugged in, look in four general areas for a solution.
BO:Writable BO:Heap is an error message associated with Internet Explorer 7 — IE 7 — and may be a sign of a computer virus. The cause of these errors isn't necessarily a viral infection, however. It may be a false positive from an online virus scan program such as McAfee or a sign that another computer is attempting to infiltrate your system. Either way, take steps to protect your system to avoid future problems with BO:Heap.
The Resource Description Framework is a method of describing objects, from photo metadata to RSS feeds, and the World Wide Web Consortium considers RDF to be a "building block" of the Semantic Web. Although under some circumstances Internet Explorer 8 can read data formatted with RDF specifications, under others IE8 will ignore it or ask you for a third-party application.
Embedding an Adobe Flash SWF file in WordPress involves using a special HTML tag that tells the browser to open and play the movie or animation. Even though most browsers remain compliant on certain common functions, Internet Explorer 7 has its own requirements for embedding an SWF file in a WordPress post. If you do not use the additional tag, WordPress viewers using IE7 cannot view the movie.
Compatibility View can make a great difference in how older sites appear in Internet Explorer 8. However, depending on the page you're viewing and your browser and Internet settings, you may not see a Compatibility View button. If IE8 hides the button more often than expected, troubleshooting should reveal the cause.
The Portable Network Graphics image format was created to improve upon and replace GIF images on websites. However, some browsers were slow to adopt the PNG format. While Internet Explorer 8 and later offer support for most PNG images, under certain circumstances, some or all of these images may not display as expected.
In 2009, Microsoft released the eighth version of its free Web browser, Internet Explorer, for the Windows XP operating system. While IE8 focuses on privacy, security and ease of use, it isn't without flaws. Some IE8 users encounter problems with banners -- the wide advertisements, images or titles featured at the top of many websites -- which may fail to appear. In most cases, you can remedy IE8 banner problems with simple troubleshooting methods.
Navigating on the Web involves sending and receiving data, including information that is often important or sensitive. It is therefore crucial to ensure that connections between Web browsers and servers are secure. Encryption and SSL connections provide this security, but unless the encryption capabilities of the user’s browser match those of the server at the other end, errors can occur. If this happens, the security level of the browser must be increased to match that of the server providing the encrypted content.
If your Internet Explorer 6 browser is crashing unexpectedly, you might be tempted to blame the application or your computer operating system. However, some IE6 issues, such as the browser repeatedly crashing, are caused by Sockins32.dll, a little-known file that controls many functions of the Web browsing program.
Internet Explorer 8 comes preinstalled in Windows XP Service Pack 3, a vital system update that improves computer performance and security. Although you can install IE8 without the update, you're likely to experience loading and display issues. If IE8 isn't performing as expected, Microsoft provides solutions to common problems.
The Windows XP operating system allows you to customize your computer experience by choosing themes that change how toolbars and windows appear. These themes can't account for the content of every possible Web page. Some high contrast themes may result in websites that don't display properly or aren't visually appealing. Aside from changing the Windows theme to use less conflicting colors, both Internet Explorer and Firefox also feature options to manually change color settings.
As of the date of this publication, the Fix.com or Error.net websites do not offer a solution to fix the Internet Explorer browser. Although the names of each website may lead you to believe a solution is offered to help you resolve computer or browser problems, the sites do not. If you are having troubles with Internet Explorer, you can fix numerous issues directly from within the browser, without using a third-party website.
Although many users believe that their Web surfing activities are anonymous, a great deal of identifying information is transmitted to and from websites that you browse. A history of the sites you've visited is stored on your computer even after you close your browser, and most websites keep logs of visitors' IP addresses and other statistical data. For those who wish to surf the Web anonymously, most of the major browsers offer secure browsing modes to give users more anonymity as they travel the Web.
Drab, ordinary Web browsers are history; in minutes, you can dress yours up with a new look called a theme or skin. A theme contains colors, background graphics and button styles that replace the browser’s stock appearance. Be it sci-fi, the Simpsons or your alma mater, you can find themes to match nearly any taste. Many themes are free to download. They install easily, and if you change your mind, you can remove them and try others.
The Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Web browser application can experience occasional glitches, such as drop-down problems with the Favorites menu. This particular problem has occurred with users that run the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, arising when there is a compatibility problem between the software and the operating system. IE7 hit the market in October 2006 and is the seventh edition of the company’s Web browser application. At the time of publication, IE9 is the most current version of the browser.
When Microsoft Windows users open a Web page, download a file from the Internet or watch a streaming video online, a copy of the files they view temporarily get stored onto their computers. When you visit a website, for instance, several elements of the site including images, objects, and text information disperse into several temporary files that get stored on your computer. The "The parameter is incorrect" error occurs when the system is unable to create temporary files in response to your online activity.
2001 marked a turning point in Microsoft's browser marketing strategy when it introduced Internet Explorer 6. Years later, many Internet surfers now enjoy the technological enhancements found in later versions of the browser such as IE8. While surfing the Web, you don't have to worry about being unable to view sites designed for IE6; Microsoft made IE8 backwards compatible with its older sibling.
If Internet Explorer terminates automatically on a more than fleeting basis, any of several problems may exist with the software of your computer. Identify and remedy the root cause of unexpected Internet Explorer crashes to prevent them from occurring in the future and to ensure you are able to use the program without incident.
Websites and online resources often display photos and graphics in JPEG format and bitmap format, and the Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Web browser is fully compatible with both image file types. If Internet Explorer 7 fails to display JPEG, bitmaps or other image files correctly on Web pages, Microsoft recommends a series of troubleshooting procedures to fix the problem.
Internet Explorer 8 stores temporarily files in a folder known as a cache and can access these files more quickly from your computer than downloading from the Internet. Raising the limit to higher than 50-megabytes can improve IE8's performance; your browser should allow that. However, other programs or computer settings can interfere with this process.
A data miner is a type of tracking cookie sent to your Web browser by a server as you browse content on a website. Your browser stores the cookie, which alerts the server every time it is accessed. This enables a company to track what you are viewing as you navigate across its website. It should be noted that a data miner activates only when you access a website on the server that sent the cookie, and it cannot be used to track your activities elsewhere on the Internet.
When computer programs run, any data that requires processing is first loaded into the computer's memory so it can be easily accessed by the computer's processor. Since a computer only has as much memory as is installed on the motherboard, errors can occur if the memory capacity is exceeded. These errors, known as "stack overflow" errors, can occur when programs such as Internet Explorer attempt to load too much data at one time.
Internet Explorer 8, otherwise known as IE8, is compatible with PaperPort, a document management software for PCs designed to turn paper documents into a soft copy. The software is designed by Nuance, and will function on most computers; PaperPort works on operating systems as old as Windows XP, which was released in 2001. Browsers like Internet Explorer are not required to scan documents, only to save and share them.
Internet Explorer is a widely used web browser created by Microsoft. It comes installed with all computers running Windows operating systems, so it is often the first browser that a new computer user works with. When the wrong settings are used, text entered into website or browser fields appears backwards.
Microsoft updates its Web browser program Internet Explorer with new features regularly. Every time you run an update, you face the possibility of glitches or problems with the new version. Hhctrl.Ocx is a file related to the help system in this browser. All versions of Internet Explorer will have this file, but each version may have a distinctive form of it. This means you may get a new file when you upgrade from IE7 to IE8 and it may cause errors.
Joomla content-management software focuses on designing pages and sites for the Web. It is an Open Source program, which means anyone with coding knowledge can add or change it without violating its copyright. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer 8 clashes with Joomla 1.5 at times, presenting a challenge to Web designers.
The K300i, a cellphone distributed by Sony Ericsson, operates on a GSM network and can access the Internet. Once you have activated your phone, and purchased a data plan from your service provider, Internet access is immediately available via the "Internet Button" on the front of the device. Internet settings can be changed from the phone's menu.
The error, "BrowseIt.GetFileText.Permission Denied," or any variation thereof, is caused by an error in the free, open-source Web browser, BrowseIt! If you've installed BrowseIt! on your computer or a program that incorporates BrowseIt! elements, that software may be corrupted. However, since the software is free, it's also known to be used in some viruses and adware, which may have infected your computer.
If Internet Explorer is behaving abnormally, the iexplore.exe file may be corrupt or damaged. This system file runs together with Internet Explorer. It's needed for Internet Explorer to perform optimally. If Internet Explorer is constantly freezing, crashing or closing unexpectedly, the issue is usually with iexplore.exe, so it's necessary to perform a few troubleshooting steps to improve the browser's performance.
