| Windows Vista offers a beautiful version of Internet Explorer through Internet Explorer 7. This is exciting for users of Internet Explorer as IE7 has a wide range of features that makes your web browsing easier, more functional, and in some cases, more fun! Unfortunately, many of us are stuck in tradition and do not like some of the bells and whistles that IE7 offers. Here are some tricks that you may be able to use to go back to your old methods of web browsing, while still taking advantage of IE7 and its features. |
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Security settings with IE7 can be a real nuisance if you don’t like change much. If you lower your security settings with IE7, you may find yourself annoyed with the constant nagging from IE7 about your settings. It is very easy to disable this feature and quiet IE7 down a little bit. Go to your Start Search bar, and locate your “Local Computer Policy” menu. You will then follow the next set prompts: Computer Configuration, to Administrative Templates, through Windows Components, through Internet Explorer. Ah hah! You’ve found it! Go to the pane in the right most side, and double click on “Turn off the Security Settings Check Feature”, and set that “Turn Off” mode to “Enabled”. There, now she will be quiet for you and stop nagging.
The Information Bar in IE can be very troublesome for some users as well. You will use the same set of prompts as above to turn this off. Travel through the prompts until you get to “Internet Explorer” prompt again, but keep going to the next prompt “Security Features”. Again, in the pane on the right most side you will see “Internet Explorer Processes” and you can set this to disabled. There you go now, another quieted feature for you to enjoy the rest of your IE7 experience.
Another annoying feature for some people is that Vista has Microsoft Live Search set as the default, which irritates those that prefer to use Google as their search engine. Again, you can simply tell Vista you choose to do otherwise. Open up your Internet Explorer and look at the far right side where you see the Live Search bar, and a drop down arrow right beside it. Click this drop down bar and you will see another menu. Click on “Find More Providers” in this menu. You will be prompted with a list of other search engines, one of which will be Google. Click on Google, or whichever search engine you prefer. You will then be prompted with another screen asking as IE will want to make sure you are truly making the right decision for yourself. Check the box that says “Make this my default search provider” and hit “Add Provider”. You will now not be forced to succumb to Microsoft Live Search unless you really want to.
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