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How to import-export Internet Explorer Favorites

How to import - export Internet Explorer Favorites

If there comes a time when you get a new or different computer, you may want to be able to access your favorites from your old computer. But in order to do that you need to bring them from your old over to your new computer. To do this you need to export them from the old and import them into the new.

Follow these steps to export your Internet Explorer favorites to a file

Open Internet Explorer

Go to File then, Import and Export

Click on Next and then click on Export Favorites and click Next again

If you want to export all of your favorites make sure the Favorites folder is highlighted and click Next

Make sure Export to a File or Address is checked

Click on Browse to choose where you want to save the file

You can rename the default bookmark.htm if you want to put a more descriptive name

Click on Save, Next and then Finish and you are done!

To import you favorites into Internet Explorer do the following:

Open Internet Explorer

Go to File then, Import and Export

Click on Next and then click on Import Favorites and click Next again

Click on Browse to find you saved file, then click Save and then Next

Make sure the Favorites folder is highlighted and click Next

Finally click on Finish and you favorites will be imported!

Active X Controls - Help to graphics

Admin March 10, 2008 Active X Controls Compters Desktop Internet Explorer LAPTOP Microsoft Websites Add Comment

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Active X Controls - Help to graphics

ActiveX is a technology that was developed by Microsoft to enhance the display of images, video and animation in their browsers. ActiveX components are a set of rules that guide the browser to display hi-resolution images and streaming video properly.

It should suffice to say that ActiveX is a technology that was developed to bring the power of Object Linking and Embedding or OLE as it is popularly known, to empower web browsers and particularly Internet Explorer, to display such objects. When web pages with embedded ActiveX components are downloaded, the corresponding controls are also downloaded and automatically launched by the operating system of the computer. This can, over some time, clutter up the registry with unwanted data and controls, thus slowing down the system drastically. This will mean having to clean up the registry with a registry cleaner periodically. ActiveX controls are actually used by windows to display very rich interfacing activity such as animation, video images, virtual reality that used 3D technology, high resolution images and the like.

ActiveX Prompts For Registry Cleaners

When downloaded into your computer, an ActiveX control is actually packaged as an .OCX file. There are cases when more .OCX files are downloaded and needed for a web page. The .OCX files like ActiveX controls need to be registered on your system before they can be used. Registering means that a program capable of doing this, queries the ActiveX control and saves specific information about it into Windows Registry, so that the operating system can find it and therefore be able to use the ActiveX control. However, one must keep in mind the importance or cleaning up the registry periodically. The Internet has the best registry cleaners available free. So, make use of them to keep your system running smoothly.

Pro's and Con's Of ActiveX Controls

It is important to understand that with all the 'pros' of ActiveX technology also come a few 'cons' as well. ActiveX is a very powerful tool and is sometimes used by individuals, with a flair for the technology, to create ActiveX controls with malicious intentions. These 'corrupt' ActiveX controls can wreck havoc on your system and leave you helpless for no fault of yours. After all, you know that ActiveX is supposed to help your system run some programs, right. So why not download an ActiveX control when you are prompted to do so? It is for this reason that Microsoft has developed the ActiveX security system.

In Windows XP operating system, this security system is embedded in the Internet Explorer. The registry of the system automatically blocks the download and installation of any ActiveX component in the Registry of the computer. Apart from this is an ActiveX component has to be installed the computer will prompt the user to check for the signature of the component. If the ActiveX component is registered with Microsoft the ActiveX is verified as authorized and is allowed to be installed in the registry of the computer. If the ActiveX component is not verified the systems offers the user a choice of not installing the ActiveX control.

Some Advise For Internet Explorer Users

If you are using Internet Explorer you should ensure that you are using a security level set to Medium or above in Internet Explorer. You can do this by going to tools in IE and select 'internet options' then click on 'security' and slide the level to medium or higher. Now, after reading about the entire automatic downloads of controls and stuff, it makes sense to download a free window registry cleaner and use it periodically to clean the registry of your system. There are enhanced registry XP cleaners to clean the complex registry of Windows XP as well.

Clean IE- internet explorer's history

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Clean IE- internet explorer's history

Whenever you browse to a website by typing in the Internet link (URL) directly in the address bar of Internet Explorer, the URL will be saved, and can be viewed by pulling down the list. Due to privacy issue, you may want to remove, delete or clear the history of links from Internet Explorer address bar.

To clear or the history of the address bar in IE only, without deleting your IE History folder, which contains history of links to pages that recently visited, follow these steps:

Close all Internet Explorer windows, then click on Start, then Run.

Run Registry Edit by typing RegEdit in the text box and click OK.

In Regedit, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Typed URLs

Delete all of the registry keys (in the form of urlx, where x is 1, 2, 3,….), or just the keys that contains URL link that you doesn’t want to appear in address bar.

Note: If you delete only certain keys, make sure the remaining keys are in sequential order start from url1. Or else all keys will be corrupted and deleted. One way to avoid the problem is the select the URL that you want to keep in the IE address bar before performing above steps, so that the selected links will go on top, hence occupying lower sequence number.

On newer version of IE such as IE8, just drag down the history list in the Address Bar, and click on the Delete (red delete mark) that appears when hovering the mouse over the entry.

Delete A Single URL from IE History

Another way is by right clicking on Start Menu, then click on Properties. Go to Start Menu tab, then click on Customize… (whichever that selectable). Then go to Advanced tab. Under the Recent documents box, click on Clear List will clean the history of IE address bar, as well as listing of recent documents being used or opened.

Alternatively, in Internet Explorer, go to Tools, Internet Options (or go to Control Panel, then click on Internet Options). In General tab, click Clear History. Note that this will also wipe off all your browsing and visited websites or web pages history as well.