Internet Explorer is part of Windows and there are third party applications that uses IE engine as a built-in web browser. However it can be easily misconfigured or corrupted since there are many settings in the Internet Options. Even spyware loves to hide in Internet Explorer thanks to BHO feature. Badly coded and unstable add-ons which can also contribute to problems in Internet Explorer.
If you encounter weird problems on Internet Explorer, one way to make sure that you didn’t get the settings wrong is by checking it with another computer but since there are many options, doing this will surely tire you out. One of the easiest way you can try if you encounter any problems on Internet Explorer is by resetting it to default settings with one click.
Although Microsoft advices that you should only reset internet explorer settings if your browser is in an unusable state, but we have tested it and it works perfectly. It doesn’t corrupt or touch anything on your Windows operating system but merely just disable toolbars and add-ons, resetting default web browser settings, privacy settings, security settings, advanced options, tabbed browsing settings and popup settings. You can even opt to delete personal settings so that you get a clean Internet Explorer.
To reset Internet Explorer, click Tools on the menubar, and go to Internet Options. Then go to Advanced tab and click the Reset button at the bottom of the Window. Enable the checkbox if you want to delete personal settings and click Reset to start the process. For changes to take effect, you will need to close Internet Explorer and reopen again. When you open IE the first time after resetting, the Set Up Windows Internet Explorer 8 window will open.
The normal way of logging in to Windows is via password and some laptops comes with fingerprint reader which enables the user to login using fingerprint. For the first time ever, Luxand has created a software called Blink! which allows user to login to computer using face recognition. This is a more convenient way of logging in compared to typing a password. The algorithm that has been implemented in the Blink! face recognition is very advanced up to a stage where it can even recognize that it is you even if you have a new haircut, swapped glasses for contacts, shave off beard and mustaches, applied makeup or dyed your hair, Blink! will let you in to your PC no matter what.
It is easy to implement face recognition login using Blink!. After installation, you will be asked to create a face template where you have to first look at the webcam, and then slowly turn your face from right to left and vice versa until Blink! completes creating the face template. Then you will need to key in the windows login password and it’s done.
Before using Blink!, make sure that the user account is password protected. If the user didn’t set a password, Windows will automatically login bypassing the face recognition. Blink! is free and is compatible with Windows Vista and Windows 7 32bit only.
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In Windows 7, you can get documented help by clicking the Orb button and then select Help and Support which is located at the bottom right. A Windows Help and Support window will open allowing you to search for help topics. As for Microsoft Office 2010, clicking the question mark icon at the top right will also open a Help window specially for the particular office application.
If you didn’t know, there are two help methods which is the online and offline. The offline help is something like searching through help file that is saved locally onto your hard drive. This is much faster but can be outdated. To get latest help topics, you can toggle searching in Online Help which requires an active internet connection but it is slightly slower for users with slow connection since the information is pulled from Microsoft knowledge base servers.
By default Offline Help is selected and you can toggle to Online Help by clicking the Offline Help text at the bottom right of Windows Help and Support. Select Get online Help and you can start searching. As for Microsoft Office, it is very similar to Windows 7. At the bottom right of the Help window where it says Offline, click once and select Show content frmo Office.com.
Google is by far the best search engine ever today. Most people uses them to search for information they are looking for but some people uses technique that allows GoogleBot to crawl and index the page but when a real visitor gets in the page, they are either asked to sign up or register. This can be done by recognizing the header whenever anyone access the page. If the header tells the website that it is a web browser, then the visitor is forwarded to a registration page but if the header reports that it is a Google Bot or Yahoo Bot, then the website grants access.
To bypass the restriction, you will need to somehow fake the headers to tell websites that you are a Google Bot. Instead of hacking the web browser or installing any third party extension, you can easily access a webpage cloacking as Google Bot by using BeTheBot.
All you need to do is visit BeTheBot website, enter the URL that is restricted when you try to access but appears perfectly in Google search and click the Go button. A frame will open below with the webpage pretending that you are a Google Bot. If a restriction has been implemented, then you should be able to see the website content without registering.
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Microsoft Word is one of the most powerful text editing software which supports many functions. If you copy a webpage and paste it on Microsoft Word, the font size and type will be maintained as well as any hyperlinks. It is useful but hyperlinks on Microsoft Word documents can be annoying because it is underlined with a blue color. It is possible to manually remove the hyperlinks by right clicking on the link and select Remove Hyperlink.
That would work for a few hyperlinks on the page but what if there are many of them? One solution is to paste them to notepad and then copy it from Notepad again and paste it to Word. This would remove all formatting of the text plus the hyperlink.
Another easier way would be selecting all of the text by pressing CTRL+A and then press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to remove the hyperlinks on all of the text. This shortcut key works on all versions of Microsoft Word. Weirdly this method works but if you select all the text, right click and select Remove Hyperlink, that it won’t work.
