Friday, January 06, 2006

Blue bar with additional options missing in My Computer or Control Panel


The Problem:-When you open a window from My Computer or the Control Panel, and you don't see the blue bar with additional options.

Cause:-This happens if Common Tasks are in turned off.



Resolution:-Open My Computer or,Control Panel,go to Tools then Folder Options,Check Show common tasks in folders.Click OK/Apply.

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

How to delete a particular item from the History list

The Problem:- How can I delete a particular item from the Internet History list if I don't want to clear the entire list?

Resolution:- IEHistoryView allows to delete the selective URL while keeping the rest of the URLs intact.

Download Link:-http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iehv.html

To manually clear the History entries:-

How to clear the History entries in Internet Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=157729

Sunday, January 01, 2006

How to turn off image toolbar

The Image Toolbar feature in Internet Explorer 6 lets you quickly e-mail, print or save images from Web pages. The Image Toolbar feature is turned on by default.But if you wish you can easily turn it off.

How to turn off image toolbar:-

In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
On the Advanced tab, under Multimedia, clear the Enable Image Toolbar check box.Click Apply/OK.
Restart the machine.

Note:-
The image toolbar does not display for all images. The image must be at least 200 x 200 pixels to use the image toolbar.