Ramblings, ideas, problems, and solutions

Tag: Internet Explorer

  • Remove the Edge tab button from Internet Explorer

    Microsoft seems to have decided to phase out Internet Explorer, and replace it with Microsoft Edge. This has resulted in an option to open new tabs in Edge, rather than Internet Explorer, presumably on the assumption that if people just spend more time with Edge, they will find that it is the better option. Regardless of how you feel about that – or about Microsofts offerings in the browser market in general, for that matter – the button can be annoying to users who, for one reason or another, find themselves using Internet Explorer be it through company policy, or by their own choosing.

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  • Inverted colors in Windows Media Player running in Internet Explorer

    A user logged a support ticket, saying that she was having problems playing streaming video in Internet Explorer. According to the ticket, it “doesn’t work”. The user would be away from work, but had left her passwords “in a secure place” (read: under her keyboard)…
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    I went to her computer, logged on, and tested a few video sites such as YouTube etc. I was unable to reproduce the problem. I sent the user a message, telling her to contact me when she returned to work.
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    When she returned, I had a look at her computer. It turned out that her problem wasn’t that it didn’t work, but rather that the colors were all distorted and inverted-looking. The error only occured on sites that streamed video for replay in Windows Media Player.
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    I checked out what version of WMP she was running, and predictably enough, she was running an ancient version of WMP. Armed with this knowledge, I updated WMP, and lo and behold; the problem was gone.

  • Unable to uninstall Internet Explorer 8

    The next version of Microsofts Internet Explorer is currently in public beta. Many of the beta testers are reporting that they are unable to uninstall the beta. The reason? They are running Windows XP SP3.
     
    Now, you can still uninstall IE8, it just takes a little more time, and effort. The first step to doing so is uninstalling SP3, which in turn should allow you to uninstall IE8.

  • A glance at different outlooks

    Following monday’s post a colleague of mine sent me the below picture. Although I’ll grant you it is oversimplifying things more than a bit, it still has a vein of truth in it, not to mention the fact that it is more than slightly amusing…

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  • Citrix: "ICA File not found" Error fix

    When accessing applications through Citrix Web Interface, users sometimes get the following error message:
    ICA File Not Found
     
    Having researched many possible solutions, the fix I’ve found is this:
     
    1: Open Internet Explorer
    2: Click Tools > Internet Options
    3: On the General tab, click the Delete Files button
    4: Restart the browser
     
    The cause seems to be that Citrix times out due to not finding the ICA-file because there are too many files in the cache.

  • Branding Internet Explorer

    Like me, you’ve probably been using the internet for a while, and may have noticed that sometimes Internet Explorer has a “provided by”-tag, looking something like this:

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