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Tweak - Disable multiple threads of iexplorer.exe

No comments December 2nd, 2009 admin

You may run this simple Tweak to disable multiple threads of iexplorer.exe. This will increase the performance of Windows, but since a single thread is active, your IE performance may impact due to this change.

I recommend backing up the windows registry before executing the .reg file, so that you can restore the registry if you feel that the performance is impacted.

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3 Tips to Speed up your Internet Explorer 8

No comments October 24th, 2009 admin

If you are experiencing performance issues with Internet Explorer 8, after upgrading from a previous version, you may try the below 3 tips that help to boost the performance up to 10 times. However, IETips.net recommends to read/review the entire article before installing any third party software.

Tip # 1 - Re-registering the ActiveX COM interfaces:

Here are some of the tips that may help you to speed up your Internet Explorer 8 (These tips also work on IE 7)

Speeding up with a simple Tweak. Our article on speeding up Internet Explorer has already helped many IE users. You may visit the link below and perform the steps recommended:

Speed up Internet Explorer 8

Tip # 2 - Re-registering the Internet Explorer files:

There are lot of DLL files, and OCX files that should be re-registered to resolve certain issues. As it is a time consuming process of doing it manually, I recommend using the Fix IE utility that was launched by IETips.net along with TWC. You may use the link below to learn more about it and download the FiX IE utlity.

Fix IE Tool

Tip # 3 - Installing Google Chrome plug-in:

Microsoft does not recommend that Internet Explorer users install Google Chrome Frame, in order to avoid having more security issues. So, judge yourself before installing the Google Chrome.

However, most of the reviews says that the Google Chrome plug-in has boosted the performance up to 10 times and do not report any security issues.

You may download the Chrome plugin and install from the following link:

Google Chrome Plug-in Download

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popup says IE 8 is not installed

No comments October 23rd, 2009 admin

I was looking some cool IE Addons, and thought of looking at the IE Add-on website. The moment I keyed in the website using my Firefox browser, I’ve got a pop-up that says my IE is still not updated and prompted me to Download IE8. I was surprised to see that message and immediately checked the version of my IE browser No problem, I’ve IE8 only.. but was baffled for some time and started googling out for a solution in the MS website.

Atlast, I was able to find some solution at http://social.answers.microsoft.com by Jack - Support Engineer, MSFT, Moderator who says “This is happening because IE8 is not showing as an installed update even though you have it installed on your machine. When Automatic Updates runs, it compares the list of installed updates on your machine against the list of available updates. Since IE8 is not shown as installed on your machine it triggers the pop up “nag” screens to appear on your machine. ”

I’ve immediately checked the Windows update to find if IE 8 is installed. Strange, I can see it in the list.

This made me to research on this issue further and atlast after an hour was able to find a solution. I just uninstalled the current version of IE8, and downloaded it and installed back. It didn’t prompt the message again

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“Address is Not valid” message after upgrading to IE8

No comments October 22nd, 2009 admin

Issue - You may experience “Address is not valid” error while visiting any website after upgrading to IE8.

Cause - This issue happens because of one of the below reasons:

Incorrect IE Prefixes
Issues with IP/DNS
Incorrect DLL files
Incorrect IE Files

Resolution: To resolve this issue, perform the below recommended steps. You may have to check the status by opening some website after performing each step.

Incorrect IE Prefixes: The Windows registry has the prefixes for HTTP, HTTPs, FTP etc., and incase if these are corrupted, you may experience this issue. To resolve, you need to change some of the registry keys. Instead of directly registering the keys, you may download and run the IEPrefix Fix from this LINK.

After unpacking, right-click the fixieprefix.reg file and run as Administrator. Restart Windows once you are done with this step.

If the issue still persists, proceed with the next solution.

Issues with IP/DNS: You may need to flush the DNS and IP. Perform the following:

1. Click Start, Run.
2. Type CMD and press Enter.
3. Type “ipconfig /flushdns” and press Enter.

Incase, if your Internet provider has assiged a static IP address, then only perform the following, else skip.

4. Type “ipconfig /release”
5. Type “ipconfig /renew”

If the issue still persists, proceed with the following.

Incorrect DLL Files: Incorrect IE DLL files may also cause this issue. We recommend Downloading our Fix IE tool and run it. You need to restart your PC after performing this step.

If the above solutions doesn’t resolve the issue, you need to reset IE settings. Visit this LINK to know more and download the utility.