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I am using W7, home premium on 1 year old HP desktop computer. Recently, I was having trouble accessing videos from you tube, email and other sites. I had been using adobe flash player 9 and I was told to upgrade adobe flash and to get version 11. I installed version 11 but it would not play...

I do a web search and visit a selected site, there after I return to the web search page. Previous viewed websites are highlighted in purple, and non viewed website are blue. Maybe I'm going color blind, but sometimes it's difficult for me to distinguish between purple and blue. How can I change...

Hi I just installed win 7 for the first time. And i want to ask about EI 9 and blurry text. When i open IE 9 then on some site sthe text seems a littel blurry/fuzzy Actualy this text im writing here has a small blurry look. I tryed to disable smooth edge text and i did severals cleartype...

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I am trying to get to like IE9, but am aggravated by the over-enthusiastic tooltips popping up all the time. The favorites menu (under the star icon) is practically unusable. Does anyone know how to turn off the tips popping off all over the place? It may sound like a minor annoyance, but...

1. Internet Explorer 9 -> Press 'Alt' to access menus -> Tools -> Internet options Link Removed 2. Internet Options -> 'General' tab -> Change how webpages are displayed in tabs -> Settings Link Removed 3. Tab Browsing Settings -> Enable Quick Tab (Ctr+Q) Link Removed 4...

Hi I have asked this question on several forums including the Chrome forum here, witch no one ever looks at, so I'm giving it one more try in hopes that someone has run into something like this before. My wifes laptop will not keep the zip code set to our area in Chrome. Everything that...

Whenever I came back to these forums I have to re-enter my login name and password. Other forums offer an automatic re-login with the login name and password stored in the local browser cookie. I HAVE enabled the cookie windows7forums.com but the auto-re-login does not work. Is...

IE8 is not remembering what I type in search bar. Also nothing is being remembered that I type into web pages ie user names etc. I hate to mention XP again but I could fix it there, can't find a way round it with 7 though. Thanks.

A little background for those who wondering what is Direct2D and DirectWrite Hardware Acceleration Direct2D : Direct2Dis a hardware-accelerated, immediate-mode, 2-D graphics API that provides high performance and high-quality rendering for 2-D geometry, bitmaps, and text. The Direct2D...

Since installing Windows 7 and IE8, I've noticed that whatever was last copied to the clipboard gets pasted into the search field when I open Google. I'd love to stop it doing this but I can't find a control anywhere. Does anyone know how to turn this off?

In my old laptop with W2003, autocomplete worked well when I typed my email address in an email-address box (after typing the first letter, several email addresses I use would show up and I just selected the one I wanted). My new laptop with W7 doesn't do that (I am using IE for browsing) and...

There's a website I'm trying to access, but unfortunately the website has some stupid operating system test that doesn't allow Windows 7 users to enter. Is there a way to make IE tell the website that my operating system is Windows XP while I'm actually running Windows 7? Here is a link to...

How can I lock the page size so it remembers my current setting without having to use the "page zoom " each time i start it . win 7 pro on new h/p laptop

Ok, I need some help because I've been trying to do this for a while and it's starting to drive me crazy. I've got Windows 7 and IE8. All I want to do is make it so whenever I open IE8 it defaults the window size to full. It bugs me a lot for some reason to have to maximize it from some weird...

After installing Windows 7 (32 bit, clean full install), I noticed my access to internet sites was intolerably slow (40-45 seconds minimum access time every time I tried to go to a new web site). I was using IE 8.0 that apparently installed with Windows. I also noticed an extraordinary number of...

If you even download software that changes your home page no matter how many times you try to change it in Internet options, it still reverts back to that page. I downloaded and installed this piece of crap................Extra DVD to Audio MP3 Ripper Here's how to get rid of it for good...

Hey all, I'm having an issue with Firefox not saving/auto-completing my passwords for websites. They all seem to save/auto-complete in IE, but with Firefox I need to manually enter the username and password every time I visit a website that I'm registered with. Anybody have any idea how I can...