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Recently when I open a new Chrome browser window, the window opens as normal with the cursor blinking in the Address Bar. But when I type in a search term or URL……. the text does not appear in the Address Bar. I first need to click with the mouse on the address bar to make it active. This...

This may not be the right place for this question, but if not, maybe someone can direct me to a forum as good as this one? I have been considering changing from Google Chrome to Internet Explorer because of reported lower power consumption of Internet Explorer. I have experimented with...

I don't know where else to ask this so I am posting this here: A few days ago I installed a third party program which installed a hijacking search engine called snap.do, I then proceeded to uninstall it but now I can't connect to the internet altogether, so I run a virus scan and a few things...

Hi I've had Belarc Advisor on my computer for years, but in Windows 10 I'm having a strange problem. When I open it, it opens in Openoffice Writer instead of my browser? It' supposed to open in you browser by default. I have looked for some place to tell it what I want the default program to...

I must do a factory restore and i want all of my bookmarks on my internet explorer bar to be saved on a flash drive but i cant find the right folder. i go into the owner folder click on favorites and click on favorites bar but it doesnt list all of the favorites that are actually on my internet...

I get notified by Firefox that windowsforum.com requests to activate Adobe Flash even if there is no video or anything else that would need this plugin - maybe I miss something, though. How come?

I recently upgraded to windows 8. and started using latest IE browser. I cant access to most of the websites having a pod casts. i noticed when i tried to open sound cloud website. IE says only secure content displayed and the webpage says switch to classic sound cloud. i changed the settings, i...

How can I stop the pop up ads on windows 8?

I am using windows 8.When I set my home page in internet options and save, it will not stay set even after clicking on APPLY and OK. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks

Since I have had Win 7, 64-bit installed. The colors of visited and unvisited links in both IE 10 and Firefox 17.0.8 ESR have been annoyingly similar to my aging eyes. Unvisited is a muted blue and visited is a muted purple only slightly different from the blue. In XP my links were an obvious...

is there any option like firefox has > about:config i want to check and edit IE configurations through browser, so IE has any feature like that? Thanks

I am wondering how to REALLY block popup messages. I keep getting popup messages, which are really friggin' annoying. I've downloaded and installed several popup blockers, but nothing seems to stop these damn things from popping up all the time. This is a Windows7 issue. Is there anything...

Ive set the IE as default from Internt otions of IE( dektop version). Now the app from start screen wont do anything. Th e desktop version works but It can be launch frpm the startscreen either. I have unpined and pined to startcsreen but no avail. That browser choice that keeps staying on the...

Just did a fresh install of Windows 7. Installed IE10. I'm sure I'm overlooking something obvious, but every time I go to websites previously visited, I am required to log in with my user name and password, even though I check off "Remember me". What am I doing wrong? Thank you.

This page provides the Group Policy Administrative Template files for Windows Internet Explorer 10. Source: Link Removed

I screwed up my laptop with W7 royally. I updated my free virus detector and it downloaded a toolbar I did not want. I uninstalled it, I went up to settings, addons and unchecked it and it was STILL THERE and it would not let me search on Google. OK so I did a search for Toolbar cleaners and...

Using Windows 7, my "C" drive is a small solid state drive and all I wish to have on it is my Win 7 operating system. My "D" drive is mechanical and 500 Gig so I would like to have as much as possible on that drive. How do I move my Favorites folder to my "D" drive and have it always...

Microsft recently made this statement regarding the use of IE10 64Bit: Much thanks to Neowin.net. How to enable 64 bit IE10 for the desktop in Windows 8 - Neowin

I log onto a site using IE9 (for some reason this particular site doesn't work properly on other browsers) and it kept remembering my username and password. I went into the internet options and changed the the autocomplete setting to not remember passwords or data added in forms, as well as for...

If you run Windows 8 on a desktop PC you are going to want to tweak Internet Explorer to avoid the Metro version of the browser. Link Removed