Internet Explorer Puts ‘Borders’ Round Your Images
Nov17

Internet Explorer Puts ‘Borders’ Round Your Images

KB ID 0000823  Problem Chrome is my browser of choice, so I don’t look at my website with IE often. (Yes I know that’s bad practice for a webmaster). So I was surprised when I opened my home page and saw this. IE does this IF your image is a hyperlink. Solution Option 1: Edit your Hyperlink If you have a lot of them this is quite time consuming, but you can add the attribute of border and set it to zero within the IMG section of...

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IE9 –  Stop “Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons”
Nov17

IE9 – Stop “Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons”

KB ID 0000466  Problem This morning my boss asked me “Why every time I open Internet Explorer does it ask me this?” To which I replied, “I use Chrome so I don’t know, But I’ll find out.” Solution A brief internet search returned, just set the “Ask me later to a nice long time”. But that’s still not disabling it. If truth be known its a good thing, i.e. is trying to be helpful and...

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Internet Explorer  “Only Secure Content is Displayed”
Nov17

Internet Explorer “Only Secure Content is Displayed”

KB ID 0000502  Problem I was trying to do some online VMware training today, and this was really annoying me, every link I clicked up it came. Popup: Only secure content is displayed – What’s the risk? – Show all content Eventually after clicking show all content (A LOT) I could take no more, and had to disable it. Solution Warning: There’s a sound reason for this, over https all traffic is encrypted with...

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Internet Explorer 9
Nov17

Internet Explorer 9

KB ID 0000330  Problem The IE9 Beta came out a few days ago so I thought I’d take a look, bad news for Windows XP users as you can only run it on Vista and Windows 7, download it here. I used to be a dyed in the wool IE user, and wondered why on earth anyone would want to use Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc. That was until I actually installed and started using Chrome. The fundamental problem I have with IE is, its function in life...

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IE Crash / Restart Loop
Nov17

IE Crash / Restart Loop

KB ID 0000329  Problem I downloaded the IE9 Beta today to give it a test drive and maybe write a review for the site, and it failed miserably and got stuck in a crash loop. Error: Internet Explorer has stopped working In fact I had to kill it with Task Manager as it kept re-spawning new instances that also crashed.   Solution 1. Launch the new IE9 in “Extensions off” mode, Click Start > Type in “iexplore.exe...

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