If your’e logging on as a new user and Internet Explorer has not yet been ran, then it wants to run the “Setup Windows Internet Explorer Wizard”.
On just one machine with one user that’s fine, but if you are logging in all over the place, with multiple credentials, this can get quite annoying. Also you might not want your domain users having to do this at all, for security reasons.
Solution
On a Single (stand alone) machine.
1. Click start and in the run/search box type gpedit.msc{enter}
2. Navigate to > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer > Prevent Running First Run wizard.
Note: In older versions of Windows its called, ‘Prevent Performance of First Run Customize settings‘
3. If you enable the policy you can set it to either:
a. Go directly to home page.
b. Go to the “Welcome to Internet Explorer” Web page.
1. On one of your domain controllers > Start > Administrative Tools > Group Policy Management Console > Either select and existing policy or create and link one to the COMPUTERS you want this policy to affect. Then edit the policy.
2. Navigate to > Computer Configuration Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer > Prevent Running First Run wizard.
Note: On older Windows Platforms this is called ‘Prevent Performance of First Run Customize settings.‘
3. If you enable the policy you can set it to either:
a. Go directly to home page.
b. Go to the “Welcome to Internet Explorer” Web page.
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 improve your browsing experience. But if you want to kill it all together heres how.
On a single machine
1. When you installed/Updated to IE9 it added some new policy templates, the one controlling IE9 is called inetres.admx
2. That means we can control what IE9 does with a policy, Click Start and in the search/run box type gpedit.msc {enter}. The group Policy Management Window will appear.
3. Navigate to:
[box] Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer [/box]
Locate “Disable add-on performance notifications” and open it.
4. Enable the policy > Apply > OK > Exit the Policy Editor.
In a Windows Domain Environment
Note: On older domains (Server 2003 for example) you will need to download and import the administrative templates to manage these settings via group policy, you can download the template from Microsoft.
1. On your domain controller , Start > Administrative Tools > Group Policy Management Console > Either create a new policy and link it to your targeted COMPUTERS or edit an existing one, then navigate to:
[box] Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer [/box]
Locate the setting “Disable add-on performance notifications” and open it.
2. Enable the policy > Apply > OK > Exit the Policy Editor.
3. Then either reboot the clients, wait a couple of hours, or manually run “gpupdate /force” on them.
Remove “Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons” via Registry
I got an mailed a question this weekend;
I too want to get rid of the IE9 – Stop “Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons” dialog but only having Vista Home Premium, your solution (using gpedit.msc) is not available. Also, I cannot add a Local Users and Groups snap-in to the Microsoft management Console.
How can I get rid of this bloody annoying feature in IE9?
Kind regards
Brian
Answer
1. No Problem, essentially the group policy editor is just changing registry entries anyway, on your machine Start > In the Search/Run box type > Regedit {enter}
2. Navigate to;
[box] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Policies [/box]
3. Create a NEW KEY called Ext > Within that key create a new DWORD (32 bit) value called DisableAddonLoadTimePerformanceNotifications and set its value to 1.
4. If your machine is 32 bit then you have finished.
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 SSL/TLS and cannot be seen by someone analysing network traffic, if you are sending password or credit card data you might not want to do this.
1. Click Start and in the search/run box type inetcpl.cpl {enter}.
2. Select the Security tab > Internet > Custom Level.
3. Locate the “Display mixed content” section and enable it > OK.
4. Select Yes to confirm, and restart Internet Explorer.
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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 should be to show me web pages. At some distant meeting at Microsoft in the past, some ginger haired code monkey cretin decided that the browser would be able to do all sorts of stuff like Windows Explorer can. Cue years of code exploits, holes that needed to be patched and general scorn being heaped upon IE.
Solution
Download and Install: Easy to find – and installs pretty quick – then asks for a reboot (why a browser install needs to reboot the entire OS! – I’ll tell you why, read the second paragraph on this page).
First Run: Crashed and fell over, took me over an hour to fix.
First Successful Run: Looks nice and clean very “Chrome-esque”.
In fact, hang on a minute! It looks VERY Familiar indeed! In fact is looks exactly like the browser that was in the Longhorn Beta 6 years ago? except they dropped the tool bar and added tabbed browsing.
Its not remembered any saved passwords but prompts me to save any newly entered ones, again this is nice, clean and simple. But will be a problem if you’ve forgotten any usernames and passwords your browser enters for you.
New Features:
Integrated Address and search bar.
Thumbnail tabbed viewing – Though touted as a new feature this has been with us since IE8. The difference is now you can embed code and controls in the thumbnail tabs.
Pin to Taskbar – You can now pin individual sites to your Windows taskbar. Each site will retain its own icon (if it has one), and its own jumplist.
Under the hood
Despite my flippant remarks above, IE9 is supposed to be fully HTML5 compliant and uses hardware acceleration. I’ve seen some benchmarks that claim that it will even out perform my usual weapon of choice (Google Chrome). I want this to be a much better browser than its predecessors but I’ll run with it for a while to see if it converts me back.
Things I’ve found on my test drive
1. Bad: The Lightbox links on my web site don’t work – there’s some Java-ness it does not like.
2. Bad: By default the tabs go next to the address bar – that’s fine but more than six or seven tabs open and they get a bit too small – if there is a way of unlocking and moving things its not simple to find.
3. Good: The php stuff on my site seems to work OK.
4. Good: Dragging tabs away from the browser spawns separate browser instances (like Chrome), and combined with the Windows Aero snap feature, its easy to stack sites side by side.
5. Not Sure: Clicking the browser windows causes it to “dim” clicking it again causes it to return to normal – I don’t know if this is a feature or a problem 🙂
6. Good: The new tab page is very much like the Chrome one, this was the one feature I was missing while using IE9, the Microsoft one does not look as nice, but it does the job.
The IE9 New Tab Page
And the Chrome one
7. Bad: Close Tabs to the Right/Left is not on the tabs “right click menu”, I use this a lot while in Facebook, close other tabs is there, but I might not want to close all the other ones.
8. Bad: Flash support? what flash support, cant see any of my YouTube videos, or my corporate web site that’s built entirely in flash. (Before you email in – yes I’ve installed Adobe Flash 10 with all the latest updates).
9. Good: I Like the new download manager very Firefox/Chrome like.
10. Bad: Any Java related download manager software does not appear to work.
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Normally I simply connect a new MSA to a clients network, and it gets it’s address from DHCP. Then I can get the address for the DHCP Scope, and point my web browser at it.
Yesterday I was starting with new virtual infrastructure and had no DHCP. With the G1 and G2 models, you got a console/serial cable and could just terminal in. With the G3 they have replaced the serial socket with a mini USB socket. Each time I put in a new P2000, I think “I wonder how that USBCLI socket works?” Yesterday I had to find out.
Solution
The Quickest Solution – is to connect the MSA to the network, and if it cannot get a DHCP address it automatically gives itself 10.0.0.2/24 on controller A and 10.0.0.3/24 on controller B.
1. If you do have DHCP running, connect your MSA and run the MSA Device Discovery Tool, (On the CD that came with the device).
2. Once you know the IP address, you can connect with your web browser.
Connect to and Manage your MSA via the USB/CLI Cable
1. For your machine to see the MSA as a device, you need to install a driver, there is a copy of the drivers on the CD that came with the device.
Note: Windows 7 users, use the Windows 2008 Drivers or use this one.
2. Install the driver.
3. Connect the USB lead from the MSA controller to your machine, TAKE NOTE of the COM port number it’s using.
4. Now you can use whatever terminal emulation program you prefer to connect to that COM port. (I prefer HyperTerminal, or you can use Putty if you want something a bit lighter).
5. Set the following, Bits per second = 115200, Data bits = 8, Parity = None, Stop bits = 1, and Flow control = None.
6. You will need to press {enter} to connect, then login.
