Tips and Tricks for Using Internet Explorer. Outlook and Outlook Express Differences. This article outlines the basic differences between Outlook and Outlook Express. Note: Outlook Express is an email client from Microsoft that shipped with Windows XP and Windows 2000. For Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, you may want to install Windows Live Mail instead. Refer to this Microsoft Web site for more information: Trying to download Outlook Express? ( The Microsoft Outlook family of messaging and collaboration clients is based on the recognition that home and business users have different needs. Outlook Express Outlook Express is the e-mail client that is included with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x, the Microsoft Windows 98 operating system, the Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) operating system, the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating systems, and Microsoft Office 98 for the Macintosh.
Outlook Outlook is Microsoft's premier messaging and collaboration client. Outlook 2002 New Feature. This article describes a feature that lets users configure Outlook to read all non-digitally-signed e-mail messages or nonencrypted e-mail messages in plain text format. This feature was added to Outlook 2002 in Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 1 (SP1). This feature also allows system administrators to configure policies that require users to read all non-digitally-signed e-mail messages or nonencrypted e-mail messages in plain text only.
Note Digitally signed e-mail messages or encrypted e-mail messages are not affected by this update and cannot be changed by a system policy. Digitally signed e-mail messages or encrypted e-mail messages are read in their original formats. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: ( ) How to obtain the latest Office XP service pack To add this feature automatically, click the Fix this problem link. . ( ) Applies to. OE Security. Show Desktop Icon. Outlook 2000 Requires Outlook Express. This article describes why Microsoft Outlook requires the installation of Microsoft Outlook Express. Microsoft does not support the use of Outlook 2000 without Outlook Express installed. Outlook shares files with Outlook Express. If you install Outlook with the Internet Mail Only (IMO) option, Outlook will not run without Outlook Express installed.
If you install Outlook with the Corporate or Workgroup (CW) option, Outlook loses much of its functionality. Shared functionality between Outlook and Outlook Express includes the following key components: Management of Internet AccountsUse of SMIMENews Reader For additional information about issues you may encounter if Outlook Express is not installed, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: ( ) OL2000: Installing and Using the Outlook Newsreader ( ) ( ) OE Data Back Up and Recovery. This article describes how to back up and to restore the following items in Microsoft Outlook Express: MessagesThe Address Book Mail accounts News accountsIf you use multiple identities in Outlook Express, repeat the steps in the "More Information" section for each identity, and separate the backup data accordingly. This process will make it easier to restore each identity. Outlook Express is an email client from Microsoft that shipped with Windows XP and Windows 2000.
For Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, you may want to install Windows Live Mail instead. Refer to this Microsoft Web site for more information: Trying to download Outlook Express? Try Windows Live Mail instead ( This article is intended for a beginning to intermediate computer user.You may find it easier to follow the steps if you print this article first.
How to back up Outlook Express items Step 1: Copy message files to a backup folder. AutoComplete Function Analysis. For anyone using Internet Explorer (IE) you may have noticed a feature allowing IE to essentially 'fill in the blanks' for you in some control boxes (such as URL, user name, password, etc.). This feature is a function called 'AutoComplete' and is part of the Intellisense Technology incorporated into IE by Microsoft. IntelliSense has been included in IE4 and all subsequent versions. Their are two benefits behind this function: one being a time savings (through reducing the time necessary to input data) and the other being a memory savings (through remembering past strings so you do not have to). As a high level overview, AutoComplete works in the following manner: as you type in a string previous entries are pulled from a storage area and you may elect to simply select one of these entries.
In order to better understand the AutoComplete function, I have decided to present the following information. To start, Edit Controls are used by the MS Win32 API. IE 6 Flashing Toolbar. IE 6 Uninstall. OE Answers. IE 6 Content Adviser. This step-by-step article describes how to use the Internet Explorer 6.0 Content Advisor to control access to Web sites. You can configure Internet Explorer to control the kinds of content users can view in the browser.
You can control content in two manners. You can use content rating systems, or you can specify Web sites. Administration of content-rating systems is done by independent organizations. Internet Explorer defaults to the ratings from the Internet Content Ratings association. Enable the Content Advisor Feature In Internet Explorer, click Internet Options on the Tools menu.Click the Content tab.Under Content Advisor, click Enable to open the Content Advisor dialog box.NOTE: For this rating system to work, the Web page must be rated by the author. Specifying Web Site Access Creating a Supervisor Password Troubleshooting After you enable Content Advisor, sites that are not rated are also blocked. Article ID: 310401 - Last Review: December 5, 2003 - Revision: 3.2. IE Security Zones Registry Settings. Privacy in Internet Explorer 6 Internet Explorer 6 added a Privacy tab to give users more control over cookies.
There are different levels of privacy on the Internet zone, and they are stored in the registry at the same location as the security zones. You can also add a Web site to enable or to block cookies based on the Web site, regardless of the privacy policy on the Web site. Those registry keys are stored in the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\P3P\History Domains that have been added as a managed site are listed under this subkey.
These domains can carry either of the following DWORD values: 0x00000005 - Always Block0x00000001 - Always Allow Internet Explorer 5.0 and later versions of Internet Explorer Internet Explorer security zones settings are stored under the following registry subkeys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings registry subtree. Settings, but only The ZoneMap. IE 6 Service Pack 1. Index.dat Files and Primary IE Folders Structure. Index.Dat Files and Primary I.E.
Folders from the author of PurgeIE - Purge Cache, Cookies and Tracks for Internet Explorer Windows 8 Note - PurgeIE, PurgeIE Pro and PurgeFox were designed to work with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Prior to Windows 8, Internet Explorer utilized files named Index.dat for indexing the Cache, Cookies and History information. Beginning with Windows 8, Index.dat files are not used. Each of Internet Explorer's primary folders (directories) - Cache, Cookies and History make use of an indexing technique to maintain information. For Cookies and for Cache, the Index.dat files are basically URL entries and pointers to the associated real files.
URL is an acronym for Uniform Resource Locator which is geek for an Internet Address. For History, no files are referenced (this is the collection of URL entries used for AutoComplete and for controlling the highlighting of imbedded links on the Web pages). The Default Structure of the Primary I.E. Cache Folder: Notes - OE Configure. IECustomizer.com. My Computer Security Zone. ActiveX Inline Data Streaming. If you apply the MS01-058 update that is described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article, the Inline Data Streaming functionality of ActiveX is disabled: ( ) File Vulnerability Patch for Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 This issue may occur because Inline Data Streaming presents a security vulnerability. The MS01-058 update includes the MSRC 944 security fix that disables BASE 64 Inline Data Streaming to ActiveX controls by default. Inline Data Streaming for ActiveX will remain disabled in future security updates. WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system.
To enable Inline Data Streaming after you apply the MS01-058 update: To disable ActiveX controls in the Internet zone: NOTE: The security settings of the Trusted Sites Web content zone uses the Low security setting by default. . ( ) IE 6 Resources. Cannot Open New IE Window. When you click a hyperlink in an e-mail message or on a Web page, or right-click a hyperlink on a Web page and then click Open in New Window, you may experience one or more of the following symptoms: Nothing occurs. The new window may be blank. You may receive a scripting error message that is similar to the following error message: No such interface supported.Internet Explorer may not respond when you click Print or Print Preview in the File menu. When you try to connect to Web folders, you may receive the following error message: The current operation could not be completed because an unexpected error has occurred. Note: To troubleshoot problems with links not working on webpages or in email messages in Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, or Internet Explorer 9, click the following link to view the article on the Microsoft website: ( Nothing happens when you click a link in Internet Explorer Windows XP and Windows 2000 only.
IE 6 New Search Assistant. OE FAQs. IE Security Zones Default Settings. OE Files and Settings. IE and OE Information. IE Registry Tweak. The purpose of this tweak is to speed up your browser, you should find that after performing the tweak, web pages will appear in a fraction of the time that they used to. Modems and ISDN lines will see the most dramatic speed increase, but ADSL and cable users will also see a marked improvement. How does it work? Internet Explorer 4, 5 & 6 have been designed to comply with Hypertext Protocol 1.1.
This dictates that a web browser should draw no more than two stream of data at any one time. However, your browser is capable of getting many more times that, and so if you were to increase the number of streams that it is looking for, you will vastly speed up the whole process. Back up the registry The first thing that you should do before attempting this tweak is to back-up your registry, this will avoid any major foul-ups (nothing should go wrong, but just in case): 1. 2. 3. 4. File dialog box: Save in: Desktop File name: Registry Backup Save as type: Registration Files Export range: All 5. 6.