From the category archives:
I got a question this week from a reader: Steve, we have a locked down environment and I have just about everything set the way I want it, but I still need to find a way of keeping users from deleting their Internet Explorer history. Sometimes we need to do a review of their computer [...]
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I installed Windows 7 on my ASUS Atom N270 Before I did that, I recorded how long it took to do a few things: -Copying a 45 MB file over the network -Boot Time -Shutdown Time -Memory used at idle, after startup -IE Launch time Then, after I installed Windows 7, I did the same, [...]
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday that a serious security hole was found in all versions of Internet Explorer. The flaw exploits the ActiveX plugin system in IE. If you use Internet Explorer, and are running flash – you are vulnerable. If you have any ActiveX control installed in IE you have a good chance of being [...]
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Microsoft released IE 8 for public consumption a few days ago. Microsoft’s Dean Hachamovitch, who leads the IE 8 development team, made the announcement during his keynote address at the company’s MIX09 conference going on in Las Vegas. While I still use Firefox daily, I can see that Microsoft has made every attempt to make [...]
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Back in 2006 we created an IE 7 blocking tool. It set a special registry key that would tell Automatic Update to totally skip IE 7 when it was released. Now the same can be accomplished with Internet Explorer 8. Yes, I do realize that it is still in beta, and has not even been [...]
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This tip is only for Vista….so I apologize in advance to those of you still using XP. In Vista you can easily clear your browsing history by going into the options of Internet Explorer. I have helped a few organizations that use this information after a spyware incident to determine where the problem came from. [...]
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I recently received an email: Dear Steve, I was going through google search and I came across your script. Please, how do I reset the network users home page to a particular website and make it permanent such that they would not change it? Thanks. Normally the answer would be to use group policy. But [...]
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