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Software: Update your Non-Tech friends pc day…. 11/25/11

computer Microsoft via their (LINK) Windows Team Blog for Internet Explorer (http://windowsteamblog NULL.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/11/23/get-ready-for-update-your-parents-browser-day NULL.aspx) is calling this coming Friday 11/25 “Update your Parents Browser” day. However, in the opinion of Tech Geek and More that idea is narrow minded.  Every Tech, Geek or just knowledgeable computer person has a few people (because no one has just 1) that call regularly whenever something goes wrong on a pc.  You know the call, “I wasn’t doing anything and then all of a sudden………” .  So Tech Geek and More is actually asking its readers to expand on the idea, and use Friday while your visiting non-tech friends and family, and update all software on the pc. Just remember, the more updated they are, the better chance you have of them NOT calling you to fix it.

Just an idea of what should be updated

- Adobe Acrobat

- Adobe Flash

- Adobe Air

- Adobe Shockwave

- Oracle Java

- Anti-virus (If they don’t have a current one install a free one)

- All Windows Updates

- All Office Updates

- All installed browsers (Not just IE)  

- **Plus review for any other installed programs that you know should be updated.

 

If you don’t want to take to long doing this, you can visit (LINK) Ninite (http://ninite NULL.com/), where you can install the latest version for a majority of the software. 

 

If you need ideas as to when, the (LINK) Windows Team Blog (http://windowsteamblog NULL.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/11/23/get-ready-for-update-your-parents-browser-day NULL.aspx) lists Top-10 Moments to Update…. (Windows Team Blog story by Scott Armstrong (http://windowsteamblog NULL.com/members/sarm34/default NULL.aspx)) 

 

Top-10 Moments To Update Your Parents’ Browser

10. When they’re manning the fire extinguisher dealing with the yearly deep-fried turkey accident.

9. When they’re telling your cousins “when I was your age” stories.

8. When they’re face down in the eggnog punch.

7. When they’re fighting over the right way to carve a turkey.

6. When your mom kicks you out of the kitchen for peeling potatoes “the wrong way.”

5. When they’re sent to the grocery store at 2PM on Thanksgiving Day for extra cranberries.

4. When they’re sitting at the Adult’s table (rally the other kids to help).

3. When they’re standing in a Black Friday line.

2. When they’re untangling Christmas lights.

And the number one time to update your parents’ browser is…

1. When they’re distracted by grilling you about when you’re going to get a real job, when you’re going to settle down, and when you’re going to give them grandchildren.

So watch for these moments and many more to help them make the upgrade to a modern web browser today. Web developers everywhere will thank you!

Happy Thanksgiving from the IE team!

Tech: Removing the In place Ad’s in Internet Explorer – Also known as Vibrant Ad’s

computer%20science *This was originally posted in 2010, but recently I’ve seen this question come up a lot more than usual, so a repost for those with this Vibrant Ad issue.

 

     One of the questions I keep getting asked involves “pop up ads” that appear as highlighted words on Webpages.  What you will see when browsing on various sites is that key words will be highlights and double underlined (As shown on example below), and when you place your mouse over the key word a “related” ad to the key word will appear.

 

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     There are a couple of problems with this, 1st off the ad pops up as long as you move your mouse, so you DONT get a choice on if you want to see it or not and 2nd, allot of those “related” ads may be related to the key word itself, but may have nothing to do with the topics you are searching for.  As in this post from a tech site, about a story the new i-Phone leak and when my mouse goes over the story, I get an ad for BP…..

 

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So what do you do if you want to get rid of these ads.  Here are the steps…..

1 – On the top of Internet Explorer – Go to Tools –> Internet Options\

 

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2- Once in Internet Options, click on the “Security Tab” –> The on Restricted Sites –> The on the button that says Sites

 

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3 – Once there in the box that says “Add this website to the zone enter the following 3 websites.

  • *.vibrantmedia.com
  • *.intellitxt.com
  • *.kontera.com

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4 – You will need to refresh the webpage at this point by clicking on page refresh on the top of Internet Explorer.

 

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*NOTE – Example ads are bigger in post than normal for example purposes.

 

**NOTE – Sites that offer Inline ads do this as a revenue stream so that they can offer viewers services for cheap or free, while making money from the ads.

 

***NOTE – Tech Geek and More does NOT use any form of Inline ads and if anyone comes across any form of inline ads within the TGM site, we ask to be notified immediately.  Please send a screen shot if possible with details of what you see and from which posting.  (SOAPBOX) Even though TGM is looking for ways to help with the cost of running the TGM site, it is felt that inline ads ruin the browsing experience and as such does not want those type of ads for its visitors. (END SOAPBOX)

Software: Internet Explorer 9 – Is now available

microsoft After a year of previews, beta’s, and release candidates, Microsoft has now released the latest version of Internet Explorer 9. Internet Explorer 9 includes the following (From Microsoft – LINK: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/help/ie-9/whats-new-in-internet-explorer-9 (http://windows NULL.microsoft NULL.com/en-US/internet-explorer/help/ie-9/whats-new-in-internet-explorer-9) )

Notification Bar

The Notification Bar that appears at the bottom of Internet Explorer gives you important status information when you need it, but it won’t force you to click a series of messages to continue browsing.

Search in the address bar

You can now search directly from the address bar. If you enter a website’s address, you’ll go directly to the website. If you enter a search term or incomplete address, you will launch a search using the currently selected search engine. Click the address bar to select your search engine from the listed icons or to add new ones.

New Tab page

The redesigned New Tab page displays the sites you visit most often and color codes them for quick navigation. A site indicator bar also shows how often you visit each site, and you can remove or hide the displayed sites anytime you like.

Enhanced tabs

Tabbed browsing allows you to move easily between multiple open webpages in a single window, but there might be times when you want to look at two tabbed pages at the same time. Tear-off tabs allow you to drag a tab out of Internet Explorer to open the tab’s webpage in a new window, and Snap it for side-by-side viewing.

Download Manager

Download Manager is a powerful new feature that keeps a running list of the files you download from the Internet and notifies you when a file could be malicious. It also lets you pause and restart a download—if you have a slow internet connection—and shows you where to find downloaded files on your computer. You can clear the list at any time

Pinned Sites

If you visit certain webpages regularly, Pinned Sites allows you access them directly from the taskbar on your Windows 7 desktop.

Streamlined design

The first thing you’ll notice when you open Internet Explorer 9 is the compact user interface. Most command bar functions, like Print or Zoom, can now be accessed by clicking the Tools button, and your favorites appear when you click the Favorites button. Otherwise, Internet Explorer gives you the basic controls you need, and lets the web take center stage.

Download links for Internet Explorer 9 leaked a few hours early, as spotted by Winrumors.com (http://www NULL.winrumors NULL.com/internet-explorer-9-rtm-download-links-now-live/):

Windows  7 (x86 version (http://download NULL.microsoft NULL.com/download/C/3/B/C3BF2EF4-E764-430C-BDCE-479F2142FC81/IE9-Windows7-x86-enu NULL.exe))

Windows 7 (x64 version (http://download NULL.microsoft NULL.com/download/C/1/6/C167B427-722E-4665-9A40-A37BC5222B0A/IE9-Windows7-x64-enu NULL.exe))

Windows Vista (x86 version (http://download NULL.microsoft NULL.com/download/0/8/7/08768091-35BC-48E0-9F7F-B9802A0EE2D6/IE9-WindowsVista-x86-enu NULL.exe))

Windows Vista (x64 version (http://download NULL.microsoft NULL.com/download/7/C/3/7C3BA535-1D8C-4A87-9F1D-163BBA971CA9/IE9-WindowsVista-x64-enu NULL.exe))

*NOTE – Internet Explorer 9 is NOT supported on Windows XP.

Software: How-to fix: When Internet Explorer gives you “Page cannot be displayed” error

microsoft  An issue I’ve been dealing with recently involves Internet Explorer unexpectedly coming up with the message “This page cannot be displayed”, when surfing but only on some websites.  Sometimes it is the entire page with that message, sometimes its only part of the page.

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(I have found 2 solutions that have helped clear up this issue.  I suggest trying solution #1 and seeing if that corrects things and then moving to solution #2 if the issue continues.) The issue seems to occur because something inside of Internet Explorer gets “corrupted”.  To clear up the corruption you can do the following

Solution #1 – Clear Cookies and Temporary Internet files.

To clear cookies and Temporary Internet –

  • Close all open copies of Internet Explorer
  • Go to Start –> Settings –> Control Panel –> Internet Options

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  • When Internet Options opens –> Click on Delete (Middle of the page)

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  • When the Delete Browsing History opens –> Make sure that Preserve Favorites website data is unchecked and that Temporary Internet files and cookies have a check next to them.

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  • At this point click on Delete (at the bottom).  Once the system finishes removing your temp files and cookies, you can close the Internet options windows by clicking ok.
  • Now open Internet Explorer and try one of the sites that wasn’t working again.

Solution #2 – Reset Internet Explorer to “Factory Defaults”

Sometimes the issue with Internet Explorer can be caused by a toolbar, or add-on that is just not working properly. If Solution #1 didn’t fix your issue, try the following steps.  (Again this is done with Internet Explorer closed.)

  • Go to start –> settings –> Control Panel – Internet Options
  • In the Internet Options Window –> Go to the Advanced Tab
  • Then Click on the Reset button (towards the bottom of the box)

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  • The following Window will open –> click on Reset**. (See Below if you want to know what changes with this reset)

(Prior to this reset make note what your homepage address is, as that will be changed back to msn.com)

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  • Once reset completed, close the Internet Options window by clicking ok, and then try one of the sites that wasn’t working correctly. 

This is what happens when you do the reset.

Reset Internet Explorer settings

By resetting Internet Explorer settings, you return Internet Explorer to the state it was in when it was first installed on your computer. This is useful for troubleshooting problems that might be caused by settings that were changed after installation. When you delete personal settings, some webpages that rely on previously stored cookies, form data, passwords, or previously installed browser add-ons might not work correctly. Resetting Internet Explorer to its default settings does not delete your favorites, feeds, Web Slices, and a few other personalized settings. See the table below for a complete list of all settings and information about whether they are reset or maintained.

Resetting Internet Explorer’s settings is not reversible. After a reset, all previous settings are lost and cannot be recovered. Rather than resetting everything, you might want to reset specific settings or delete your webpage history. For more information, see the links at the bottom of this topic.

Internet Explorer settings that are affected by a reset

The following table describes what will happen to various settings when you reset Internet Explorer.

 

Settings categories

Items affected

Settings that are deleted

  • Disabled toolbars and add-ons

  • Websites added to intranet, trusted, or restricted zones

  • Websites added for special cookie handling under the Privacy tab

  • Websites allowed to use pop-ups under Pop-up Blocker settings

Settings that are reset to Windows, manufacturer, Internet provider, or corporate defaults

  • Home page (for information about backing up your home page tabs, (SUGGESTED – NOTE WHAT YOUR TABS ARE)

  • Search providers, tabbed browsing settings

  • Colors, languages, fonts, and accessibility settings (General tab)

  • Security settings for all zones (Security tab)

  • Advanced tab settings

  • Privacy tab settings

  • Pop-up blocker, AutoComplete, SmartScreen Filter, and Zoom settings

  • Page setup, toolbar, and text size settings

  • Feeds settings (sync and notification, not feeds themselves)

  • ActiveX controls that are not on the pre-approved list (reset to opt-in state)

  • Toolbars, browser helper objects, and browser extensions are disabled

Settings that are deleted (Delete personal settings is selected)

  • Browser history, temporary Internet files, cookies, form data, and stored passwords

  • Typed URL information, menu extensions

  • InPrivate Filtering data

  • Explorer most recently used list

Settings and items that are maintained

  • Favorites

  • Feeds and Web Slices

  • Content Advisor settings

  • Pre-approved ActiveX controls

  • Temporary Internet file (cache) path settings

  • Certificate information

  • Internet Programs (e‑mail, instant messenger, and other programs associated with Internet use)

  • Internet connection, proxy, and VPN settings

  • Default web browser setting

  • Toolbars are not restored

Alert: Be careful shopping this coming Cyber Monday (11/29) as the bad guys are looking for easy victims

computer%20science As always the bad guys are online, out to try and steal from unknowing victims this holiday season.  With the popularity of Online Shopping, it has never been easier for a bad guy to steal from you without ever having to leave his home.  The following post below comes from Panda Labs (LINK: http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/blackhat-friday-and-cybercrime-monday/ (http://pandalabs NULL.pandasecurity NULL.com/blackhat-friday-and-cybercrime-monday/) ), showing how crooks are manipulating search engines to trick users.  As always, just because you are shopping online that doesn’t mean that you don’t have top pay attention.  Always make sure to keep your Cyber Guard up.

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Black(hat) Friday and Cyber(crime) Monday

  • by Sean-Paul Correll (http://pandalabs NULL.pandasecurity NULL.com/author/sean-paul-correll/)

You may be in for more than you bargained for if you plan on looking for the latest Black Friday or Cyber Monday deals online.  Cyber criminals are quick to capitalize on new opportunities and have already done so by optimizing their Blackhat SEO campaigns to infect those looking for those hot ticket item deals.

The following image is a malicious search result aimed at innocent users looking for Black Friday deals at a popular U.S. based retail chain:

Best Buy/Black Friday Malicious Search Result (http://pandalabs NULL.pandasecurity NULL.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/bestbuy_malicious_search NULL.png)

Best Buy/Black Friday Malicious Search Result

Clicking on the link in the Firefox browser will redirect you to a fake Firefox “update” website, which will then infect your computer with fake antivirus software:

Fake Firefox Update Website (http://pandalabs NULL.pandasecurity NULL.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/fakefirefoxupdate NULL.png)

Fake Firefox Update Website

Clicking the link in Internet Explorer (or any other browser) will lead you directly to the fake antivirus scan page:

Rogueware "Fake Antivirus" Page (http://pandalabs NULL.pandasecurity NULL.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Roguewarepage NULL.png)

Rogueware “Fake Antivirus” Page

Tech: Removing the in place ads from your browsing – Internet Explorer…..

 computer%20science One of the questions I keep getting asked involves “pop up ads” that appear as highlighted words on WebPages.  What you will see when browsing on various sites is that key words will be highlights and double underlined (As shown on example below), and when you place your mouse over the key word a “related” ad to the key word will appear. 

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     There are a couple of problems with this, 1st off the ad pops up as long as you move your mouse, so you DONT get a choice on if you want to see it or not and 2nd, allot of those “related” ads may be related to the key word itself, but may have nothing to do with the topics you are searching for.  As in this post from a tech site, about a story the new i-Phone leak and when my mouse goes over the story, I get an ad for BP…..

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So what do you do if you want to get rid of these ads.  Here are the steps…..

 

1 – On the top of Internet Explorer – Go to Tools –> Internet Options

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2- Once in Internet Options, click on the “Security Tab” –> The on Restricted Sites –> The on the button that says Sites

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3 – Once there in the box that says “Add this website to the zone enter the following 3 websites.

  • vibrantmedia.com
  • intellitxt.com
  • kontera.com

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4 – You will need to refresh the webpage at this point by clicking on page refresh on the top of Internet Explorer.

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*NOTE – Example ads are bigger in post than normal for example purposes.

**NOTE – Sites that offer Inline ads do this as a revenue stream so that they can offer viewers services for cheap or free, while making money from the ads.

***NOTE – TechGeekandMore does NOT use any form of Inline ads and if anyone comes across any form of inline ads within the TGM site, we ask to be notified immediately.  Please send a screen shot if possible with details of what you see and from which posting.  (SOAPBOX) Even though TGM is looking for ways to help with the cost of running the TGM site, it is felt that inline ads ruin the browsing experience and as such does not want those type of ads for its visitors. (END SOAPBOX)

Software Recommendation: Bookmark Checker for your Web Browser (Free)

am-deadlink AM-DeadLink (LINK: http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm (http://www NULL.aignes NULL.com/deadlink NULL.htm)) detects dead links and duplicates in browser bookmarks and text files. If a bookmark has become unavailable you can verify and delete it permanently. Additionally you can download FavIcons for all your Favorites and Bookmarks.

AM-DeadLink can check the following resources:

  • Internet Explorer Favorites
  • Firefox bookmarks
  • Opera bookmarks
  • URLs from tab delimited text files
  • URLs from comma separated text files

AM-DeadLink can download FavIcons for:

  • Internet Explorer Favorites
  • Firefox bookmarks
  • Opera bookmarks

And More: A Microsoft viral ad that well I just cant explain

     Microsoft has created a few viral (video’s for online showing) video’s in its time, however this latest video, I cant see how someone approved this one.  The video which is called  “O M G I G P" (or Oh my god I’m gonna puke) is a video to promote Internet Explorer 8 with privacy mode (also known as porn mode).  I’m seen this video and well I can’t put words to it so I’ll let it speak for itself.

**WARNING: I FOUND THIS VIDEO FUNNY BUT DISTRUBING AS WELL, IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH (OR EASLIY OFFENDED) DO NOT WATCH**

OMGIGP Video Link (http://www NULL.youtube NULL.com/watch?v=xB9fhjnJcB0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eneowin%2Enet%2Fnews%2Fmain%2F09%2F07%2F02%2Fmicrosoft%2Dpulls%2Dsickening%2Dinternet%2Dexplorer%2D8%2Dads&feature=player_embedded)

WEBSITE: Microsoft has just turned on BING

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No matter what anyone thinks of the name, Microsoft has now officially turned on Bing (Not related to Chandler).  Bing ( www.bing.com (http://www NULL.bing NULL.com) ) is expected to be Microsoft’s baby that will get it back in the fight with the search king Google.  I have tried Bing so far and I cant say I have an answer so far, its better than I was expecting.  All my searches this morning have been run 2x’s.  Once on Google and once on Bing.  So far the Web searches for me today have been very much equal, but on picture and video searches Bing has actually done a better job.  I also like the form Bing uses to show me both video and picture search, including being able to run the video directly from the search page.  So far Bing is starting out promising**, but we will see what happens…

*But that’s just my opinion.

How To: Internet Explorer Shortcuts

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Some people (“Us old school folks) know that there was a time that a computer could be used without using a mouse.  The feature referred to as Keyboard shortcuts still exists today (even though most current users don’t have a clue that its there). 

So in the interest of not getting this question 1,000,000 more times here are some very helpful shortcuts for Internet Explorer.

ALT+D – Put focus in the address bar, and select whatever text is there
CTRL+ENTER – Put ‘http://www.’ and ‘.com’ before and after whatever text is in the address bar
ALT+LEFT – Go Back
ALT+RIGHT – Go Forward
BACKSPACE – Go Back
ALT+HOME – Go Home
F11 – Enter/Exit Full Screen Mode
F5 – Refresh
CTRL+F5 – Refresh from the site your on (Forces re-download of page instead of refreshing from cache)
ALT+V, B – Toggle the Status Bar
ALT+A – Open the favorites menu; then type the first letter of the favorite you want
F6 – Move focus between major UI elements (Toolbar->Explorer Bar->HTML Page->Toolbar)
TAB – Move focus between minor UI elements (Link->Link in a page, Address Bar->Go Button, etc)
SHIFT+TAB – Like TAB, but the other way
SPACE – Scroll the page down (same as the PageDown key)
These shortcuts apply to all normal windows applications, not just IE:
ALT+SPACE, X – Maximize the window
ALT+SPACE, R – Restore the window
ALT+TAB – Switch between top level windows
SHIFT+F10 – Display the context menu (similar to Right-Clicking)

     This list is just for Internet Explorer, there are more shortcuts for Windows and other software.

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