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How to Set Up Extranet

An extranet is a private Internet network that allows users to securely browse and share files. An extranet is useful for businesses looking to work together and share sensitive information....

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Does Adblock Plus Work for IE?

Discover how to install the Adblock Plus extension in Internet Explorer on Windows computers and block intrusive or unwanted ads.

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How to Mute Background Ads

One of the big downsides of multimedia on the Web is that for every video you want to watch, it seems there's an unwanted one muttering at you from a hiding place somewhere on the page. These ads are...

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How to Get the Browser to Change the Colors of Previously Visited Links

Your Internet browser will change the color of the links on your screen from one color to another to signify when you have already visited the page. By default, the links will change from blue to...

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How to Remove Waiting for Google-Analytics.Com to Redirect

The Google Redirect virus is a browser hijack virus that alters the DNS settings on your computer and can also settle in your router, preventing you from updating your anti-virus software. Not...

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How to Fix Redirecting Browser Hijacking

One common type of computer virus is a redirecting browser hijacker. These infect your computer and alter your system's proxy and DNS settings, making it impossible to connect to certain websites --...

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How to Enable VBScript

By enabling VBScript in Internet Explorer, you will be able to visit websites that use that particular scripting language. Microsoft developed the VBScript scripting language as an alternative to the...

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Does Deleting Cookies Affect Favorites?

When it comes time to clean the cookies from your Web browser for one reason or another, you may worry that it will affect your favorited or bookmarked websites. Directly, deletion of cookies will have...

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How to Download Large Files Using Anonymous Proxy Servers

Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have restrictions on how much data you are allowed to download from the Internet. When you download large amounts of data, you ware often contacted by the ISP...

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What Are the Functions of the Refresh Button on a Computer?

The Refresh command is one of the fundamental navigation commands offered by Web browsers. Because of the way browsers receive and display data, the Refresh command is necessary at times to ensure that...

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Why Am I Getting Pop Ups & Redirects?

Although redirects are normal practice on the Internet, pop-ups are automatically blocked in Windows systems. Malicious software is able to manipulate the settings of Web browsers and the computers on...

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How to Uninstall Alert.dll From Conduit

If your computer is running slowly, you might have noticed alert.dll listed under Processes in your Task Manager. You're right in thinking this isn't a normal Windows process. In fact, it's associated...

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How to Make Unity Web Players Work on Windows

Unity Web Player is a Web browser plug-in that renders browser games in full 3-D. Games written with the Unity engine can be played inside a Web browser window like Flash browser games, but have access...

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How to Make My Web Screen Smaller

A slip of the mouse can render your Web browser window larger than usual or make all the text and images in your browser an uncomfortably large size. If you've accidentally zoomed in on your browser or...

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How to Remove Suggestions

When you begin typing a search term or a URL into a browser's address bar, the browser automatically returns suggested URLs. If you would prefer to turn off the suggestions, you can tweak your settings...

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Blurry Pictures & Videos in Adobe Flash Player

Adobe Flash Player, a software plug-in released by Adobe, works with Internet browsers to play streaming media online. If you discover that images and videos appear blurry in Adobe Flash Player, you...

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What Is Download Updater (AOL LLC)?

The Download Updater (AOL LLC) connects to AOL's network to periodically check for updates to the version of AOL currently installed on your computer. The program runs continually in the background and...

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JavaScript or Scripts Are Being Blocked

Updating a Web browser or changing its security settings can sometimes block JavaScript and other scripting languages from running on websites. If certain website features stop working, or you receive...

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How to Use an SOL File

Adobe Flash stores cookies in SOL, or "shared object local," files. If you have an SOL file, you can place it in the appropriate folder on your computer to use it. For example, Flash-based Web browser...

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When I Put My Mouse Over a Word it Automatically Translates it for Me

Google Translate is Google's powerful foreign-language translation application, which, at the time of this writing, can translate any Web page or snippet of text in 64 different languages. Google's...

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Does the Computer Memory Contain Deleted Browsing History?

Most people who surf the Web are well aware that their browsers keep track of visited websites. Even after deleting the history, traces of the images you've viewed, the videos you've watched and the...

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415 Unsupported Media Type

The error message "HTTP Error 415 unsupported media type" means the server is refusing a request because it is in an unsupported format. This rare problem could be caused by a client error. More...

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How to Customize My Browser's Toolbars

Reorganizing your browser's toolbars can help you save time by allowing you to access the buttons or bookmarks you use most frequently in less time. Most modern browsers, such as Internet Explorer and...

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Firefox's CSS Top Margin Is Not the Same As Chrome & IE

If you’ve labored on your website trying to make everything look perfect and later discovered it looks wacky in another browser, you're not alone. What might appear to be a finished masterpiece in...

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Private Browsing in OS X

Sometimes you don’t want people to know what you are doing on the Web. Maybe it is someone’s birthday, and you want the gift to be a surprise, or maybe you would rather not have that website track your...

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How to Delete Individual History Entries

Most browsers, such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox, maintains a history of Web sites you visit. This record potentially allows other users to view your surfing habits. Although...

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Purpose of Private Browsing

All major Web browsers include a private browsing mode (links in Resources), but before you switch to it, you should make sure you understand what it does and what it doesn't do. Essentially, your...

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How to Keep Pop-Up Ads From Coming Up

You have different ways of dealing with pop-up ads depending on the Web browser you use. Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Safari all have built-in pop-up blockers. You can choose...

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How to Get Rid of a Webcrawler

Webcrawler programs often automatically install a toolbar in your Internet browser, which can be both annoying and unsafe. Removing the toolbar, and the program responsible for it, is fairly simple,...

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How to Officially Remove Inbox.com From My Computer

If you've been surfing the Internet extensively, then you may have installed the "Inbox.com" toolbar. This toolbar is designed to help you find information faster, without having to leave your current...

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How to Cut, Copy & Paste a Web Link

Cutting, copying and pasting are frequent actions used to handle text and content in documents, emails and on the Web. Windows contains several keyboard shortcut keys that allow users to quickly cut,...

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How to Copy Your Google Cookies

The Google Chrome Web browser is a great utility that runs well on many systems and does not seem to have the large memory requirements other browsers have. It is also easily customized to your...

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How to View a Web Page in Normal Screen Mode

Four of the five major Web browsers--Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Opera--allow you to view websites in both normal and full-screen mode. When a website is displayed in full-screen, the...

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How to Clear Cookies on an HP Laptop Computer

Cookies are text files left in your Internet browser's memory. Site owners use cookies to track user information and activity including personal preferences, usernames and passwords or demographic...

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How to Get My Printer Back on My Browser

A printer icon on your browser will save you the time of having to search for the command in the menu or memorize the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+P). Firefox and Internet Explorer both have a printer...

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How to Change Where Downloads Go

In between checking your email, updating your Facebook page and surfing your favorite sites, you may occasionally wish to save a picture, document or attachment onto your computer. All the popular...

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How to Find My Browser Bar

The browser bar inside your Internet browser is often confused with the search bar, which is often located right next to it. The key difference is that the browser bar is used to type in the Web...

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How to Get Your Home Button Back on the Internet Screen

The "Home" button in an Internet browser links back to your home page. Rather than typing in the home page's URL, you can simply click the "Home" button and the page will appear. The "Home" button for...

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How to Test Autofill

AutoFill, or AutoComplete, is a handy feature that comes preloaded with most web browsers. It allows users to save data entered into commonly-visited websites and address and payment forms. Once you've...

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How Do I Install AOL Desktop on My PC?

First launched in the 1990s, AOL Desktop is a one-stop software suite that allows you to access all of AOL's services -- such as AOL Mail or AIM -- in addition to browsing the Web. You can install the...

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How to Remover a Brazzers Bar

Brazzers is an adult site that offers various types of memberships to its customers. As a member, you have the ability to download the free Brazzers community toolbar. This add-on works with your Web...

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How to Block AdClick

AdClick has pop-up ads that may become annoying to any Web surfer. However, you have the option to block those pop-up ads from invading your computer. You have the option to change the settings for...

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How to Upgrade the Flash Player in Vista

The Adobe Flash Player is a browser-based application that runs on Windows Vista and many other platforms like Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris. The Flash Player supports HD video and offers quick graphics...

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How to Make ZoomTown Your Homepage

ZoomTown is a free high-speed search engine portal that you can customize for quicker search queries and fast search engine results. You can make ZoomTown your homepage by making a few adjustments to...

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How to Unblock Stuff From Adblock Plus

Ad blockers offer a handy way to filter out annoying advertisements from websites. Although Adblock Plus is generally quite accurate when it comes to what it does and doesn’t block, there are...

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How to Find Something Hidden on a Website

Webmasters usually display all content of the web page so visitors have access to everything. However, some attempt to hide certain content, especially text, in an attempt to gain search engine...

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How to Convert a Hyperlink to a Shortcut

Bookmarks are handy for revisiting URLs, but creating a desktop shortcut allows you to launch your default browser and navigate to the URL in a single action. Any hyperlink you find online can be...

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How to Stop Looping Ads on a Webpage

If you encounter an animated website advertisement that repeatedly plays over and over, you know how annoying these looping ads are. These marketing efforts are typically found in pop-ups or on the...

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How to Fix a Redirect to 127.0.0.1

The IP address 127.0.0.1 is reserved for your "local host, which is your computer. You may at times see an error screen informing you that your browser is unable to connect to the website you entered...

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How to Stop Google Links From Turning Purple

When you search for something on Google, if some of the results are purple, it simply signifies that you have already visited that Web page and have a record of it in your browser history. To remove...

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