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ok, so i use internet explorer. big effin deal right? wrong! every time i open it up, the explorer help toolbar or whatever is on. i hate the damn thing because its so annoying. so i close it. easy right? wrong again! sure, it is gone for that visit to IE but next time i get into it or click a link that opens a new window, there it is again, taunting me at the top of the page.


its dumb :hmmm:  

I didn't even know IE had a 'help toolbar'

It doesnt....

itll be installed from somthing you downloaded that latched itself to IE

u should probably run ad-aware. that's what i had 2 do when my brother downloaded all kinds of crap

Adaware and Spybot.

Also, for real IE sidebars that wont go away:
1) Close ALL IE sessions
2) Create a new IE session.
3) Close the offending item.
4) Close that IE session.
5) Continue as normal

wow, you're very intelligent ss. i do that though, and it GETS FREAKIN OLD!!

It gets old? :blink:


Anyhow, make sure you have both of these installed:
Adaware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/ (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/)
Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=mirrors (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=mirrors)

nahhh, i'm too lazy


yeah, it gets old, like A-NOY-ING.

If you've got a genuine IE toolbar, the steps I gave should fix it.
If it's not a genuine toolbar then it's very likely spyware which adaware or spybot can remove.

This is unrelated to the rest of this thread, but the title of it fits

How can I get IE to always open its windows maximized?

I really dont know, I was wondering this at somepoint.

open it - maximise it- close it - open it again

Then after you reset, its still not full screen.

Extract the attached file to your Windows directory.
Make sure maxie.txt points to where your Internet Explorer is installed.
Either: Change your IE shortcuts to point to the maxie.exe location
Or: type 'maxie [URL]' into the Start>Run dialog.
Will always launch IE in maximised mode.

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SS you are a geek LOL  

Was there every any doubt? :P

well given your avatar, you just seem like more of a dark person or something... :huh:  

I'm that too. :P

geeks can't be dark? dang it, that totally distroys my image

I should have made myself more clear.  IE opens as a full window when I run it using the shortcut.  It’s when I click on links that open new window (like wise, when I Shift+Click a link) that’s when the window isn’t maximized.  
Sorry about that.

Well what i've done, if its any help, is stretch the minimized version to fill the screen. that way when you click a link and its minimized, it fills the screen anyway. but the geek ss might have a better way :rolleyes:  

LOL
The problem is that I violently throw the curser over to the upper right hand corner and click; that's how I close windows on this computer.  Maybe I should get a mouse like the one on my other computer.  It has five buttons, one closes windows for me...I'm lazy :D  

*gestures to his keyboard* i have a close window/application button next to my right key

Thats what i do too.

alt + F4 = closed window

foo

*still wants all IE windows max
mouse in right hand using the computer
book/notes in left hand doing HW

I know how that goes...

still could stretch the minimized window to fill the screen like i said.

Blah, you're just being awkward.

Easiest way to acheive what you want is to use Firefox & tabs.
I'm not hacking IE just to save you the half a second it takes to maximise. :P

well you just have all the answers dont you?

I wasn't expecting you to.
*drop-kicks IE
I'll try it out when I have the time and inclination  

i kinda like hangin with the geeks :rolleyes:  :P  

:king:
I dub thee Galmort,
*taps him on each shoulder with a sword
‘Sir Peanut Gallery’
 :P  

Just tap Alt, Spacebar, X whenever you open a new window.  That'll work for almost anything windows-based, and you can do it very quickly with practice.

ok ive lost the bar at the bottom that tells you whats going on, how the hell do i get it to come bk cus it always drives me up the wall

:o OMFG!
I thought I knew all the keystrokes!  :unsure:
*bows before Hornet  :D  

View>Status Bar.

And I prefer right-clicking on Taskbar & pressing X, because generally I've just shift-clicked a link so have both hands over the appropriate places.

that has happened to me too :( . SS, you should change your title to "Braniac"?

Nah, no point stating the obvious. ;)

 
My first laptop was a brick - in every sense - bought for ~20 quid at a car boot sale.  It had Windows 3.1 installed, and if you've ever used 3.1 (I'd imagine SS has) you'd have picked up several obscure shortcuts!  The "Spacebar" button was visible in 3.1, but you can still get to the functions by using the Alt+Spacebar combination, or clicking the program icon in the title bar.

SS, if you can press the X button, then why not press the Alt and spacebar buttons while you're at it, as they're next to each other? :blink:

 

Well, I've used 3.11. :)


Because my hands don't want to do that, it feel un-natural.

o jesus 3.1 is painful as far as trtying to do anything is concerned, but you get access to just about everything on it  

Does anybody know where screenshots from IE are put? i hit properties, find target...and looked around but found nothing.....

On your clipboard.

Open a graphics app and press Ctrl-V.

thank you, that is dumb

Not really. It makes perfect sense.

It's only games that don't do it, due to their nature.

Bahhh...then you have to save it yourself <_<  

Yes. Unless you get a special app. :P

well i'm not an advanced computator like yourself ss...

Search Google for something along the lines of 'free screenshot application' and see what comes up.
There'll be a lot of shite, but some of it should be good enough and do what you want. :)

yea, oh well i'm too lazy to do that, and not lazy enough to not do what i already have to do

understand? :P  

No, but I'll just nod and agree anyway.

*nods*

*agrees*

:rolleyes: ....good night

Goodnight? It's 6:30am in the morning here! :P

meh, just had to make it an even 105 posts :P . it was midnight here :mellow:  

fuckin a, i'm pissed off again(whats new?) what the hell is sqwire.com? i rebooted my computer, and a whole bunch of shit i already deleted was back on there, and then i open IE and it had changed my homepage to sqwire.com, and taken away my address bar...i can't get it back :miffed: ...so right now i have to be on crappy msn. <_<

Oh got them! got it back i'm so smart. no im not, but i got it :)  

Restart in safe mode (press (& hold?) F8 on startup, just before Windows starts loading, right after your hard-drive and cd/dvd drive information has shown.
Then run Adaware and Spybot (goto www.bpsite.co.uk/links.html if you don't have either of them) on their full modes a couple of times, especially spybot - make sure there is nothing in the startup list... can't remember what section that's in, under Tools possibly, have a snoop around.
Once you've run them both completely, reboot and go into Windows normally.
Run them both again for luck :), then start>run "iexplore w.google.com" and Tools>Internet Options> "Use Current" for the homepage options. Close the browser and start it normally. Hopefully Google will come up. If it does, restart your machine (or just login & out) and run IE again. If Google comes up (as it should) again, then you're probably fixed.

Hopefully that all makes sense & is easy to follow. :miffed:

:blink: ....uhhh was that all for not having the address bar or changing my homepage or what? because i already did both...

Er, that was me thinking you might have a trojan/adware installed. :huh:

uuuggh!!! it changed the homepage back to sqwire.com ...i hate fucking viruses i'm really pissed off atm...

alright Galmort, what progarm(s) did you install?  ;) things like gader are really hard to get rid of without adaware...
I would have thought that an updated adaware would have solved the problem  :(  

I haven't installed anything for a long time...

Including patches? <_<

well, i didn't catch that last post ss, sorry...even though you're gone.


but anybody, please help :miffed:  IE keeps freezing up on me all the time now, and when it does, everything fuses onto the desktop, like when i try to close another window IE: AIM window, it closes, but the image of it is still on the screen <_<  :angry:  

its like this, only usually worse :(  

that usually happens when some app is putting a heavy load on the cpu. hit ctrl-alt-del, go to processes. sort by cpu usage and see if you have some hidden app suckin up your cpu.

ok, thanks.


IE itself takes up like 19,000 k :miffed:

what the hell is explorer.exe?

look at cpu usage, not memory usage. itll be a number 0-99.

and thats windows explorer.  

wtf is system idle process? it takes up like 95 but it won't let me end the process :angry:  

thats fine....its just a placeholder basically. Its not actually using the cpu.

ok

man, thank god i have you people here LOL

dammit, i'm gonna through my comp out the window. wtf? i'll tell you later  LOL , its nice outside, byeybye

Um ok, just dont close anything that you dont know what it is....

i hate this goddam contraption

whoever invented computers should be shot. :hmmm:  

i got tons o problems with my computer too...

i start it up and threres a million processes taht are liek hprt3r5745.exe and its pissin me off- anyone got an idea?

nope, but i never used to get too many pop-ups but now, i open ie and the brigade attacks.  :(  

start->run, type msconfig and hit enter. go to the startup tab. uncheck anything that you dont want starting up.oh, and get a good anti-spyware type program. thats probably what all that crap is.

woa cool it works thanks  :D


 

*pets fraggy*

he's our computer problem bitch :)  

what the hell is this flashlightsearch.com that i keep getting redirected to? its pissing me off. :angry:  

Some spyware crap?

yea because its the site the crappy underlined link took me to...if you remember me complaining about that.

I got adware like you said and it got rid of the link, but i don't know what else i can get rid of....i dono. help? :but:  

Hmph, someone needs to create a single tool to fight spyware in one easy go.
It's so tempting to go learn all the relevant things and do it myself, but I've already got lots to do.

So I'm just going to have to tell you to go through each of these applications and run all the cleaning/blocking features you can find in them:
Adaware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - www.spybot.info
SpywareBlaster - www.widerssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html

And do it in safe-mode too, because otherwise any spyware in memory will just re-create itself.

Oh and there are more stuff here that might help:
http://www.wilders.org/free_tools_m.htm (http://www.wilders.org/free_tools_m.htm)

w00t! i'm satisfied ^_^  

might aswell post this here. 2 things.

1) when ever i click a download link or a vid im greated with this asshole (http://searchpage.cc/1507/)

if its share where i cant find the damned source, its even a banned page on my net options screen.


2) since this morning after about 2 hours on the web any net page that trys to open a hyperlink which brings up a new window does not and crashes itself.

See my message two posts up - do that and see if it still happens.

think i fixed the first one but ofcourse i cant really tell ¬¬

still dealing weith the latter, might know of a way though


EDIT ok thast was my main concern nothing wrong now, just gotta hope  the dls are working too