8th May 2002

For some odd reason, Gretchen has the ability to mess with settings in Internet Explorer. I do not want her to change the 'Install on Demand,' 'Show friendly URLs,' or 'Enable page transitions' options. My only recourse is to make IE's Advanced tab disappear. Fire up the Registry editor and flail to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Control Panel. Here, you may need to create a new DWORD Value named: "AdvancedTab" (sans quotes). Set it to "1" to turn the tab off; set it to "0" (or remove the entry) to return functionality. Need another browser tweak? Far be it from me to stop myself from sharing information. Steve Green e-mailed me the other day with a screen shot of a problem he was encountering. By the way, taking screen shots is a great way to troubleshoot problems on remote computers. Anyway, his links toolbar was set up in a unique fashion. Each 'link' had a Favorites icon (like the little Lockergnome logo you get when you visit our Web site). To top it off, these shortcuts were each listed as a single letter. We were shown as 'L' (naturally). Neat!