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III-194 If youre having trouble finding Web sites, you can use the autosearch function in Internet Explorer 3.0 to help you. Type go in the address bar, followed by some keywords that describe what you are looking for; Internet Explorer starts searching using its default search engine, Yahoo! To change the search engine, modify the following registry key.
Hive: | HKEY_CURRENT_USER |
Key: | Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl |
Value Name: | Default |
Data Type: | REG_SZ |
Value: | home.microsoft.com/access/autosearch.asp?p=%s |
Here are the values for some popular search engines:
Excite | www.excite.com/search.gw?search=%s |
AltaVista | www.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&q=%s |
Magellan | searcher.mckinley.com/searcher.cgi?query=%s |
InfoSeek | guide-p.infoseek.com/Titles?qt=%si |
Lycos | www.lycos.com/cgi-bin/pursuit?query=%s |
Yahoo! (plain search) | search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=%s |
Yahoo! (IE autosearch) | msie.yahoo.com/autosearch?p=%si |
III-195 To change the background of Internet Explorers toolbar, change this registry entry.
Hive: | HKEY_CURRENT_USER |
Key: | Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar |
Add the following value:
Value Name: | BackBitmap |
Data Type: | REG_SZ |
Value: | < fully qualified path and filename of any bitmap file > |
Restart Internet Explorer for these values to take effect.
III-196 Do you sometimes get that annoying blank page when you bring up Internet Explorer? To change it to something meaningful other than the ever-popular blank.htm, change this entry.
Hive: | HKEY_CURRENT_USER |
Key: | Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main |
Value Name: | Local Page |
Data Type: | REG_SZ |
Value: | D:\<system root>\System32\blank.htm |
The default value is listed above. Change it to any fully qualified path and file name. Restart Internet Explorer for this value to take effect.
III-197 Internet Explorer displays the most recent addresses in the Address box below the toolbar. This registry entry shows you where these values are stored.
Hive: | HKEY_CURRENT_USER |
Key: | Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs |
Value Name: | Url(n) where n is a number. Example Url1, Url2 etc. |
Data Type: | REG_SZ |
Value: | any valid internet address. Example http://www. winntmag.com |
You can delete values from this registry key as well as add them. Restart Internet Explorer for any changes to take effect.
III-198 Youve installed MacAfee Netshield 2.5 for Windows NT and your users are having problems logging on. Both Windows 95 and Windows NT users receive the same error message at logon: Not enough server storage is available to process this command. Windows for Workgroup users get a different error message: Path not found. In either case, error #2011 is logged in the event log. This registry value should fix this problem for all these users.
Hive: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Key: | CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer |
Add the value IRPStacksize
Value Name: | IRPStackSize |
DataType: | REG_DWORD |
Value: | 5 |
The value is the amount of memory, in 36-byte segments, set aside for the Input/Output Request Stack. The default value is 4; change it to 5. The range of valid values is 1 to 12.
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