Internet Explorer: Some Useful Computing Tips
Keeping this fact in mind, I have come up with this article which will give you some tips on keeping your IE safe, healthy and interesting. Here in this article I will discuss some regions of IE like dealing with the cookies, cache history, keyboard shortcuts and many more.
COOKIES
Starting with how to deal with cookies? Well, cookies are text stored by your web browser to remember some important data about a certain webpage. It vary with different WebPages, some use it to authenticate you, storing site preferences, identifying server based sessions, and many other information. Malicious attack on your browser may take away all important information stored previously in your cookies. So it is usually recommended to clear your cookies after you have finished your browsing sessions or completely disable cookie.
How to clear cookie?
Steps for clearing cookies from your browser
Goto Tools.
Then click on "Internet Options".
Then in the opened dialogue box, under the general tab, you will see an option as "Delete Cookies". Click on it.
This will pop you up a warning to delete cookies or not. Select "Yes" and you are done.
Some services of many major websites use cookies' functionality. Services of Google, yahoo, and many others use cookies a lot and do not operate well in your browser if the cookies are turned off or disabled. But still IE browser provides you an option to turn off your cookies. Below are the steps to follow.
Disabling Cookies
Steps to disable cookies in IE.
Goto Tools.
Then click on "Internet Options".
Then in the opened dialogue box, click on "Privacy" tab.
Now click on "Advanced" Button.
This will open up a dialogue box, select "Override automatic cookie handling".
Now you will have three options namely,
Accept- this will accept any cookies whether it is first party or third party cookie.
Block- Blocks all cookie irrespective of its nature.
Prompt- gives you freedom of allowing or rejecting whenever any cookie is accessed.
After you have made choice click on the "OK" button.
First party cookie are the cookies being set by the website you are visiting while third party cookie are those being set by some other website for the site you are visiting. It is often preferred to be aware of the third party cookies. They may be harmful as well as interfering in nature.
CACHED HISTORY
When you are browsing some website through IE, the browser automatically stores some part of the visited website in the hard disk temporarily. This enables your browser to load the same webpage faster and easily next time you visit. This is known as cached history.
It is usually recommended to clear your cached history for good maintenance of your computer. This will also free up the space used in the memory. Below are the steps to clear your cached history of IE.
Steps to clear cached history:
Goto Tools.
Then click on "Internet Options".
Then in the opened dialogue box, under the general tab, you will see an option as "Delete Files". Click on it will delete all the cached elements stored by the browser. This will prompt a warning, select "Yes" to proceed.
There is another option "Clear History". Click on it to clear all your browsing history.
When you are done. Click on "OK" to continue with your work.
SHORTCUTS For IE
Well, I have discussed many things regarding the maintenance of your IE browser. Now coming to the next part of the article, i.e. the interesting part. This includes the shortcuts used widely to make IE experiences more exciting and helpful.
Shortcuts:
Add the current page in the favorite: Use Ctrl + D
Bring the IE search box into focus: Use Ctrl + E
Enable the find box in the browser: Use Ctrl + F
Open the browsed History: Use Ctrl + H
Open saved favorite sites list: Use Ctrl + I
Open new location or saved pages : Use Ctrl + L or Ctrl + O
Open new window: Use Ctrl + N
Print the current page: Use Ctrl + P
Reload the current page: Use Ctrl + R or F5
Save the current page: Use Ctrl + S
Close the browser: Use Ctrl + W
Open the default homepage: Use Alt + HOME
Goto one page forward: Use Alt + RIGHT ARROW
Goto one page backward: Use Alt + LEFT ARROW or BACKWARD KEY
Focus on the address bar: Use Alt + D
View webpage in full screen mode: Use F11
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