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The Internet Explorer Compatibility List

Posted by  on 26 December 2011, 11:47 pm

In today’s blog post I’d like to share some basic information I gathered today about the Internet Explorer Compatibility list option that is available within the Compatibility View Settings in Internet Explorer 8 and 9. By default this setting is enabled and causes websites that are listed within the Compatibility list to render properly in [...]

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A Security Baseline Resource for Windows 7–Internet Explorer and Windows 7 Firewall

Posted by  on 31 January 2011, 9:51 pm

If you are looking for some ideas how to secure your Windows 7 clients, have a look at the USGCB (The United States Government Configuration Baseline). The USGCB has been developed by the Department of Defense (DoD) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The documentation looks impressive and even if you aren’t going [...]

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Migrating to Internet Explorer 8

Posted by  on 29 April 2010, 11:12 pm

Companies that are in the process of planning a Windows 7 migration, will be required to pay some attention to Internet Explorer 8 and web site compatibility. Chris Johnson aka “The App Compat Guy” put together two video’s about how to migrate from Internet Explorer 6 to 8. The videos talk about the potential challenges [...]

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Tip: Download more than 2 files at once (Internet Explorer)

Posted by  on 26 February 2010, 5:19 pm

I had thought that by now this is something everybody knows, but unfortunately that is not the case, so that is why I post this one today. By default, Windows Internet Explorer 7 and earlier versions limit the number of files that you can download at one time to two. Windows Internet Explorer 8 limits [...]

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IE8 Group Policy Settings and more

Posted by  on 27 January 2009, 11:29 pm

Yesterday Microsoft released the Release Candidate for Internet Explorer 8 that of course contains a lot of new features that I am not going to rewrite here again, as others did so already. Reading the IE8 product group blog 100 additional group policy settings are being introduced to extend manageability of IE8 through Group Policy [...]

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Slipstreaming IE8

Posted by  on 15 September 2008, 8:44 pm

The “New Zealand IE8 Taskforce” posted a nice article on how to slipstream IE8 into Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 images.

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