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IE7 Toolbars not Locked

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

It seems that sometimes you’ll move your toolbars (such as the limited bit you’re allowed to with Internet Explorer 7) and lock them into place only to find them moved around to a new location when you open Internet Explorer again.

Problem:
Internet Explorer 7 doesn’t retain toolbar settings

Potential Cure/Reasons:
Google Toolbar (maybe any of them but Google’s seems to be the one).
Google absolutely insists on its own bar with search being on the far left.

You can just remove the toolbar.
Open IE, click tools, manage add-ons, enable or disable.
Highlight the Google controls and click disable.

You can also try this:

Open IE, unlock your toolbars via right click, force any toolbar to the left - beyond Google’s - then you can move the other toolbars below that line, and you can then lock it. It should stay though the recommended course is to simply remove it until Google gets the chance to update their toolbar.

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Novell fumes at Ballmer

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Techworld.com - OS and Servers News - Novell fumes at Ballmers balls

Novell has clearly not learnt the lesson it has been taught several times in the past, and most of the IT industry keep in the forefront of their minds: never mess with Monkey-boy.

I think I’m just going to let you all read that on your own and reserve comment.

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Hackers Train Sights on Vista, Forefront

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Dark Reading - Desktop Security - Hackers Train Sights on Vista, Forefront - Security News Analysis

From the link:

Got a visual of hackers snickering at Microsoft’s Windows Vista and security tools and effortlessly hacking away at them from their workstations? Or, maybe of exhausted, caffeine-guzzling hackers pounding their fists in frustration at the newly fortressed Vista that has them locked out?

Either way, you’ve got the picture all wrong.

The article seems on target and to hint to the nature of security. No OS, browser, or network is secure. They never will be. Security is a process, not an application. It is an understanding of the risks and then a clear choice to accept those risks in order to accomplish your goals. You can try to minimize the potential risks, you can tweak and protect, you can update and upgrade, you can change software and hardware - and you can do all of those until you’re blue in the face. You’ll still be far from secure.

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FTP Problems with IE7

Friday, November 17th, 2006

Having problems with using FTP in Internet Explorer 7?

Try a few things…

Try it in passive.
Try creating a shortcut to it in your network places.
Try it from Windows Explorer (which seems to work best for me.)

(To use Passive - or PASV - open IE, click on tools, options, advanced tab, scroll down, and find and select the option to use PASV, select it, and click okay).