Saturday Link Roundup–mostly DNS + some Internet Explorer
DaleAllow Google Cast to connect to Cast devices on all IP addresses … or my Microsoft Edge was using SSDP, enable though it was disabled, to connect http://www.dial-multiscreen.org/ DNS TTL…
Saturday Link Roundup
Command Line Safety TricksServerFault: Command line safety tricksMusings of an Anonymous Geek: Safety Precautions When Using the ‘rm’ CommandOtherPrajwal Desai: List of SCCM Build Numbers | SCCM Version NumbersZscaler: Step-by-Step…
Saturday Link Roundup–Bitlocker & Display Driver Crashes
Bitlocker Bitlocker Group Policy Settings How can I prevent users from using USB removable disks (USB flash drives) by using Group Policy (GPO)? Limiting Repetitive GPU Hangs and Recoveries Display…
Internet Explorer Compatibility Mode
“When people inside the building visit our web site, IE Compatibility mode is being forced on. People on the internet don’t get compatibility mode. Please fix.” Internet Compatibility mode was…
What happens when you uninstall Internet Explorer 8?
It makes itself hard to reinstall itself. The install program looks at registry and decides, “heck, I’m already installed.” At least that’s happened when I had to reinstall it via…
The Proxy Server setting used by Internet Explorer and Google Chrome
can be found in the registry, in the ProxyServer entry, under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings key. This is useful, if for example, you need to swap proxy server when you are…
Internet Explorer 8 – users complained it was freezing
They were just upgraded from Internet Explorer 6. I have two guesses why this was happening: IE6 would have been freezing as well, but because website was in it’s own…
The "Always ask before opening this type of address" issue
We're rolling out a new version of Internet Explorer for a customer. They were on IE6... During the pilot, they reported this issue. The error about is actually generated by…
Internet Explorer Security Tab Restrictions
One of our web developers contacted me, and asked how they could look at the settings for the Trusted Zone in Internet Explorer. The Custom Level and Default Level buttons…
“No, you can’t upgrade Internet Explorer 6”
In a week when one of our customer’s senior management team said “No, we’re not upgrading Internet Explorer 6, we’re waiting for Internet Explorer 8 in Windows 7” A user…