Category: Internet

When you download a file from the internet in Windows XP, Vista or 7 (only on NTFS file system), Windows attaches an alternate data stream (ADS) to this file to mark the file as coming from internet. When you try to run them or open them, Windows warns you that they may be unsafe as shown.

When you browse the internet using Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer, it collects the history of your browsing like visited sites, temporary internet files, cookies etc. You can clean it from time to time, or you can clear the browsing history at every time you close Windows Internet Explorer.

When you type something in a form (text box) on a web site, Firefox automatically performs the spell check using an in built dictionary. When you type a wrong word, it underlines the mis-spelled word with a wavy red underline. You can right-click on such a word and use one of the suggestions as shown…

If you visit some web sites regularly, hoping to find the newly added content and searching through different sections of the sites, then Google Reader is for you. You can subscribe to your favorite sites RSS (really simple syndication) feed in the Google Reader and Google Reader will show you all the latest content inside it.

Sometimes, a friend gives you an email address but when you send the email to this email address, it fails. You get confused if the email address is valid or the mail server is working or not ? Now you can verify if an email address is valid or not.

When you start Internet Explorer, it can take few seconds to start up. This is mainly due to the resource hungry add-ons which take some time to load before the Internet Explorer can load. You can identify these resource hungry add-ons easily in Internet Explorer.

Few people know that when you visit a web site, your IP address is revealed to the web server. Your IP server is your internet identity over the internet. Also some ISP log the web sites you visit. You can hide your IP address from web servers and sites you visit from your ISP, using a web proxy.

In Internet Explorer, you can subscribe to the RSS feed of a web page. After that, Internet Explorer keeps checking for updates on that page. By default it checks for updates on a RSS feed once everyday. But you can change the schedule of how often internet Explorer is going to check for updates of the subscribed RSS feeds.

If you Internet Explorer in Windows XP and later versions, you would see that the visual styles are applied to the buttons and other controls like text box, checkbox etc. If you want to make these controls appear in the classic Windows style, then you can do so by making some setting changes.