I found that after upgrading to IE 9 on my Vista Business OS computer, that my Internet Explorer is very slow now compared to my earlier versions of IE. Here’s what I did to fix the problem.
First Save your Favorites just incase this process deletes them.
Go to Tools, Internet Options, Advanced and click on RESET
This RESET fixed my IE 9 Slow performance problems! So if you’re having similar slow performance on your Internet Explorer, you may want to try a RESET also…
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Jared Blake
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These instructions for getting back your missing “Volume Icon” in the system tray worked for me and I hope they work for you too!
Easy Steps to restore your missing volume icon in the system tray:
1. Right mouse click on system tray and select Properties.
2. Click on Notification Area tab.
3. Under System Icons, make sure VOLUME is checked and click OK.
If that isn’t the problem you will need to perform the following more advanced steps. Pleae be careful here as if you screw something up, you can hose your registry and have bigger problems.
Advanced steps (only if necessary) to restore your missing volume icon in the system tray:
4. Click the Start Menu and type in the start search “regedit” (Registry Editor)
5. Place highlight on the computer at the top and then click on Edit, then Find “iconstreams”
6. Delete all registry keys with names “IconStreams” and “PastIconStreams” until “iconstreams” can no longer be found in the registry
7. To find additional occurrences press F3.
8. Restart Windows Vista
9. You may need to do steps 1, 2 and 3 again. :)
Note: When I did this I only found the names located here:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify
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Jared Blake
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Hello reader,
Let’s work together and stop spam email starting right now!
If you can’t unsubscribe from somebody’s emails that keep flooding your inbox, that’s spam! Usually an honest email marketer such as myself will have a place at the bottom of each email to unsubscribe from their email list. If you don’t have the option to unsubscribe (opt out) then this is blatant SPAM!
When you get any unwanted emails that don’t allow you to unsubscribe, use the following link with the FTC to file a complaint.
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/
After you do this a couple times, setup this link to start the process immediately:
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en
Also, you can try forwarding spam emails directly to spam@uce.gov as described on the FTC home page.
Hopefully the FTC can smoke out these criminal spammers and shut them down for life.
Please let me know what success you have with this approach or any other ways you are having success stopping spam email?
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Jared Blake
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XP provides built-in zip support so that you can open compressed files as if they were folders. However, if you use a third-party program, such as WinZip, XP’s built-in zip handling might get in the way. I tried this on my computer and it worked great.
To DISABLE XP’s zip support, perform the following steps:
Select Run from the Start menu.
At the open prompt type:
regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll
Click OK.
Restart the computer.
To ENABLE XP’s zip support, perform the following steps:
Select Run from the Start menu.
At the open prompt type:
Regsvr32 %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll
Click OK.
Restart the computer
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Jared Blake
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