How do I uninstall or remove Internet Explorer 8 AND 9

To uninstall Internet Explorer 8 OR 9, follow these steps:

1. Close all programs.
2. Click Start and then click Control Panel.
3. Click Programs and Feature.
4. In the tasks pane, click Turn Windows features on or off.
5. In the list of windows features, clear the check box next to Internet Explorer 8.
6. You receive a warning message in a pop-up window. Click Yes.

Internet Explorer will now be uninstalled. The system will restart after the installation.

Microsoft Fix it Solution Center

Microsoft Fix it Solution Center is a great tool to solve many common issues we face with many Microsoft applications.

Microsoft Fix it Solution Center has automated solutions to fix common windows problems, which can run by novice users . Of course admin rights are required on the system to run the tool.

MS has also launched the online version of Fix it called “Fix it Center Online” , which scans the the system and suggest the solutions automatically if is find any issue in the system. Click here to go to the Fixit online web site:

These files can't be opened. Your Internet security……

Windows 7 Error: “These files can't be opened. Your Internet security settings prevented one or more files from being opened”

Today when I was trying to open a exe file that error came up showing the warning:

Here is the simple solution worked for me:

- Right click on the file for which warning is coming and open properties
- Click on Unblock button and click Apply
- Now open the file, you will not see the warning

In my opinion  this is very feature of Windows 7 which prevent us accidently opening harmful files and programs.

Remove speedbit search from IE and Firefox

I installed DAP on my computer to speed up my downloads and  now whenever I open a new tab in IE or try to search something in search box it was redirecting me to search.speedbit.com web page.

Same thing was happening with Firefox, I type a keyword in the location bar to search it ( default is Google ) but it was redirecting me to speedbit search page.
I removed DAP  and speedbit search from my computer, still the same thing was happening. Here is the solution I found with some google search:

To remove speedbit search from IE:
1.Open registry editor and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft   \Internet Explorer\AboutURLs2. Right click "Tabs" string value and select "Modify"4. Cnange the value to "res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm" which is the default value the Internet explorer.
5. Close Internet Explorer and open again

Remove Speedbit search from firefox:
1. Open firefox browser and type “about:config” in the address bar
2. Look for keyword.URL item in the list and right click on it select reset.

Note: Make sure you have already removed speedbit search from Add/remove programs.

IE8 high CPU usage, IE8 running slow

Slow behavior has something to do with the recovery files that IE8 continually writes at “C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Recovery\Active\”

They have names like:
<GUID>.dat  -- {0E133027-5389-11DF-8A21-001422335927}.dat, etc.

I resolve the issue  by disabling “ Enable  automatic crash recovery” option from:

Tools-->Internet Options--> Advanced (tab)-->Browsing (section) ….

I hope this helps..