IE bug resolved! Or how to fix Internet Explorer operation aborted

You can test if your Internet Explorer has Operation Aborted bug  by clicking on Google mail : htpp://mail.google.com/mail/ - if error message appears – you got it!

I wrote before that the horrible IE bug with message Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site is unbeatable. Even Microsoft don’t give a solution on their page.

I decided to make a last try to beat that error message. Because I like IE and don’t want to change it whatever others people say.

Here are the steps:

There is an option in Internet Explorer which allow us to manage add-ons.

So, follow the pictures:

In Internet Explorer menu, click Tools, then find TAb PROGRAMS, then click on MANAGE ADD-ons.. button

 

Here is the new window opened. There are many addons IE use to open multimedia in webpages: /Skype, Flash,Java…/

 

Select one by one Skype addons and click DISABLE radiobutton.

I had SnagIt addons and decided to disable them too, but almost 99% sure the Skype is the problem here.

Then Click OK, OK again  and restart IE.

Voila !! No more Bad messages when surfing the net!!!

You may use Google mai link above to test the result.

It seems the problem is in Skype not in IE.

I saw many angry people blaming Microsoft and IE and speaking how good is Firefox. But who has no idea of how computer works, how difficult is to make a program to run, he has no right to speak about IT matters.

Please leave your feedback in case this helped to you.

Thank you for reading!

Internet explorer cannot open the internet site. Operation aborted

I receive this error message many times a day as I browse the Internet. I use IE6.

I did not paid attention, just reloaded the page to solve problem.

Please see the next post with solution of the problem /edited./

Yesterday  I decided to search the web for similar problems.

I was surprised to find out that it is a Microsoft IE bug, they recognised this oh their page.

But on MS pagebug  is only description and advices for the  web developers how to avoid this on their pages using CSS and JavaScripts.  No single word about IE users – what causes the problem. 

I found many web pages commenting this problem. But there were same programming solutions for developers.

Even Google mail can cause this error message! You can check this  by visiting htpp://mail.google.com/mail/ . If you have my IE problem, the error message will appear.

The error message makes many people to change their browsers with FF.

This seems to be one of the worst MS bugs ever!

So for my great regret I have to say – NO solution for this problem for now. /edited/

Just wait for Microsoft to release some update for it.

Edit: see the next post with solution!

CD DVD disappear problem resolved

Many people had had this problem with optical devices: when look in MyComputer, the CD and DVD drives missing.

Instead of panic, here are two solutions:

1. Click on Start button  ->Run   and Type Regedit   then press enter.

The Registry editor is opened.

Some words about Windows Registry – this is a place when Windows ‘remembers’ all your settings so when you restart the computer they are exactly as you had set before. This way it remembers your desktop wallpaper, screensaver, screen resolution, taskbar and startmenu settings, mouse speed settings, which programs to run at startup and many many others things you have changed.

But Registry is a place when all the programs and hardware drivers installed write their settings too.

When CD or DVD registry settings are changed or removed by some progtam you have used, Windows cannot guess and do not shows in My Computer.

So if you are in the registry editor, work very carefully and watch not to delete some other program’s registries by mistake.

First, find the following: 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}  and delete it!

Then open Notepad and copy-paste this text:
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}]
“UpperFilters”=-
“LowerFilters”=-

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdr4_2K]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdralw2k]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdudf]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UdfReadr]
Then save as CDrepair.reg  /be sure you choose ‘all files’ from Notepad dropdown when asked for file name and path./

If file is saved as .reg it has a green icon – this way you can tell it from text file if saved by mistake as .txt

Doubleclick on it . A dialog appears – click OK – because you want to import that values in registry.

That’s all. Restart and if you are lucky the, CD drives will be on their place.

 

 

2. If you don’t dare to play with registry, just take this program and run it. It does all that stuff instead you.

 

And one advice: clicking on unknoun or dubious .reg files is sometimes dangerous. So if you receive them by mail or Skype from strangers, better open first with Notepad to see what exactly are they doing. Otherwice you may harm your computer.

 

Start menu quick cleanup

My start menu is full with programs I do not use. It spreads over all the screen and goes out.

It is possible to delete unused programs with right mouse button –> delete but there is a faster way:

Go to C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Start Menu\Programs

Here you can find the programs installed and delete those you don’t want to appear in start menu.

How to Remove Help and Support from Start Menu

I don’t like ‘Help and Support’ option in my Start menu as I often click it by mistake.

It is easy to remove it:

Right mouse button on Start button –> Properties.

The window “Taskbar and Start Menu Properties” appears. Choose “Start Menu” tab.

Click “Customize…” button.

Then “Advanced” tab.

In the list find “Help and Support” checkbox and uncheck it.

Click OK button and Voila! No help anymore!

Users Login

When I run my computer, a user image is displayed, so I need to click on it and login.

As I am the only user of this computer, I decided to remove it and be logged automatically after Windows starts.

Go to  Start –> Run (Win + R)

Then type “control userpasswords2“. Press OK button.

In User Accounts window you have to UnCheck “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer“  box.

Then press Apply button.

In new window, enter account name and password /if any/ then click ОК.

Now you will be logged when Windows starts.

 

Security alerts

Every time I start Windows, a message in baloon pops up in taskbar. This is Microsoft Security Center alert. It reminds me that my computer may be in risk and I need to turn my firewall/antivirus protection on.

How to fire this alert:

Go to Control panel -> Secutity Center -> Change the way security center alerts me -> uncheck the box you want not to disturb you / firewall, automatic updates or virus protection./

 

New Flavor of Google Trends

Google released the new version of  Google trends . It is for determining the popularity of sertain search words for a given period. Google trends information is updated every hour.  

The data from Google Trends is available for geo regions, languages and cities. There is also a nice graph where is shown the keywords value. It is possible also an .csv file output.

The new is websities compare feature. You can write one ore more sities and compare their search activity.

What is my IP

A quick way to check your IP using DOS:

Click on Start button –> Run..

Type cmd and press OK button.

The DOS window opens.

Type the following DOS command: arp -a and press Enter.

Look at the info displayed: it is something like

  Interface: 135.92.229.21 — 0×10003
  Internet Address      Physical Address           Type
  135.92.229.1           00-44-45-1b-d4-ad     dynamic  

Your IP is at the first row after ‘interface:’.

And your MAC /network adapter/ address is on last row: something like this 00-44-45-1b-d4-ad but with other numbers. Every MAC address is unique because it is the way server can tell one computer from another /like peoples ID on their passports/

Webpage view problem resolved

Yesterday I noticed that Yahoo page appeared bigger than usualy and half of the page went out of the screen so I had to scroll right to read.

First I thought it is a virus. Done a full system scan – no viruses or spyware found.

The interesting fact was the others pages looked normal.

I tried opening Yahoo on other computers – it looked absolutely normal.

Then I changed all possible monitor settings – nothing!

Finally, as usual, asked Google and voila – the solution is sooo simple.

I am feeling hitting my head on the wall.

There is a hotkey combination I knew before but have forgotten as I did not used it:

Hold down CTRL key while scrolling mouse wheel – the text size becomes bigger or smaller depending of direction you scrolling!

A simple resolving of that stupid problem!

Search bar repair

I had some spyware and after removing it, the Windows search bar /F3/ become blank. I could not type anything to search.

This was a big trouble for me as I have thousands of files in my computer and search for filename or file content many times a day.

After researching the Microsoft page, I found this program: Tweak UI

It is a wellknown software. I have read many times about it but never used as I didn’t had need to tweak my Windows.

The program is small and easy to use.

Here is a screenshot:

 

Expand ‘Explorer’ then check ‘Use Classic Search in Explorer’ checkbox.

This solved my search problem.

 

oS Commerce logo change

I want to explain my steps after installing my OsCommerce webshop at  craiglist.freehostia.com

Prepare a nice image with your logo and save as logo.gif.

Go to webhost file manager and find folder ‘Templates’ then ‘oScommerce’

Open ‘Images’ folder and upload your logo. It will replace the standard one.

Go to web shop and refresh page.

oS Commerce permissions problem

Today I installed my oS Commerce e-shop on craiglist.freehostia.com .

Freehostia  has many free installers, seven subdomains, I like their hosting service.

When opened the index page, a message in pink appeared reading “Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file:

home/www/craiglist.freehostia.com/admin/includes/configure.php.

This is a potential security risk – please set the right user permissions on this file.”

 

I understud that files  catalog/includes/configure.php and catalog/admin/includes/configure.php, must be set to “read – only” status in order to prevent this warning.

First I tried to change permissions of those two files trough web interface – selected them and click on ‘permissions.’

The pink message stayed on…

Then I deleted them  /first made a copy!/ – a hudge error message came when tried to access index or admin page.

Restored the configure.php files.

After that I decided to change permissions to all the files in Include folders.

They was set to standard chmod 644.

I set them to suisidal 777!

A red warning appeared on webinterface telling me ‘Are you crazy’ /not exactly but with other words

Some words about file/folder permissions a.k.a. CHMOD:

If you Right click on any file and select ‘Properties’  a message box will appear.
You maybe know there are checkboxes ‘Read-only’, ‘Hidden’, ‘Archive’. This is for files on your computer.
When files are to be uploaded and accessed through Internet, the term CHMOD is used.

CHMOD is similar but there are more possibilities to fine adjust access permissions – for example the Owner of the site can write and execute the file and another people – only to read it.

There are some combinations between Owner, visitors and their levels of access. So there is  a  unique three-digit number for each.

Chmod 777 means total freedom – everyone is allowed to read, write and execute the file. This is dangerous because someone visitor may re-write the file with some maliciuos code or just delete it!

Chmod444 and 600 put more restrictions for security reasons and are most often used.

You may ask – why are those numbers needed – just put restriction for everyone and no problems.

But if file is overprotected, it could not be changed/rewrited  by some php scripts and another error messages appear. Your web site /eshop, forum, blog/ could not work normal.

CHMOD is a  Linux – friendly command, so sometimes Windows files refuse to understand it and change as we wish.

In that case a good idea is to change chmod using FTP software. There are a lot of free FTP programs.

I used CuteFTP8.0 to connect via FTP protocol to my webhost /freehostia./

You have to know the ftp address to connect your host or ask your host provider or look in their support forum. Usually there is FTP info on your control panel page. Then run CuteFTP and paste this addres. Press ‘connect’.

When connecter remotely, you will see two windows with folders and files – the left is your computer and the right is your web site /osCommerce in my case./

Find in tree structure catalog/includes/configure.php and catalog/admin/includes/configure.php files /one by one not at once as they are in different folders and subfolders./

Then rightclick on that configure.php  files –> choose ‘ properties’ and select read only – chmod 444.

 This is all.

After refreshing the oSCommerce page, the pink message is disappeared for good!

Task manager view problem

Today my Windows Task manager looked strange. It had no title bar, nor menus. It was so hard to work. I had to close it with ALT+F4.

I asked many people but no one could help me.

At the evening, decided to ask Google.

I love Google!!!

They have answers to every problem!

The Solution is so simple – just doubleclick on the beidje border over the window and voila – it returns its normal view.

Doublecklick again at side border and it goes in that ugly mode.

I will remember this trick forever.

Hope to was usefull.