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Bayden IEToys. IE is a powerful web browsing environment, and with a few simple power-ups, it’s even better. You can add functionality to IE5, 6, and 7 with these tiny tools that take up almost no disk space, and won’t slow down IE. Free of charge and free of spyware.
Download: IEToys 1.1.8 Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
IE 7 Tweak Utility allows you change tweak settings within IE 7. Hide/Remove the search bar, command buttons, or the main manue.
Download: IE 7 Tweak Utility 1.0
Feeds Plus is an Internet Explorer 7 add-on that makes your feed reading experience easy and efficient. You can read your feeds in a combined view (aggregate feeds) and get pop-up notifications when there are new items to read.
This add on was developed by members of the IE RSS team at Microsoft. Note that Feeds Plus is not an official product and hence is not supported by Microsoft.
System Requirements: Windows XP/2003/Vista, Internet Explorer 7. Available in English only.
Download: Feeds Plus 1.0
The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides several features for exploring and understanding Web pages. These features enable you to:
– Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page.
– Locate and select specific elements on a Web page through a variety of techniques.
– Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.
– View HTML object class names, ID’s, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys.
– Outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags.
– Validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS Web feed links.
– Display image dimensions, file sizes, path information, and alternate (ALT) text.
– Immediately resize the browser window to a new resolution.
– Selectively clear the browser cache and saved cookies. Choose from all objects or those associated with a given domain.
– Choose direct links to W3C specification references, the Internet Explorer team weblog (blog), and other resources.
– Display a fully featured design ruler to help accurately align and measure objects on your pages.
The Developer Toolbar can be pinned to the Internet Explorer browser window or floated separately.
This Beta 2 version of the toolbar contains functionality and stability enhancements over previous versions and includes the following improvements.
– You can now selectively enable and disable CSS parsing.
– The Misc menu contains a color picker.
– Several link reports are available.
– When you select an element in the DOM element tree list, the selected element scrolls into view if it is not already visible in the browser window.
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar requires Internet Explorer 6.0 or later.
ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries). Even if your web application already includes spell checking functionality, you might still want to install this utility because it is definitely much faster than a server-side solution. Plus you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications, instead of maintaining separate ones on each application.
The program installs as a new button in the IE toolbar (as well as a new menu item under “Tools”) - after filling in a form, just hit the ieSpell button and it pops up a dialog, similar to the MS Word spell check. ieSpell also works (right-click menu only) on other IE based browsers such as SlimBrowser, CrazyBrowser, MSN, MyIE, etc.
ieSpell is not spyware or adware. It’s free for personal use only
Download: ieSpell 2.5.1 Build 106 Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
Internet Explorer 7, provides a flexible and reliable browsing experience with enhanced Web privacy features for Windows users.
Update your web browser to the new Internet Explorer 7 optimized by yahoo!
- Yahoo! Search built into the browser
- Yahoo.com set as the default home page on the primary Tab
- Yahoo! Mail loads in your secondary Tab when you start IE7 Beta 2
- New, sleek design
- Safer web browsing
- View multiple web pages simultaneously
- Reduce clutter with Tabbed browsing
- Collect your favorite content from around the Web with RSS feeds
Download: Internet Explorer optimized by yahoo! 7.0.5730.11 Final Windows XP
Techlogica IE Customizer allows you to enhance and personalize Internet Explorer 6.0 by giving you access to over 75 hidden features in an easy-to-use interface.
Customize Internet Explorer’s appearance
Add a background image, change the animated logo, remove unneeded menus and toolbars, change the window title text, and much more.
Restrict access to Internet Explorer’s settings
Prevent unauthorized changes to virtually all settings in IE, including settings for your Homepage, Toolbars, History, Privacy, and more.
No spyware or information gathering of any kind
With spyware so widespread today, you can rest assured that Techlogica will never include any spyware whatsoever in our products.
Download. Techlogica IE Customizer 1.35
This update addresses the vulnerability discussed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-042.
Security issues have been identified that could allow an attacker to compromise a computer running Microsoft Internet Explorer and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.
System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows XP Service Pack 1
This update applies to Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (SP1) with the following operating systems:
Windows XP SP1
Windows 2000 SP4
Download: Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer 6 SP1 (KB918899)
The Internet Explorer 7 Blocker Toolkit enables IT Administrators to disable automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates and the Windows Update and Microsoft Update sites.
To help our customers become more secure and up-to-date, Microsoft will distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 soon after the final version of the browser is released (planned for fourth quarter 2006). Microsoft is making a non-expiring Blocker Toolkit available for those organizations that would like to block automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 7 to machines in environments where Automatic Updates is enabled.
System Requirements
?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2
Download: Internet Explorer 7 Blocker Toolkit
Each time that you type a URL in the address bar or click on a link in Internet Explorer browser, the URL address is automatically added to the history index file. When you type a sequence of characters in the address bar, Internet Explorer automatically suggests you all URLs that begins with characters sequence that you typed (unless AutoComplete feature for Web addresses is turned off). However, Internet Explorer doesn’t allow you to view and edit the entire URL list that it stores inside the history file.
IEHistoryView reads all information from the history file on your computer, and displays the list of all URLs that you have visited in the last few days. It also allows you to select one or more URL addresses, and then remove them from the history file or save them into text, HTML or XML file. In addition, you are allowed to view the visited URL list of other user profiles on your computer, and even access the visited URL list on a remote computer, as long as you have permission to access the history folder.
This utility is released as freeware.
Download: IEHistoryView 1.33
Internet Explorer, provides a flexible and reliable browsing experience with enhanced Web privacy features for Windows users.
Say goodbye to bulky toolbars. Internet Explorer 7 has a new interface that shows more of each webpage you visit. The streamlined toolbar makes it easier to add websites to your Favorites, search the web, clear your history, and access the other tasks and tools you use most.
The new design, including consolidated menu items, smaller icons, and an overall decrease in toolbar height, optimizes the space on your screen so you see more of the websites you’re visiting.
The new Favorites Center makes it even easier to manage your favorite websites, your browsing history, and your RSS feeds with just a few clicks.
Whether you’re searching the web, comparing prices, or just staying on top of your favorite topic, Internet Explorer 7 lets you view many different websites at one time ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù all within one organized window. The new tabs in Internet Explorer 7 make it easy to browse multiple Web sites.
Internet Explorer 7 brings your favorite web search providers to you. With the built-in search box, you can search the web at any time without having to open a search provider page. You can display search results in a separate tab, and then open the results in other tabs to quickly compare sites and find the information you want. You can even customize your search by setting your favorite search provider as the default.
Internet Explorer 7 helps keep your information safe by alerting you to potential phishing sites ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù sites that look legitimate but actually are designed to capture your personal information. It’s also easier to see which sites provide secure data exchange, so you can shop and bank online with confidence.
Security badges indicate whether the site you are currently visiting is suspicious or a site known for phishing (capturing your personal or financial information).
Download: Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3
This temporary toolkit can help IT professional and developers find security compatibility issues when running their applications and websites in IE7.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2
Download: Temporary Internet Explorer 7 Application Compatibility Toolkit
Browser add-ons can help personalize the way you use the Internet. The add-ons available here have been carefully screened by Microsoft and rated by users to help you select the ones that suit your needs and preferences. Start exploring them today.
This program intended to automatically delete all temporary Internet files, cookies, and history files when it is installed and executed. The program was developed to programmatically clear these files when a corrupt entry caused errors with Internet Explorer.
System Requirements
- Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP Service Pack 1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and later
Internet Explorer 6 SP1, the latest version of Internet Explorer for users not running Windows XP, provides a flexible and reliable browsing experience with enhanced Web privacy features for all Windows users. This version includes a full installation of the Web browser and the most recent version of Outlook Express, the e-mail client that is included with Internet Explorer.
System Requirements
• Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows 98; Windows ME; Windows NT; Windows XP Service Pack 1
• 486/66 MHz processor (Pentium processor recommended)
Download: Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1
IETab is the first software that makes IE a tabbed browser. It is a small IE toolbar plugin and is 100% FREE. NO registration, NO spyware. NO adware. NO malware. NO ghostware. Now you don’t need to download and install another tabbed browser, such as Maxthon browser, Avant browser, Netcaptor, or Firefox just want to use the tabbed browsing feature.
Download: IETab 1.0
The first Microsoft product I ever shipped, Windows 95, launched 10 years ago today. Around the same time we also launched Internet Explorer 1.0 (thought with considerably less fanfare), which quickly gave way to IE 2.0 (which shipped with the Plus! Pack for Windows 95). 6 years later we launched Windows XP, which shipped IE 6.0. That’s more or less 1 new version of IE a year for 6 years. Of course the pace with which we ship versions of IE has dropped off since then with our most notable recent release being Internet Explorer for Windows XP SP2 in 2004, but it’s nice to be back on track with Internet Explorer 7 on the horizon.
Full article: IEBlog
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