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How do I tell Internet Explorer to trust a security certificate?

Here's an interesting mystery for you: I wrote an article with this title back in 2005, with the original question thusly:

"Dave, I was hoping you could help on this really security alert that keeps on coming up every time I go on the Internet. The alert states the following:

Information you exchange with this site cannot be viewed or changed by others. However, there is a problem with the site's security certificate. The security certificate was issued by a company you have chosen not to trust. View the certificate to determine whether you want to trust the certifying authority. The certificate is valid and the security certificate has a valid name matching the name of the page you are trying to view.

I would be very grateful if you could help stop this security alert from appearing in future."

Question answered on December 7, 2010 at 08:02 AM :: Comments to date: 3

How do I change the default search engine in Internet Explorer IE8?

On two separate computers, I have tried to change my Search Provider on Internet Explorer 7 by (1) chosing the option on required settings page, (2) right clicking on the search icon to change/add defalt search provider, and (3) using the TEST option. Each time, I get a message at the bottom of the page that says "(!) Error on Page". Please help. I HATE Bing!

Question answered on August 27, 2010 at 08:56 AM :: Comments to date: 0

How can I delete my browsing history in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8?

My mom keeps checking out what sites I visit and I want to clean up my tracks. It's not that I'm going anywhere I shouldn't - of course - but I just really want some privacy and just want to be able to wipe my MSIE8 (Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0) browsing history. How do I do that?
Question answered on January 22, 2010 at 08:24 AM :: Comments to date: 2

How do I change my home page in Internet Explorer?

Category: Windows PC Help

I want to set Internet Explorer so that when I start it up, it always goes to a webpage other than the default startup page. How can I change the "startup page" or "home page" in Internet Explorer?

Question answered on November 27, 2009 at 08:02 AM :: Comments to date: 4

How do I restore the main menu bar in MS Internet Explorer?

Category: Windows PC Help

How do I get back the menus across the top of the screen ("File", "Edit", "View", "Favorites", etc.) that used to be displayed in Microsoft Internet Explorer?

Question answered on November 25, 2009 at 08:19 AM :: Comments to date: 2

CrossOver: A Must-Try Windows Tool for Mac Users

This is a guest article, written by Tim Beyers.

Rarely do I need access to Windows programs. For the times when I do, I've switched from a Parallels virtual machine running XP to CodeWeavers' CrossOver for Mac, a virtual environment that simulates the Win32 API, one program at a time.

What CrossOver for Mac is

CrossOver is built on the open source Wine project, which proposes to re-implement the Windows architecture for Unix. Thus, systems that draw from a Unix kernel -- Mac OS X and Linux, notably -- can use Wine to run Windows programs as if they were native to the underlying architecture.

Question answered on June 5, 2009 at 08:39 AM :: Comments to date: 1

How do I update Firefox on my Windows XP system?

Category: Windows PC Help

I used to use Internet Explorer and while I had Firefox too, MSIE was my favorite. Now that Google Chrome is out, however, I've switched. My question, though, is since I don't run Firefox on my WinXP computer too often how can I nonetheless ensure that it's always the very latest version?

Question answered on September 8, 2008 at 08:07 AM :: Comments to date: 7

How do I make MS Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) my default browser?

Category: Windows PC Help

I tried to get IE to ask me if it wanted to be the default browser, but it will not. I keep checking the box and shutting the computer down. I am an unfortunate who had mozilla firefox foisted upon them, please help me restore IE as my default browser.

Question answered on March 13, 2007 at 08:09 AM :: Comments to date: 14

How do I sort my Favorites in MS Internet Explorer?

Category: Windows PC Help

I have about 4,000 sites bookmarked and arranged into folders etc. The problem is that I want them arranged alphabetically.

I can arrange them any way I like in Windows Explorer, but that arrangement does not affect them when I click on the "Favourites" in IE. I think they did it automatically in 5.5, but it is really cheesing me off having to keep dragging them manually into alphabetic order.

Question answered on March 2, 2006 at 11:03 AM :: Comments to date: 81




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