You can try next steps in order to fix the problem:

1. Close IE and open it again and test it before doing the next one.

2. Install all Windows updates.

3. Scan your computer for malware (worms, viruses and spyware).

4. Verify that IE is working on unsecure web sites. Refresh this page.

5. Open IE and click on Tools icon (or press Alt+X key combination on your keyboard), choose About Internet Explorer

and look at the Cipher Strength.

It should be 128 bit or more. If the Cipher Strength is anything less then 128-bit, download and install the Internet Explorer High Encryption Pack.

6. Open IE, go to Tools menu, choose Internet Options.

Navigate to Advanced tab and scroll to bottom of list. The SSL and TLS options (all versions) should be checked.

7. Check Delete Cookies, Delete Files and Clear History in Tools, Internet Options, General tab and press Delete button.

8. Uncheck the box for Enable Third Party Browser Extensions in the Advanced Section (all other settings in Advanced Section are set to Default).

Click Apply button and restart IE.

9. Configure Security settings for the Trusted sites zone in IE: open IE, Tools menu, choose Internet Options, navigate to Security tab, select Trusted sites, Default Level.

Click Sites button.

Type the address (URL) of the site in the Add this Web site to the zone: box, click Add button, then Close and Apply buttons.

10. Check Firewall/Network Configuration. Make sure that the SSL port (port 443) is open on your network/firewall (if you have any). There are many different Firewall/Network products, so it is impossible to give set-by-step instructions. Check the documentation or help file of the product you use. If you are behind a broadband router, you may not need a firewall on your PC. Check security settings on your router.

11. Clear the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) state and AutoComplete history: open IE, open Tools menu, choose Internet Options, navigate to Content tab. Under Certificates, click Clear SSL State.

Click OK when you receive the message that the SSL cache was successfully cleared. Under Personal information, click AutoComplete. Under Clear AutoComplete history, click Clear Forms. Click OK when you are prompted to confirm the operation.

12. Verify that the Date and Time Settings on your computer are correct: because SSL certificates have an expiry date, if the date on your computer isn't correct, it may prevent you from connecting to secure sites.

Good luck!

Sometimes you may experience with some errors in the Internet Explorer. You can easily clarify if these errors are related to some specific add-ons by running IE8 without add-ons. You can perform this in two ways: from Start menu or using Run command.

From Start menu:

1. Click Start button.
2. Choose All Programs, Accessories, System Tools and click on the Internet Explorer (No Add-ons).

Using Run command:

1. Click Start button.
2. Choose All Programs, Accessories and click Run.

3. In the opened string type

iexplore.exe –extoff

4. Press Ok button.

Now you have IE8 is running without add-ons.

In this mode you can manage add-ons by right-clicking on the warning message at the top of the IE window.

You can disable or enable add-ons one by one until you find add-on that causes the problem or errors in the IE.

Internet Explorer displays the next warning messages when user attempts to open some webpages that use mixed content.

Generally is used to press Yes or Ok button in the warning messages, but in this case No button should be used to see the whole webpage content.

This warning message can be configured by following the instructions:

1. Open Tools menu in IE and choose Internet options.

2. From General tab navigate to Security tab.

3. Select the proper zone under Select a zone to view or change security settings. And press Custom level… button.

4. Under Miscellaneous section

the option Display mixed content can be configured. 

There are three settings: Disable, Enable and Prompt.

This option set to Prompt by default, that’s why you see the security warning message every time when try to display webpage that use mixed content.

You can set it to Enable to permanently allow displaying webpages with mixed content or Disable to permanently prevent IE from displaying such sites.

5. Press Ok twice to confirm the changes and to close Internet Options window.

6. Restart IE to changes take effect.

The Internet Explorer icon does not appear on your desktop. When you try to use the Desktop Items dialog box in Windows XP or the Desktop Icon Settings dialog box in Windows Vista to add the Internet Explorer icon, there is no Internet Explorer check box.

To add an Internet Explorer icon to your desktop, you can use the following method:

For Windows 7 users:

Important Windows 7 no longer supports the ability to modify the registry to get the special Internet Explorer icon to appear on your desktop. This change was made to ensure Internet Explorer could be removed easily for compliance reasons. The only way to add the Internet Explorer icon to the desktop in Windows 7 is to create a shortcut. To create a shortcut to Internet Explorer on your desktop, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, and then locate the Internet Explorer icon on the Start menu. If you do not see the Internet Explorer icon on the Start menu, look in the Programs or the All Programs folders on the Start menu.

2. Right-click and drag the Internet Explorer icon from the Start menu to your desktop, and then click Create Shortcuts Here, or click Copy Here.

A shortcut to Internet Explorer is created on your desktop. You can double-click this icon to open your home page in Internet Explorer.


Note To create a desktop shortcut to Internet Explorer for other users, log on to your computer as another user, and then repeat this method for each user.

Note If you cannot locate the Internet Explorer icon on the Start menu, follow these alternative steps:

1. Carefully select and then copy the following command:

Important Make sure that you select the quotation marks (“) at the beginning and end of this command.

2. Right-click a blank space on your desktop, point to New, and then click Shortcut.

3. In the Create Shortcut Wizard, right-click the Type the location of the item box, and then click Paste to paste the command that you copied in step 1.

4. Click Next.

5. In the Type a name for this shortcut box, type Internet Explorer.

6. Click Finish.

A shortcut to Internet Explorer is created on your desktop. You can double-click this icon to open your home page in Internet Explorer.

For non-Windows 7 users:

Important Windows 7 no longer supports the ability to modify the registry to get the special Internet Explorer icon to appear on your desktop. This change was made to ensure Internet Explorer could be removed easily for compliance reasons. The only way to add the Internet Explorer icon to the desktop in Windows 7 is to create a shortcut as shown in 'For Windows 7 users' section.

To create a shortcut to Internet Explorer on your desktop, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, and then locate the Internet Explorer icon on the Start menu. If you do not see the Internet Explorer icon on the Start menu, look in the Programs or the All Programs folders on the Start menu.

2. Right-click and drag the Internet Explorer icon from the Start menu to your desktop, and then click Create Shortcuts Here, or click Copy Here.

A shortcut to Internet Explorer is created on your desktop. You can double-click this icon to open your home page in Internet Explorer.

Note If you cannot locate the Internet Explorer icon on the Start menu or if you want to add a special Internet explorer icon on your desktop, follow these alternative steps:

1. Click Start, and then click Run. Or, click Start Search if it is available.

2. In the Open box or in the Start Search box, type Notepad, and then press ENTER.

3. Carefully copy and paste the following text into Notepad.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
"{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000
 
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\ClassicStartMenu]
"{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000

4. On the File menu, click Save As.

5. In the File name box, type Ie.reg, and then save the file to your desktop.

6. Exit Notepad.

7. Double-click the Ie.reg file on the desktop.
If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type the password, or click Allow.

8. In the Registry Editor dialog box that appears, click Yes, and then click OK.

The special Internet Explorer icon is added to your desktop. You can double-click this icon to open your home page in Internet Explorer.

To open Internet Options, right-click this icon, and then click Properties. To start Internet Explorer without add-ons, right-click this icon, and then click Start Without Add-ons.

Although web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome are gaining heavy momentum, many people still prefer the default Internet Explorer web browser that comes equipped with Windows 7. With all of the many websites that you visit, chances are good that you may want to block certain sites from time to time. This can be especially useful if you have young children who use Internet Explorer, or even if you want to avoid certain websites.

Blocking specific websites using Internet Explorer is very easy to do. To get started, go ahead and open up IE. From there, click the Tools listing and select Internet Options from the drop down menu. This should open up a separate Internet Options properties window.

Click the tab labeled Privacy.

You can adjust several useful settings from the Internet Options Privacy box, but for this tutorial, we will be focusing on blocking specific sites. Click the Sites button to open up the Per Site Privacy Actions window.

Enter the URL of the website that you would like to block in the Address of website: field. After you have done so, click the Block button. This should add the website to the Managed websites list.

If you have several websites that you would like to block, you can simply repeat the above step. After you are done adding websites, click the OK button to close out of the window.

Now, the above steps simply block certain websites from using cookies through Internet Explorer. However, this does not necessarily block someone on the computer from navigating to the site.

To do that, you will need to use the Windows Content Advisor option. Make sure that you have Internet Options open, and select the Content tab.

Click the Enable button, listed under the Content Advisor sub heading.

From the Content Advisor window, select the Approved Sites tab. Here, you can enter specific website URLs that you would like to block. Enter a URL and click the Never button. This will set permissions to block the site from being viewed in IE and add the site to the blocked list. Click the OK button after you have finished adding websites.

You should be prompted with a password screen. Enter a password to use for Content Advisor. Later on when someone tries to access the website, they will need to know this password to actually navigate to the site.

That’s all there is to it. You should now be able to prevent websites from using cookies and prevent access to certain websites all together. Now when someone navigates to the website, they will need a password to gain access.

Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) freezing often or failing to load could be happening because of several probable causes. For the most part, fixing Internet Explorer 8 is easy to do, but it may require that you check and diagnose several different areas in order to pin point the exact cause of the slow load times or freezing. Learn how to diagnose and repair Internet Explorer 8.

Internet Explorer 8 freezing or failing to load usually has to do with another program or process effecting IE8. Follow these simple troubleshooting steps to get IE8 up and running more smoothly.

1. Disable your antivirus or antispyware.

Chances are good that you have at least some type of antivirus program running on your PC. Because so many viruses and spyware threats come from the internet, sometimes antivirus/antivirus programs can do too much and stop Internet Explorer from working properly.

If your antivirus or antispyware is running, you should see an icon for it located in the Windows 7 taskbar. Simply right-click on the icon and exit out of the program. In certain cases, an antivirus or antispyware program may run silently in the background as well.

If so, you may need to open up the Windows Task Manger and quite all antivirus programs from there. Task manager can be accessed using CTRL-ALT-DELTE.

After your spyware is shut down, try closing out of Internet Explorer, waiting a couple of minutes, and reopening Internet Explorer. Often times, this will fix slow loading times and freezing.

2. Disable Add-ons or Plugins

If you have installed any add-ons or plugins for IE8, they can sometimes be the cause of making Internet Explorer malfunction, freeze, or load slowly.

Shady software will sometimes install add-ons or plugins without your notice, and sometimes browser trick websites will prompt you to install an add-on to run a certain program.

To troubleshoot this, open up Internet Explorer and select Tools > Manage add-ons. From here, click on any add-ons that are not distributed by Microsoft and click the Remove button. After you have finished, try closing out of Internet Explorer and restarting.

3. Troubleshoot Processes

In certain cases, a process or malicious app may be running in the background and preventing IE8 from working properly. To troubleshoot the process, you can try performing a clean startup.

4. Check the Time

Oddly enough, Internet Explorer 8 will run improperly and not display websites correctly if the time on your PC is wrong. Usually, if the time is off by a couple hours or even a week it does not effect IE8. However, if the calendar, time and date is off by several months, IE8 may stop functioning properly.

Click the time in the lower right-hand side of the taskbar to check the date, and select Change time and date settings to change the time.

5. Reinstall Internet Explorer 8

If IE8 is still running poorly, you can also try to remove it and reinstall it. Here are the basic steps for reinstalling Internet Explorer 8:
Navigate the path Start > Control Panel.
Click the Programs and Features icon.
Locate Internet Explorer 8 in the programs window, select it, and click Uninstall/Change. If Internet Explorer 7 is not in the programs Window, select the link Turn Windows features on or off and disable it from there.
After Internet Explorer has been removed, go download the latest version of IE8 from Microsoft and install it on your PC.

If you got C00D11D2 error and "Windows Media Player cannot access the file; you might not have access to the computer where the file is stored, or your proxy settings might not be correct" error, this indicates problems in Windows registry.

This problem can prevent you from viewing stream audio/video or just windows media files.

To solve this problem preform next steps:

1. Go to Control Panel > Sound and Audio Devices > Sound Tab.

2. Save the scheme to your choosing. Then Load this most recently saved scheme.

3. Log Off and then log on again.

Then perform the following steps:

4. Download and install Perfect Optimizer tool. Click on the link PerfectOptimizer.exe (5.63 mb).

5. Click the Repair All button. This will scan the PC for problems.

6. Click Repair All button again and the problem should be fixed now.

P.S. There is another probable solution of the problem: System Restore to the date before the problem appeared.

In Windows OSs you can face with the problem that you do not have sound: no system sounds, no sound when playing audio/video files and no sound watching video on YouTube and similar resources. The first problem is usually fixed by installing correct audio drivers for the audio adapter. If the audio adapter is integrated into Mother Board, just go to the official Mother Board manufacturer' site, choose correct model, OS and download audio drivers.

Sometimes, even after installing the latest drivers and following the recommendations on YouTube how to solve the problem with sound, you may still not have sound on YouTube.

To Fix This Issue, you need to perform next steps:

1. Install latest Adobe Flash Player. Click here to go to download page.

2. Download fix sound.reg. Click on fix sound.reg to download fix sound.reg (1.70 kb) .

3. After the file has been downloaded, run it, when it prompts you whether you want to add this info to the registry, click Yes.

NOTE: This will work in Windows XP, Vista, Se7en.

Cookies are the small pieces of text stored on a computer by a web browser. A cookie consists of information such as user preferences, shopping cart contents, the identifier for a server-based session, or other data used by websites.

As far as cookies contain personal information it is important to protect it from unwanted sharing. All web browsers has cookie management tools. It is usually referred to privacy settings.

This article describes how to Block or Allow Cookies for certain web sites.

In order to Block or Allow cookies for certain site in standard Windows browser Internet Explorer do the following.

1. Go to Start and open Control Panel.

2. Choose Internet Options applet and open it. In Internet Options go to Privacy tab and click on Sites button:

 3. In the opened window you can add or remove sites to the list with Allow or Block setting:

 4. After adding necessary sites click OK twice.

Note: these settings will override all other privacy settings for these sites. Allow Cookies for the sites that is known and trusted.

Initial problem:

Internet Explorer (IE) doesn't start when opening it with the shortcut or launching with the command line. The only thing that is happening is the short blink of Internet Explorer window right after doubleclicking the shortcut.

System specifications:

Operating system: Windows XP Home edition SP3;

IE version: 7.

Customer use AOL browser and never used IE before.

Troubleshooting steps:

1. Performed Selective Startup (without loading startup items);

2. Reset IE to defaults;

3. Deleted temporary Internet files;

4. Scanned system for spyware and malware;

5. Installed latest version of IE with the latest updates.

Solution:

Solution to the problem was installing the latest updates for IE.

Here is the resolution steps:

1. Download latest IE version:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Internet-explorer/default.aspx

2. Run the downloaded file to install IE.

3. Follow the wizard to install IE. Make sure that Install latest updates checkbox is checked.