Internet Explorer Tips

Change popup blocker sound in Internet Explorer for Windows 7

When your popup blocker is enabled in Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8 (it is by default), you will get several signals to inform you that your web browser successfully blocked a popup window from opening: a yellow information bar, a "blocked popup" icon displayed in the status bar, and a sound you've probably become all too familiar with. But since Internet Explorer is made by Microsoft, which makes Windows, its settings are tightly integrated with the rest of the operating system, and that includes the sound that plays for popups. In this tutorial, we will show you how to change the blocked popup sound for Internet Explorer in Windows 7.

Internet Explorer Tips

Mute and turn off the popup blocker sound in Internet Explorer

In its default settings, Internet Explorer will perform three other actions when it blocks an unwanted popup: it will display a yellow information bar at the top of the screen show a "blocked popup" icon in the status bar, as shown on the screenshot below, and play a sound in the background. Since you get a couple of visual notifications already that Internet Explorer successfully blocked a popup, the sound may not be needed. In this tutorial, we will show you how to keep the popup blocker enabled, but mute and turn of the popup blocked sound.

Internet Explorer Tips

Find text on a web page in Internet Explorer

Nearly all the content on web page is pure text - it may be formatted in different ways, but the web is mostly text; like most people, you have often tried to search for a specific piece of information from webpage, namely some keywords you typed into a search engine that led you to that particular web page. Depending on the length of that page, the easiest way to find directly the information you came for in the first place would be to search the web page for a particular piece of text to find.

CityVille Beginner’s Guide

CityVille is comparatively newest game from Zynga, the makers of the very popular FarmVilleand FrontierVille games on Facebook. In CityVille, you move out of the quiet countryside settings of those two games to construct your own successful city from its simple beginnings into a metro city. The game features a lot of challenging dynamics which is fun, but can also be confusing. So here’s a CityVille Beginner’s Guide, featuring CityVille cheats, strategies, tips and tricks to get up and running quickly.

CityVille Beginner's Guide

Your tiny little habitat will become a booming metropolis quickly in CityVille.

CityVille Basics

If you’ve played any games recently on Facebook, especially any of the city building themed games, then the basics of CityVille will already be familiar. You’ll try to level up by accumulating XP, earn coins, utilize cash and manage your energy.

How to Update Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer is constantly changing. It is a dynamic program and its creators are always developing and adding exciting and useful new features to it. The frequency with which Internet Explorer is updated varies, but you will definitely want to make sure you keep up with new versions. Fortunately, it is a simple matter to check to see if a new version is out and to update your own version to the new one.

How to Make the Toolbar Smaller

Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 both come with the option to change the size of the icons in the toolbars. For Windows 7, you can change the size of the icons in the taskbar at the bottom of the page, which in turn will change the overall size of the taskbar. For Internet Explorer 8, you can change the size of the icons in the toolbar at the top of the browser, which also changes the size of the toolbar.

Steps to Follow

• Right-click on an empty area in the taskbar and choose "Properties." If you are trying to make an Internet Explorer toolbar smaller, right-click on an empty area of the tool bar and highlight "Customize."
• Check the box next to "Use Small Icons" if you are trying to make the taskbar smaller. If you are trying to make an Explorer toolbar smaller, highlight and click on "Use Large Icons."
• Click "OK" and the icons on the taskbar turn smaller. If you are trying to make an Explorer toolbar smaller, a third step is not needed.

Energy Resources in Cityville

City ville Beginners Guide

As we promised we have put together the guide of  Energy for Cityville .Energy is the most essential and indispensable part of the game to build houses, to collect rent or to harvest crops. Without energy points, the player will be able only to seed plots or to dispatch goods to the business buildings.

Internet Explorer Tweaks

Change the navigation sound in Internet Explorer.

This setting lets you change or remove Internet Explorer navigation sound.When you start navigating a web site with internet explorer it plays a wav file. Default sound is a click sound. This setting lets you to change or remove that sound. For this, go to start > run menu, enter "regedit" and navigate to the registry path listed below. Now, right-click and modify the string value "default" with the complete path and name of the sound file that should be played every time on click. However, if you want to disable sound then leave data value empty. Restart internet explorer for the change to take effect. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.

Delete Temporary Offline Files

When users access their files sitting on servers on the network, these files are cached on the local disk (if the Offline Files Feature is active). They remain available when the portable computer is disconnected from the network. Upon reconnection on the network, the modified files will be resynchronized with their copy on the servers .(According to the Offline  files settings available thru Tools->Synchronize->Setup in any Windows explorer window). These kind of files are called temporary offline files. They are temporary in the sense that the cached copy might be erased locally after use. Usually files that have not been accessed recently will NOT be available while offline. The “Amount of disk space to use for temporary offline files” slider (seen below), applies only to these temporary offline files, NOT to the ones you manually specify.

Internet Explorer Tweaks

Set default download path of Internet Explorer.


When the files are downloaded, you are asked whether the file is to be opened or saved on to the disk. The path taken in saving to disk takes the default path. This setting enables you to specify this path. For this, go to "start->run" and enter "regedit" and search the keys listed below. Now, right-click and modify the string value download directory, to set the default download path of internet explorer. After a restart or logoff the changes take effect. This is a tutorial to Set default download path of Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer Tweaks

Disable playing videos online on Web pages.

Surfing a page takes time if it has videos. If your internet connection is slow then you may want to disable playing videos on web pages when online. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. Now, right-click and modify the string value display inline videos, in the right panel, to no which can disable playing videos. However, if you want to revert to the original state, change the value data to 0. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.