In early versions of Windows, Internet Explorer had a special icon right on the Desktop. It was not just a shortcut, but an ActiveX object which provided access to various IE settings and features by right clicking it. However, in Windows XP SP3, Microsoft decided to remove the icon completely from the Desktop. You were still able to create a regular shortcut to IE, but the ActiveX icon wasn't accessible any more. Let's see how to restore that useful icon on your Desktop. Just follow this simple tutorial.
Author: Sergey Tkachenko
Download Full featured IE icon for your Desktop
Full featured IE icon for your Desktop.
Download IE Search Customizer
IE Search Customizer.
IE Search Customizer is a simple freeware which allows you to define custom searches in the Internet Explorer browser.
For example, suppose you want to use the g alias for Google in IE's address bar, so you can type
g something
to begin search directly.
With IE Search Customizer you can create such an alias with just a few clicks.
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IE Search Customizer
IE Search Customizer is a simple freeware which allows you to define custom searches in the Internet Explorer browser. With the help of this little app you will be able to create short and extremely useful aliases for the address bar of IE.
The application works as described in our "Add custom searches to Internet Explorer's address bar to save your time" article.
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Add custom searches to Internet Explorer’s address bar to save your time
Recently we posted a detailed tutorial on how you can add custom keywords in Google Chrome to perform searches from its address bar faster. Today, we should like to show you how to do the same for Internet Explorer. IE does not come with any options in its UI to configure these searches, but we will try to make it simple. Using the custom searches feature, you can save a lot of time and speed up your daily search-related tasks for Internet Explorer.
Download A set of custom searches for Internet Explorer
A set of custom searches for Internet Explorer.
A set of custom searches we created for Internet Explorer. See more info here:
Add custom searches to Internet Explorer’s address bar to save your time
