Remove the Built-In Search Bar on IE 7

If you use a toolbar such as the Google or Yahoo toolbars, you probably won't want to see the built-in search box in Internet Explorer 7. There's a quick registry fix that you can do to enable / disable this.
This registry fix works by adding in the DWORD value NoSearchBox, with the value set to 1, to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Infodelivery\Restrictions
Hide Search Box
Show Search Box IE
This should work for IE7 on Windows Vista as well as on Windows XP.

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Troubleshooting Internet Explorer on Vista Locking Up or Running Slowly

If you are having issues with Internet Explorer running extremely slow, crashing, locking up, or just generally behaving badly, there are a couple of troubleshooting steps that you can follow to likely fix the problem. And no, I'm not going to just tell you to install Firefox.
Of course I'll suggest it, since Firefox is an excellent browser… But for most people, Internet Explorer works just fine and does everything you need. So let's get that browser working properly again!
Test Using Internet Explorer's "Safe Mode"
The first thing you can do is run Internet Explorer with all the add-ons (or plugins) disabled, which will help us determine if the problem is caused by an add-on or somewhere else in the system.
You can find the "Internet Explorer (No Add-ons)" menu item under Accessories \ System Tools in the start menu, or you can launch IE from the command line with the -extoff switch like this: iexplore.exe -extoff
If the performance / locking up problems are gone, then you know you are dealing with a problem add-on, most likely one of those toolbars that seem to be attached to every shareware application.
Disable Internet Explorer Add-Ons
Close the "safe mode" IE window, and then open Internet Explorer normally. Click on the Tools menu, then Manage Add-ons, and then Enable or Disable Add-ons:
In this screen, you can select Add-ons and then choose to Disable them one by one using the radio button at the bottom.
The default list shows only the add-ons that are currently loaded, so you should also check out the other selections, because the problem add-on might not be set to load on startup.
In order to properly troubleshoot, it would be easiest to disable all of them, and then re-enable one by one until you find the problem add-on (which you should uninstall if possible)
Reset All Internet Explorer Settings to Default
If you are having too many issues, you can always just completely wipe the slate clean and start over with a fresh Internet Explorer configuration, which should fix the vast majority of issues.
Open the Internet Properties dialog by finding the Internet Options section in Control Panel (just type internet into the search box)
You can also right-click on the Internet Explorer icon on the desktop and choose Properties, or just use Tools \ Options if you are able to open Internet Explorer)
Once there, choose the Advanced tab, and then click on that Reset button. Everything will be completely wiped clean, but it's likely you'll have better luck browsing from then on.
Scan Your Computer for Viruses/Spyware

Scan your PC for spyware and viruses, if it is running extremely slow.
Disable Receive Window Auto-Tuning
If none of those fixes the problem, and you are just having a really slow browsing experience only on your Vista computer, the problem could very well be due to the network auto-tuning feature in Windows Vista which is incompatible with some routers.
Open up an administrator mode command prompt (right click on command prompt and choose Run as Administrator), and then type in the following command.
netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
You'll have to reboot the computer after making this change. Reboot Your Router!
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Add Internet Explorer Icon to Windows Vista Desktop

I know what you are thinking. Can't I just make a shortcut? Of course you can. But using this tweak you can recreate the native Internet Explorer icon the way it used to be in prior versions of Windows.
The native icon gives you two benefits: First, you can right-click and get directly to the Internet Options panel, and secondly it doesn't have the shortcut icon arrow.

Manual Registry Tweak
Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then browse down to the following key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]

Find the key named "{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}" on the right-hand side, and then set the value to 0. If the key does not exist, then create a new 32-bit DWORD value with the same name. To remove the icon, you could set the value to 1 instead.
Note that if you are using the classic start menu, you should create this value under the ClassicStartMenu key instead of the NewStartPanel key.
Download Registry Hack
Even easier, you can just use one of the registry files I've prepared. Just unzip and double-click to enter into the registry

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Empty Internet Explorer 7 Cache when Browser is Closed

There's lots of reasons for emptying the browser cache automatically… privacy, security, not wanting milions of tiny files on your hard drive…
To enable this setting in IE7, just go to the Tools \ Internet Options menu, and then click on the Advanced tab.

Make sure you check the checkbox for "Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed".
It's useful to note here that if you have an application open that uses an embedded IE control, the browser cache sometimes won't be emptied until that application is closed as well.

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Registry Hack to Set Internet Explorer Start Page

System administrators will almost always set the default home page for the browser to the corporate website or intranet when building a machine. This is just a small registry hack that will set the home page for IE6 or IE7.
You could probably use this in a logon script to set to home page on all users when they login to the network.
Here's the registry hack. You'll potentially want to change the home page listed.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Start Page"="http://www.google.com/"

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Reopen Closed Tabs in Internet Explorer

If there's one thing that annoys me in Internet Explorer more than anything else, it's that there is no way to re-open a tab once you've closed it. It's especially annoying when you've done a lot of browsing so you have to sift through your history to find the link for the page you closed.
Thankfully there's an add-on for IE7 called "IE7 Open Last Closed Tab" which will remember what tabs you've recently closed so that you can quickly re-open them.
After installation, you'll notice that there's nothing different in the UI whatsoever… but there are two new shortcut keys.

• Alt+X will restore the last closed tab.
• Alt+Q will bring up a screen to let you visually choose from the recently closed tabs:

You'll notice there's an Amazon ad at the bottom… you can turn that off by clicking the "Disable Product Bar" button on the toolbar, and then you'll get this message:

I'm not entirely sure why they chose Amazon ads to integrate… but either way you can get rid of them. If you really like the software you can always donate some money their way.
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Save Internet Explorer Bookmarks

Personally the only time I use Internet Explorer anymore is if I am downloading Windows updates or a certain page doesn't pull up correctly with Firefox. Speaking of that … there is a great Firefox extension for just such a situation IE Tab.
For work though I find myself in situations where I need to set up IE for users. Today I had to pull out an old IE trick for a user who was switching to a different workstation. They wanted to take their bookmarks from IE with them. Here is how.
Open Internet Explorer and click on File \ Import and Export…

This will start up the Import/Export Wizard. Click Next.

Since we are saving the bookmarks from this machine choose Export Favorites. As you can see you can also export cookies and RSS feeds if you want to. Click Next.

Your will see your Favorites folder highlighted. Click Next.

Now we want to choose a location to store the favorites. Here I chose a network drive. You can also save them to a flash drive or a floppy if the file is not too large. After you have selected a location to store the file click Next.

Once the Wizard has finished saving the files click OK. Then click the Finish button.

That's all there is to it! Now when you go to the new machine just run the Import Export Wizard and choose "Import Favorites" then point to the saved location.

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