Enabling or Disabling AutoComplete

Sometimes I need to enable or disable AutoComplete (depending on the circumstance) in my Microsoft windows xp operating system, enable or disable Internet Explorer’s capability to save passwords, and clear the AutoComplete history. To do these tasks, follow these steps:

1. Open Internet Explorer, and from the Tools menu, select Internet Options.

2. On the Content tab, and in the Personal Information area, select AutoComplete.

3. To enable or disable AutoComplete, in the AutoComplete Settings dialog box, select or clear the Use AutoComplete for: Web Addresses, Forms, and User Names and Passwords on Forms check boxes.

4. To clear the AutoComplete history for forms, select the Clear Forms button.

5. To clear the AutoComplete history for passwords, select the Clear Passwords button.

6. To remove the capability of Internet Explorer to save any passwords in the future, clear the Prompt Me to Save Passwords check box.

7. Click OK to close the AutoComplete Settings dialog box, and click OK to close the Internet Options dialog box.

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The Privacy tab of the Internet Options dialog box allows you to control how Internet Explorer handles cookies, which are small text files stored on your computer by websites. Websites use cookies to store user preferences for personalized sites, and cookies often contain personal information used to identify the user to the website. Although most cookies are legitimate, some are not. Unsatisfactory cookies are those that are used to provide personally identifiable information for a secondary purpose, such as selling your e-mail address to third-party vendors, or sharing your name and address with other companies. Because there are unsatisfactory cookies, it is important to understand the different types of cookies, how to delete cookies, and how to change privacy settings to prevent different types of cookies from being saved to the computer.

Your company might require that changes be made to the default settings for cookies, too, so you need to know how to make changes if asked. Cookies can be either persistent (they remain after Internet Explorer is closed and can be reused) or temporary (they are deleted when Internet Explorer is closed). Also, there are first-party and third-party cookies. First-party cookies originate from the website that you are currently viewing. Third-party cookies originate from a site different from the one that you are currently viewing but are somehow related to the current website. For example, many sites use advertising from third-party sites, and those sites commonly use cookies to track your website usage for advertising purposes.

■ Block All Cookies Blocks new cookies from being created and prevents access to existing cookies. If per-site privacy settings are configured, they do not override this setting.

■ High Blocks all cookies that use personal information without the user’s explicit consent. If per-site privacy settings are configured, they override this setting in windows xp.

■ Medium High Blocks all third-party cookies that do not have a compact privacy policy or that use personal information without the user’s explicit consent, and all first-party cookies that use personal information without implicit consent. If per-site privacy settings are configured, they override this setting.

■ Medium Blocks all third-party cookies that do not have a compact privacy policy or that use personal information without the user’s explicit consent. First-party cookies that use personal information without implicit consent are allowed, but they are deleted when the browser is closed. Access to first-party cookies is restricted to first-party context if the cookie does not have a compact privacy policy. If per-site privacy settings are configured, they override this setting.

■ Low Permits websites to store all cookies on the computer. When the browser is closed, third-party cookies are deleted. Access to first-party cookies is restricted to first-party context if the cookie does not have a compact privacy policy. If per-site privacy settings are configured, they override this setting.

■ Accept All Cookies Enables all websites to store and access cookies on the computer. If per-site privacy settings are configured, they do not override this setting.

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Internet Explorer automatically stores a list of links to pages that you have recently visited in a folder named History. You can access the recent history by clicking the History button on the Internet Explorer toolbar.

The History section of the General tab of the Internet Options dialog box in windows xp allows you to manage how long Internet Explorer stores recent links. Use the Days To Keep Pages In History option to specify the number of days the history is maintained. The default value is 20 days. Setting this value to 0 disables the History feature. Use the Clear History button to clear the current history list.

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You can also customize the way that Internet Explorer stores and uses temporary Internet files. On the General tab of the Internet Options dialog box, click the Settings button. This action opens the Settings dialog box.

Ways to control when Internet Explorer checks for newer versions of the pages that are stored in its local cache. These four options are as follows:

■ Every Visit to the Page This option causes Internet Explorer to connect to the website and check to see whether the page has been updated each time you access the page in Microsoft windows If a newer page is available than the one stored in the local cache, Internet Explorer downloads the new page from the website and places it in cache. If the page has not been updated, Internet Explorer loads the page from the local cache instead. You may also be interested in learning – How to control the cookies in Internet explorer 6

■ Every Time You Start Internet Explorer This option causes Internet Explorer to connect to the website and check to see whether the page has been updated only the first time you access the page in any given Internet Explorer session. Subsequent accesses to the page in the same session are always loaded from the cache.

■ Automatically This option is similar to the Every Time You Start Internet Explorer option, except that Internet Explorer monitors how often pages change. If Internet Explorer determines that a page does not change very often, it checks for updates less frequently than once per session.

■ Never This option causes Internet Explorer to never check for updated versions of the page unless you manually refresh the page. The Settings dialog box also allows you to control the amount of disk space that temporary Internet files can consume on a hard disk and the folder that Internet Explorer uses to store the files. You should consider moving the temporary Internet files to another location only if the drive on which they are currently stored runs low on disk space. To view the contents of the folder, click View Files; to view downloaded program files, click View Objects in Microsoft windows xp.

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