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Adult Content Web Site Is Unexpectedly Displayed in Browser Window When You Click Search Have you ever clicked the Search button in the Internet Explorer toolbar and had an adult site pop up instead of the Internet search engine? If so, you've been hacked by an adult site operator. The guys running the site, that someone using your computer visited, actually changed the Registry settings so that their site would show up when you use the Search feature. Adult Content Web Site Is Unexpectedly Displayed in Browser Window When You Click Search The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows NT 4.0, versions SP 1, SP 2 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 for Windows NT 4.0, versions SP 1, SP 2 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 for Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows Millennium Edition, versions SP 1, SP 2 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows 98 Second Edition, versions SP 1, SP 2 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 for Windows 98 Second Edition, versions SP 1, SP 2 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 for Windows 98 Second Edition Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows 98, versions SP 1, SP 2 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 for Windows 98, versions SP 1, SP 2 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 for Windows 98 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows 95, versions SP 1, SP 2 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 for Windows 95, versions SP 1, SP 2 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 for Windows 95 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows 2000, versions SP 1, SP 2 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 for Windows 2000, versions SP 1, SP 2 Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows XP Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows 2000 Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows Millennium Edition Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows 98 Second Edition Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows 98 Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows XP 64-Bit Edition IMPORTANT: This article contains information about modifying the registry. Before you modify the registry, make sure to back it up and make sure that you understand how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For information about how to back up, restore, and edit the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q256986 Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry SYMPTOMS When you click Search in Internet Explorer, an adult-content Web site may be displayed in the browser window instead of the expected Internet Explorer Search page. CAUSE This behavior may occur if the registry entries for the Search page in Internet Explorer have been modified to reference the adult-content Web site. RESOLUTION Method 1 To resolve this issue, remove the entries that reference the adult-content Web site from the registry. To do this, follow these steps. NOTE: Because there are several versions of Microsoft Windows, the following steps may be different on your computer. If they are, see your product documentation to complete these steps. Click Start, and then click Run.WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK. Locate the following registry entries (if they exist): HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Search Bar HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Search Page HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page Right-click each entry that you have located in step 3, and then click Delete. Click Yes to confirm the deletion. This action resets the Internet Explorer home page and Search page in Internet Explorer. On the File menu or the Registry menu, click Exit to quit Registry Editor. Configure Internet Explorer to use the home page that you want. To do this, follow these steps: Start Internet Explorer, and then connect to the Web site that you want to use as your home page. On the Tools menu, click Internet Options. Click the General tab, and then click Use Current. Empty the contents of the Temporary Internet Files folder. To do this, click Delete Files under Temporary Internet files, and then click OK. Method 2 NOTE: Because there are several versions of Microsoft Windows, the following steps may be different on your computer. If they are, see your product documentation to complete these steps. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click Internet Options, click the Programs tab, and then click Reset Web Settings. NOTE: Make sure the Also reset my home page check box is selected, and then click YES. Empty the contents of the Temporary Internet Files folder (see step 7 in the "Method 1" section of this article), and then click OK. Start Internet Explorer. Single Click Icons on Your Desktop Most of us are used to single clicking links and icons on Web pages. Why should we have to double click on icons on the Desktop? We don't! If you like single clicking and want to take advantage of single click functionality on the desktop, then check this out: Open the Windows Explorer. There are many ways to do this. My favorite way is to right click on the Start button and then click on the Explore command. In the Windows Explorer, click on the Tools menu and then click on the Folder Options command. On the General tab, select the Single-click to open an item (point to select) option. There are two suboptions. I like the Underline icon titles only when I point at them option better, as it gives a little cleaner desktop appearance. Click OK. Minimize any open windows. Now point to one of the icons on the desktop and it will "highlight" and the icon text will be underlined. Now click the icon once. The program opens!
	Speed Up Hard Disk Searches with the Indexing Service Do you have to use the Search feature often? Maybe you have thousands of Word documents or Excel spreadsheets on your hard disk and you have to find documentation that contains a specific customer or product name? Maybe you can sort of remember the file name, but you remember that you used a particular word in a text file or Wordpad document? If you need to do these kind of searches a lot, then you should turn on the Indexing Service. The Indexing service will keep an index of file names and even words inside the files. This can really speed up your searches! Click Start and then click Search. In the Search Companion page on the left side of the window, click on the Change preferences link. In the How do you want to use Search Companion balloon, select the With Indexing Service (for faster local searches) In the Indexing Service balloon, select the Yes, enable Indexing Service option and click OK. You'll notice the hard disk light on your computer starts to blink because the Indexing Service starts working on creating the index. If you find overall performance is reduced by all the indexing, you can repeat the procedure and disable the Indexing Service.
Windows XP SP1 Allows You to Whack Windows Messenger (and Windows Media Player) for Good! We spent a lot of effort figuring out ways to whack the Windows Messenger from your computer. If you install Windows XP SP1 you'll be able to remove the Windows Messenger easily! Check it out: Click Start and then click Control Panel. If you're in Category View, click the Switch to Classic View link on the left side of the Control Panel window. Open the Add/Remove Programs applet. Click on the Add/Remove Windows Components button on the left side of the Add or Remove Programs window. Scroll down to the bottom of the list. You'll see the deadly duo right next to each other! Remove the checkmarks from the Windows Media Player (WMP) and Windows Messenger. The Messenger is merely irritating, but the future of the Media Player is to bring "big brother" in to your computer. I don't want that and you don't either. Remove the Media Player and use WinAmp () or some other media player instead. Click Next on the Windows Components page. You'll see the Configuring Components page and a "gas gauge" shows the progress of the uninstall. When the uninstall is done, click Finish on the Completing the Windows Components Wizard page. Now sit back and breathe a sigh of relief. You've removed the dreaded WMP and its spyware from your computer. Note that while you can also remove Internet Explorer, you don't want to do that! IE is the best browser you can get. You want to whack slimeware and scumware, you don't want to get rid of the good stuff.
	Windows XP On Screen Keyboard Saves the Day What do you do if your keyboard goes wonky? How do you type an email message or even type a command string in the Run command? No problem! Just use the Windows XP On Screen keyboard. This little utility is handy not only if your keyboard stops working, but also if you're using a handheld or tablet PC. You need to be prepared, though. Try this out: Right click on an empty area of the desktop, point to New and click Shortcut. On the first page of the shortcut wizard, type in osk in the text box and click Next. On the Select a Title for the Program page, type in Online Keyboard. Click Finish. Now that the online keyboard icon is sitting there on your desktop, ready for when your keyboard goes whack. Just click the icon, then open the program you want to type into, and have at it. Is that cool or what?
Quick Reminder: Be Sure to Disable Automatic Updates If you install Windows XP SP1, you've given Microsoft permission to do whatever they want to your computer. Hey, they have the right, since you just have a license to use the program, you didn't buy it! However, you should be able to slow them down by disabling automatic updates. We've gone through the procedure before, but it's more important now than ever before that you prevent them from doing stuff behind your back, you need to whack the auto-update feature: Click Start and then click Control Panel. If you're in Category View click the Switch to Classic View link on the left side of the Control Panel window. Open the System applet. Click on the Automatic Updates tab. Remove the checkmark from the Keep my computer up to date checkbox. Click Apply and then click OK. Restart your computer just to make sure the change "takes".
	Get Organized with Windows Explorer "View in Groups" Command This is one cool tip for you file management fiends. If you're like a lot of people I know, you stick all your files and folders in the My Documents folder. Hey, why not, isn't that what they want you to do? The problem is when you get a few thousand files and folders in there, it gets sort of hard to tell the forest from the trees. Try this tip and let me know what you think: Right click on the Start menu and click Explore. Click on the My Documents folder. Click the View menu and then click the Details command. Now you see many details on the files and folders located in My Documents. Click the View menu, point to Arrange icons by and click on Show in groups. Bingo! The entries in the right pane of the Windows Explorer is now very organized. Click on the Name header at the top of the right pane of the Windows Explorer. All the files will be organized by name! Now click the Date Modified header. The files will be grouped by the last time the files changed (today, yesterday, last week, last month, two months ago, earlier this year, last year, two years ago, and 'a long time ago'). Click on the Size column header. The Explorer will categorize the files by size (zero, tiny, small, medium, large, huge, gigantic and 'folders'). Of course, you can have even more fun by adding more column headers. Just right click on any of the current column headers and click on one that you want to add. Have fun!!
How to Use Multiple Monitors on One Windows XP Computer A feature I used with Windows 2000 and now use with Windows XP is the multiple monitor support feature. That's right! If you run out of desktop space on a regular basis or if you always wished you had more room to open browser windows, email windows, or anything else you might want open at the same time, multiple monitors is what you need. In fact, you can run up to 10 monitors on a single Windows XP computer. While I can't see using 10 monitors at the same time, I run two monitors on my full-time workstation and I'll tell you that it makes getting work and fun done a lot easier and faster! If you think this is for you check this out: Install the number of video cards you need for the number of monitors you want to run. Most computers come with a built-in monitor port, so you only need to add video cards for the extra monitors you want to add. Turn on the computer. The monitor that is set as the primary VGA adapter will show the startup screen. During startup, Windows XP will detect the new video card and monitor. Right click anywhere on the desktop and click Properties. Click on the Settings tab. You'll see squares that have the numbers "1" and "2" (and more if you have more than two video cards plugged into the computer). Click on the Identify button to tell which monitor Windows XP is calling which. The number will appear on screen. Click on the box that represents the monitor you want to be your main monitor and then put a checkmark in the Use this device as the primary monitor. Next, click on the box for the other monitor. Put a checkmark in the checkbox for Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor. Click Apply and then OK.