Internet Tips

Q:Searching Information tips using Search Engine?


A:If you want to get some information about any topic using search engine, the search engine will search the given information and will provide a list of links of websites along brief description about each website. You should use the right search terms for relevant results.

The following points must be noted to search the information on the internet.

• You can type all word in lowercase and also in uppercase, search engine will return the same result. But the best practice is type search keywords always in lowercase.

• Use + sign between words if you want to search the all words. For example, to search history of Football in Europe, type as:

history+Football+Europe

• To search the exact match, write the words in double quotation marks. For example to search the map of Europe, then type as:

"Map of Europe"

• Always avoid to use "and", "or" with search keywords, because these words will affect the search result.

Q:Set Explorer Multiple Homepages?

A:Many web browsers like Mozilla Firefox but now Internet Explorer 7.0 also allow you to set the multiple home pages. You can open all home pages at the same time; this is great option to open your favorite websites with a single click. But you have option to set single home page according to your need.

Follow the given steps to set multiple home pages in Internet Explorer.

• First open the Internet Explorer 7 and go to the option Tools then click on Internet Options.

• Select the General tab, here you will get option "To create home page tabs, type each address on its own line" and type the URL in the Home page section.

• Type one URL in one line then press Enter to type another URL. Press Ok to finish.

Q:Internet Error Codes and Meaning?

A:Sometime you are browsing the internet and trying to open any website, your e-mail and any FTP sites , but you see different error codes there. You should be familiar with these error codes. You can solve these problems if you are well-known with the meaning of error codes.

Error Codes Meaning

400 This is bad request error, First check you may be typing wrong URL name and server could not understand your request.

401 You are trying to open any unauthorized access site or page. Check your username and password if you are trying to open any webpage.

402 Payment Required Error

403 You are trying to open any forbidden page and you are blocked by that domain.

404 Here you are trying to open the webpage that was removed or re-named, also check the URL spelling.

408 This is time out error. you should send the request with in time that the server set for you.

Q:How to enable or disable cookies?

A:When you are browsing your internet, the web server placed some text files on your computer as cookies. The main purpose of cookies to save your preferences that you specify for future reference. You can enable or disable your computer web browser cookies, but it is important for you if you disable your browser cookies, may be some website will not work properly.

If you are using Internet Explorer 6.x and later then follow the given steps to enable or disable cookies.

• Open Internet Explorer, click on the Tools then Internet Options.

• Click on Privacy tab from the left top of dialog box and click on Advanced button.

• To enable the cookies, select the Accept option and for disable check the option Override automatic cookies handling then click on block.

• Now restart the browser to execute changes.

Q:Play With Your Favorites?

A:A cool tip to move your favorites list, because there is no any option to copy it. But using a method you can create a printable HTML document.

To create this HTML list, first open Internet Explorer. Here go to File option then you will find here option Import and Export, to run the Import/Export wizard Click here then Next.

Here you can select what to import and export, Select Export Favorites option then click Next button. Next you will get option which folder you want to export. You can select the top folder Favorites or just a specific folder.

Select "Export to a File or Address" option and give it a name and location. Click Next and Finish it. Now you have one html file and you can move it any where with you.



Q:How to access the restricted or banned websites?

A:You can access the restricted or banned websites with the help of this tip. You may have problems to accessing your favorite's politics, news, and sexy websites in your office and other public places. Some time these websites banned by Government, ISP and may be by your office network administrator. This tip is very useful, if you are using internet particularly in school, college and office.

Follow the given points to access the banned website:

Technique 1: Search the banned website, for example www.computerfreetips.com in Google and yahoo search engine then open the cached copy of that page to access the website. You can get also cache link of that website, if you search in Google with keyword cache:URL name and get cache link to access the website.

Technique 2: Another method to access the banned website using its IP address, because you can open the website with IP address instead of actual URL name. This technique bypasses the URL based restrictions. For example if www.myspace.com is banned in your school, you can open it using IP address 216.178.32.51. You can search online IP conversion tools to get IP address of any website.

Technique 3: There are some mini web browsers can help you to open the banned websites, for example Opera Mini Browser, install it and try to open any banned website. Another Real Player browser can successfully help you to access the banned website. This Real Player browser bypasses the many restrictions of website banned tools.

Technique 4: There any many websites Anonymizer tools are available to fetch the banned website. These anonymous surfing tools that protect your identity on the internet and give the access to banned sites. As far as the service provider is concerned you are viewing a page from Anonymizer and not the blocked site.

These tips are very useful to access the banned websites in your university, cybercaf ,office and other public places.

Q:Indicate Secure Sites for save Transactions?

A:Today there are many application of e-commerce such as home banking, buying stocks, collaboration electronically with business partners around the globe, marketing and advertising products, providing services to the customers using internet. But you should avoid sending your personal information like your bank account numbers, credit card numbers and password using any unknown site. Always use secure websites for this purpose because secure websites safe your private information from others using encryption and some authentication standards. Internet Explorer always display a small lock icon on the task bar when we open any secure site and start domain name with https\\.


 Microsoft Internet Explorer Shortcut Keys

 The followings are short-cuts for Microsoft Internet Explorer. Some keys are version specific

 Use at your own risk.

 Mouse shortcuts   " Shortcut Description "

Double-click (On a word)                                      ' Select the word '

Triple-click                                                            ' Select entire line '

Wheel click                                                   Activate the Smooth scrolling

Hold Ctrl + Scroll Wheel forward                            Increase font size

Hold Ctrl + Scroll Wheel backward                        Decrease font size

Click one point then hold Shift & click another Create a selection from the two points

Keyboard shortcut
F1 Help.

F3 Toggle on/off search panel.

F4 Pull down address bar.

F5 Refresh current page.

F6 Move focus to address bar.

F11 Toggle on/off full-screen mode

Alt + (Left Arrow) Go back on history. Same pas Backspace

Alt + (Right Arrow) Go forward on history.

Ctrl + A Select All.

Ctrl + B Favorites.

Ctrl + C Copy Selected.

Ctrl + E Search panel.

Ctrl + F Find (on page).

Ctrl + H Toggle History panel.

Ctrl + I Toggle Favorites panel.

Ctrl + L Open File. Same as Ctrl + O

Ctrl + N Open New browser window.

Ctrl + P Print current page / frame.

Ctrl + R Refresh. Same as F5

Esc Stop (while page is loading).

Ctrl + Enter Auto complete a url address. For example, type thecomputricks in the address bar and press CTRL + ENTER to get http://www.computertipsrevealed.blogspot.com/.

Ctrl + D Add the current page to favorite.

Internet Connection Sharing on Windows XP


This trick shows you how to share your internet connections on multiple computers within a workgroup with Windows XP. Windows XP has a built-in feature that called "Internet Connection Sharing" (ICS) that allows home users to share their internet connections on multiple computers.

If you are not familiar with the network configurations, the easiest way to share your internet connection is to purchase a router or hub. Use this trick only if you don't have a router, or don't want to use a router, or if you just want to try out the feature.

A simple way to understand this feature is, you are making your host computer (the computer directly connects to the internet) functioning as a router for other computers.

What do you need?

• A "Host" computer that running Windows XP. This computer must have at least TWO (2) network adapters. One adapter - let's call it "Adapter #1" - connects to the internet and another, "Adapter #2", connects to a hub or directly to other computers.

• Client computer(s), which run any version of Windows. A client computer can be connected to the host computer directly by a cross-over cable or indirectly through a hub.

• This trick assumes that the host computer is connected to the internet and you are able to access the internet on this computer.



Configure the Host Computer

1. Logon the host computer as Administrator.

2. Click Start >> Control Panel.

3. Click Network and Internet Connections.

4. Click Network Connections.

5. Right-click the connection that you use to connect to the internet (the connection with Adapter #1). This connection can be either a high-speed internet connection or a dial-up connection.

6. Click Properties.

7. Click Advanced tab.

8. Under Internet Connection Sharing, select the Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection check box.

9. If you are sharing a dial-up Internet connection, select the Establish a dial-up connection whenever a computer on my network attempts to access the Internet check box if you want to permit your computer to automatically connect to the Internet.

10. Click OK. You'll reieve the following message:

When Internet Connection Sharing is enabled, your LAN adapter will be set to use IP address 192.168.0.1. Your computer may lose connectivity with other computers on your network. If these other computers have static IP addresses, it is a good idea to set them to obtain their IP addresses automatically. Are you sure you want to enable Internet Connection Sharing?

11. Click Yes.

Configure the Client Computer(s)

To use the shared connection from the Host computer, a client computer must be configured with "Automatic IP address". The main configurations are:

1. Configure TCP/IP Automatic IP

2. Configure Internet Connection

The steps for the above two configurations are vary on different versions of Windows.

The following procedures are for Windows XP client computers.

1. Log on to the client computer as Administrator or as Owner.

2. Click Start >> Control Panel.

3. Click Network and Internet Connections.

4. Click Network Connections.

5. Right-click Local Area Connection, and then click Properties.

6. Click the General tab, click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in the This connection uses the following items list, and then click Properties.

7. In the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties dialog box, click Obtain an IP address automatically (if it is not already selected), and then click OK.



8. Click Start >> Control Panel

9. Click Network and Internet Connections.

10. Click Internet Options.

11. In the Internet Properties dialog box, click the Connections tab.

12. Click the Setup button. The New Connection Wizard starts.

13. On the Welcome to the New Connection Wizard page, click Next.

14. Click Connect to the Internet, and then click Next.

15. Click Set up my connection manually, and then click Next.

16. Click Connect using a broadband connection that is always on, and then click Next.

17. On the Completing the New Connection Wizard page, click Finish.

18. Exit Control Panel and test the internet. You might need to restart the computer.