When Microsoft integrated Windows Explorer with Internet Explorer when IE4 was released, in 1997, they took a lot of flack for it. Versions 5 and 6 continued this trend, with IE also driving Windows Explorer. IE7 broke the trend when it launched last year; it's a standlone application for web browsing whilst IE6 has been retained to drive Windows Explorer (although all normal internet communication attempts simply launches them in IE7 in a new window).
A nice feature of IE4/5/6 was the graphical FTP view; if you opened an FTP site in IE, it was displayed just as any other folder in Windows Explorer would be and could be manipulated in (pretty much) the same way. A key feature of the graphical view is that, because of the integration, you could create a shortcut to an FTP site on your desktop and double clicking on it would see the FTP site open just like a folder.
IE7, being just a web browser, has lost this facility. Instead it opens FTP sites in a nasty text-based display (and also seems to constantly loose logon information whether or not you've elected to save the details). The option to view graphically has been retained though a menu command, which simply re-opens the site in IE6 (with 'Windows Internet Explorer' reverting back to Microsoft Internet Explorer' and all - they've made no attempt to hide it!) but there appears to be no way of making this the default behaviour for FTP sites. Because you've also got to open the FTP site using IE7 first, the problem of forgetting logon information remains.
Does anyone know of a way of making shortcuts once again open as a graphical folder view using IE6 by default? I ask because for work I need to put some sales tickets onto an FTP site and the non IT-savy people on the other end need to just be able to double click on an icon on the desktop and see them appear in a folder. This has stopped me upgrading the work computers to IE7 which based on Microsoft's previous behaviour I'm going to have to do soon because they won't carry on releasing IE6 security patches for much longer.
Browsing FTP sites in IE7
I'd like to know how the hell I can make IE7's start page "aboutblank". I've tried saving it umpteen times, but everytime I open it it takes me to http://global.acer.com.
I've even tried changing the windows registry value for it, but it won't let me save the changes.
I use firefox for 99.9% of web browsing, but MSN/WLM insists that IE is my default browser whenever I want to view anyones MSN profile/space.
I've even tried changing the windows registry value for it, but it won't let me save the changes.
I use firefox for 99.9% of web browsing, but MSN/WLM insists that IE is my default browser whenever I want to view anyones MSN profile/space.
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Surely a more likely site for Acer to lock your homepage down to would be TV Forum...Jamez wrote:I'd like to know how the hell I can make IE7's start page "aboutblank". I've tried saving it umpteen times, but everytime I open it it takes me to http://global.acer.com.
I've even tried changing the windows registry value for it, but it won't let me save the changes.
I use firefox for 99.9% of web browsing, but MSN/WLM insists that IE is my default browser whenever I want to view anyones MSN profile/space.
(I should be shot for making that pun
)Yes, set the shortcut location to be:cwathen wrote:Does anyone know of a way of making shortcuts once again open as a graphical folder view using IE6 by default? I ask because for work I need to put some sales tickets onto an FTP site and the non IT-savy people on the other end need to just be able to double click on an icon on the desktop and see them appear in a folder. This has stopped me upgrading the work computers to IE7 which based on Microsoft's previous behaviour I'm going to have to do soon because they won't carry on releasing IE6 security patches for much longer.
explorer "ftp://username:[email protected]"
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