Windows Vista. It’s big, bad and insists its new technologies upon unsuspecting users while not actually working quite right.
The Vista Sidebar is one such culprint. Ever since the early previews of Vista (aka Longhorn), there was a giant box hanging around the desktop on the right side that had a giant clock in it.
Of course, [...]

Microsoft have posted a KB article to manually create ADM and ADMX files which will allow you to manage the search providers in Internet Explorer 7’s Search Box.
This can be very useful for admins who only want certain sites to be searchable across their domain (such as an intranet!)

After when deploying Internet Explorer 7 around your site through a service such as WSUS, there are immediate considertaions that have to be dealt with. The main one being configuring settings for IE7.
It is possible to download the Internet Explorer Administration Toolkit (IEAK), but when dealing with IE7 that has been installed on computers automatically [...]

After upgrading to IE7 in Windows XP, we found that non-admin users were once again seeing the Open File Security warning dialog box.
Once again, the issue can be resolved by visiting the group policy. Open up the appropriate policy file, and follow the path to:
User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer [...]

In IE7, adding your own custom search is beautifully simple now that Microsoft have added the Create Your Own to the ‘Find More Providers…’ link in IE7

So, it seems sensible that your blog would want a piece of the action.
To that end, here’s a quick example of my own search provider. As IE7 uses [...]

Inline search
For people fed up with the CTRL+F search function in IE, there’s a handy addon that acts (almost) in the same manner as the Firefox find bar.
It’s now on version 1.3, which has resolved some tiny bugs that used to get me wound up.
It doesn’t integrate as nicely into IE7 as I would [...]