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Tweak and fix issues of Internet Explorer with IE Tweaker


If you are an Internet Explorer user this tool might be a good companion. The portable, freeware tool, IE Tweaker has over 90 tweaks and fixes and will help you to enable/disable any options with ease and without getting in to registry.
IE Tweaker will work with various versions of Internet Explorer (IE 6, 7and 8) and has the following menu options for tweaking and repairing IE.

  • Browsing Options: Lets you quickly off/on Smooth Scrolling, Clear type font, Animation, Sounds, Picture Display, Automatic Image resizing
  • Clear Junk Files: Remove all the temporary IE files, cookies, history, passwords, and AutoComplete data.

Tweak IE – Tweak IE menu has the following tabs:

  • Basic Tweaks – Offers you the basic tweaks such as Turn off/on Menu bar, Favorite bar, Tabbed browsing, Full screen mode, Caret Browsing support etc.
  • Browser Menus – Helps you to disable/enable the Browser Menus
  • Toolbars – Helps you to hide/unhide the various options on the bars and also the bars itself such as Status bar, command bar etc
  • Control Panel – Helps you to hide/unhide the various tabs in Tools -> Internet Options.
  • Advanced – Helps you to Turn off/on various options such as Compatibity view etc., and also allows you to change the IE Title, and Default download directory options.
Restrictions – This menu option has the following tabs:
  • Restrictions tab – Provides you various restriction options such as Changing default search provider, Add-ons management, Autocomplete features etc.
  • Settings tab – Restricts the users to change various settings.
  • Security – Allows you to enable/disable options such as InPrivate Browsing, Filtering etc.
  • Repair – Repair menu option provides you various options to repair/fix various issues that you have with Internet Explorer.

In addition to it there is also desktop Shortcuts for various modes of Internet Explorer in Shortcuts Folder.
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