Environment : Microsoft Windows

This article was contributed byVishal KHAPRE

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Microsoft has provided users with Internet Explorer Administration Kit 6 for customization. In any case, Author can never be held responsible for the damages to Registry or User System. The unsolicited changes might damage the system.

Internet Explorer reads many of its basic properties from the Windows Registry. The location is HKEY_USERS\Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Internet Explorer\Main . It has several keys that have specific values and meanings. For example, the 'Start Page' Key will specify the URL of your home page(i.e. when you press the HOME button in borwser).

Location :HKEY_USERS\Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Internet Explorer\Main

The Key is Cache of String type and the value is same as above one.

Location :HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\TypedURLs\

This stores the previous URLs that User typed in address bar for viewing. It usually has Key names as url1, url2 and so on. the Key datatype is string and value as the URL itself.

Location :HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ActiveX Cache

This stores the path for downloaded ActiveX Components. The key is '0' of string datatype. Usually it is under system root, as 'Downloaded Program Files'.

Location :HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones

This has the information about the security zones of IE, e.g. Trusted Sites, Restricted Sites, Intranet and Internet.

This is about the Windows Registry and Internet Explorer. I found this when I was working on some application development where I wanted to use the Internet Explorer as per my needs on a user's machine. The major focus of this article is to find easy ways for application. Next time, I will cover some more on the Windows Registry.

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