Update: New Online

I'm adding an IE4 section to the Links area here this week. I've got only a few links, but they're the best of what I've seen. If you have any further suggestions, please post them. (And if you're an IE4 "guru," consider signing on to be a Suite101.com editor for Internet Explorer... we could sure use one!)

One IE4 site I'm listing is one I've been reluctant to mention due to its interface (major frames, sort of confusing). It's got a new home now, and a much-improved interface, and is now a site I'll happily recommend: the IE4 Info Site.

And from that site, I gleaned another purpose to IE4's loadwc.exe file, which loads at startup by default and consumes quite a bit of memory. Back in the November '97 Internet Explorer 4 on NT article, I knew (from the file's source and Registry entries) that loadwc.exe had to do with subscriptions, but I only recently learned that it was necessary for maintaining multiple IE4 user profiles. I actually learned that on Usenet, but IE4 Info Site posted a knowledge base reference which more than satisfied my curiosity.

So now to recap: if you don't use web subscriptions and you don't use multiple user profiles, you can get rid of loadwc.exe by renaming the file itself (found in the \System32 directory).

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IE4 Tweakin Tool is a 45KB freeware utility that makes some well-known Registry changes, and can apply some IE4 fixes to common problems, for you. These include adding/removing certain Start Menu folders (e.g., Favorites), restoring alphabetical sort order in menus, killing (or getting back) the OE splash screen, and so forth.

vbscripting for file management

PC Magazine's June 30th issue features a PC Tech column called File Management via Windows Scripting.

If you actually read the thing, you might question its very first posit regarding what we NT command line users have to do to delete files (by extension) from the command line:

"First you create a file containing the names of all the TMP files by entering

DIR C:\*.TMP /A/B/S > deltmp.bat

on the command line. Then, you edit the resulting batch file to put DEL at the start of each line and, finally, run the batch file - a fairly cumbersome solution for a relatively simple task!"

fairly cumbersome... TO SAY THE LEAST! when a simple del command will do the work in one line!

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