Category Archives: Internet Explorer

Case of the Unwanted Chrome Search Modification

Posted on November 26, 2015 by chentiangemalc

A friend’s machine had the Google Chrome home page set to piesearch.com But there is no homepage set in settings. Checking the Chrome Shortcut in Start Menu we can see it’s been modified, so we remove the piesearch parameter. This … Continue reading →

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Case of the IE Hangs-Citrix HDX Flash Redirection

Posted on September 19, 2014 by chentiangemalc

To start with I wanted to capture IE hangs properly. In modern versions of Internet before you capture hang dumps you ideally want to set the TabProcGrowth value to 0 under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main This will force IE to put all … Continue reading →

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Patching a PAC File To Improve Performance

Posted on September 18, 2014 by chentiangemalc

Having taken the trouble to write a PAC file debugger ( https://chentiangemalc.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/pacdbg-custom-proxy-browser-set-proxy-cmd-line-tool/ ) I have to say I’ve seen some pretty horrendous PAC files, where attempts have been made to put the entire network design in this little JavaScript file. … Continue reading →

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Case of the Office XP Web Component ActiveX

Posted on June 3, 2014 by chentiangemalc

There was a website used for reporting, but when users went onto Windows 7 for some users the reports did not show up, only on some user machines. For this type of issues I typically like to get two logs: … Continue reading →

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Case of the Office 365 “Something Went Wrong”

Posted on April 3, 2014 by chentiangemalc

Intermittently in SharePoint Online the Office 365 toolbar would just not appear. In other cases it would appear but Outlook Web Access would get stuck at logon and eventually fail with message “something went wrong”  This problem only occurred to … Continue reading →

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PacDbg + Custom Proxy Browser + Set Proxy Cmd Line Tool

Posted on September 30, 2013 by chentiangemalc

My collection of proxy utils published to github. The C# .NET 4.0 source code and latest versions of these utilities is published on GitHub here: https://github.com/chentiangemalc/ProxyUtils To just download the pre-compiled .NET 4.0 executables (may not be latest versions): https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=D1BB3113E6943B7F!3551&authkey=!AKu4VpNZzDXU51k … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, C#, Command Line, Internet Explorer | Tagged | 10 Comments

Use RunAs For Proxy Authentication on Windows

Posted on August 27, 2013 by chentiangemalc

Sometimes you may run into a situation where: You have a proxy server that requires authentication You are unable to run the program under an account that has proxy access The program doesn’t respond to “407” Proxy Authentication Required by … Continue reading →

Posted in Command Line, Fiddler, Internet Explorer | Tagged | 2 Comments

Case of the Triple Single Sign On Sign On Sign On

Posted on October 18, 2012 by chentiangemalc

A customer still in Windows XP land was also still suffering along with IE6 … and with final mitigating issues preventing upgrade out of the way – off they went, on their merry way, to the wonderful modern world of … Continue reading →

Posted in Application Compatibility, Internet Explorer | Tagged | 1 Comment

Case of the Missing ActiveX Control (DHTML Edit Control)

Posted on May 29, 2012 by chentiangemalc

A customer was upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 64-bit. During application testing phase the following issue was found with their Lotus iNotes webmail. The place to type your email was filled with nothing but a little red cross, … Continue reading →

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An Epic Battle of Adobe vs IE vs SAP

Posted on April 12, 2012 by chentiangemalc

This all started out on a Windows 7 deployment project very innocuously. A small group of users would occasionally (2-3 times a week, some people 1-2 times a day) try to browse a web page but get the standard Internet … Continue reading →

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