Use RepairIE to tweak, lock down, and fix Internet Explorer

Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Windows, Microsoft, Freeware, Browsers

Use RepairIE to tweak, lock down, and fix Internet Explorer

by Lee Mathews Oct 20th 2008

Fire up the half-megabyte, portable RepairIE and you're presented with five tabs to help make administering Internet Explorer an uncomplicated process.

Configuration options are broken down into appearance, features, network connections, search, and security. To change a yes/no option, simply double click it and confirm your action.

RepairIE provides an incredible number of options for configuring not only the Internet Exlporer interface, but its options menu as well. For starters, you can restrict your users from altering the homepage or toolbars, prevent them from downloading files, and disable access to file URLs.

There are also numerous options for limiting access to the tools -> internet options menu. Any or all of the tabs can be hidden, changes can be prevented to history, temp files, home page, search - and just about everything else. Messenger integration can also be disabled, as can the Internet Connection wizard. For a more detailed listing, pay a visit to the developer's site.

I was disappointed, however, that the content advisor reset didn't work on my IE7 install. People forgetting their password is a fairly common problem, so I was hoping this feature would be able to get the job done.

Since RepairIE is altering registry settings, it would also be nice if it included an option to back up and restore affected keys. I'd also like to be able to save settings to make modifcations on multiple machines easier.

Despite its shortcomings, RepairIE is still a good, free option for preventing IE-related headaches on a small network at home or work.

[ via gHacks ]

Tags: administration, annoyances, browsers, internet explorer, InternetExplorer, repair

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

whiskey said 11:46AM on 10-20-2008

I'm curious if this can speed up tabs (by making it not load about:tabs)?

Speaking of which... There ought to be a tool like this to deal with and lock down computer policies. So you could have a set of rules and you could get a snapshot of them in case something went wrong... Or maybe it knew already where to fix stuff and you where only needed to yes/no like with this tool...

Lee Mathews said 11:46AM on 10-20-2008

Not sure if this is exactly what you want, but check out Nawras Supervisor: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/13/nawras-pc-supervisor-portable-security-policy-editor/

Alex M said 12:02PM on 10-20-2008

I have a better, also free option for preventing IE-related headaches, Firefox!

Quikboy said 12:15AM on 10-22-2008

But what will you do if there's FF-related headaches? :P

Brian said 6:51PM on 10-21-2008

There's another app that came out awhile ago that did fixed all the problems with Internet Explorer... here's a link:

http://getfirefox.com/

Quikboy said 12:14AM on 10-22-2008

I got an even better, more recent app that fixed this too!

http://microsoft.com/ie8

mashell said 11:17PM on 11-18-2008

internet explorer, will not take me to myspace, keeps bringing me back to my log in page. it was fine, though slow, until yesterday. not impressed wi IE7. AM DOWNLOADING ANOTHER VERSION NOW

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