Before you even SUGGEST IT, I’m not going to a different browser. I dont’ care about anything else much, and I can’t use Opera. There. Settled.
That said, a particularly vicious set of spyware has hit my com and put all sorts of retarded adult sites in my comp. Fair enough, wipe it off, I run Adaware about every day as is, and for some reason SpyBot tends to hang when I use it. But this bout won’t let me change my homepage for the bullshit “search enging” that it made as my home page, nor wipe my temp files or history: the General tab in Internet Options is just… gone. Liek it was never there.
Anybody have an idea to restore it? I’m running SpyBot (or trying to) to get rid of whatever the hell is on my comp, but I want that tab back.
First off, I’d suggest getting AdAware along with Spybot, using both together tends to achieve better results, and make sure they’re both updated. I’d also run a virus scan, a good free one being AVG Anti-Virus.
And despite you saying so, at least take a look at Slimbrowser after you get all your problems solved. It runs off of IE (so the download is tiny) and adds useful features that IE lacks. You’d get the same problems as you currently have with any browser methinks, so run those programs. Either way, I highly suggest you give Slimbrowser a try, it’s extremly similar to IE becasue it runs off of it, but adds features for those people who don’t mind using IE in the first place.
Also, if you right click on the Standard IE Toolbar (The thing with the Back Button, the Homepage Button and the History button), and go to “Customize Standard Toolbar”, you can add and remove certain parts of the toolbar. I assume you would be able to put the History tab back on there.
If it’s a good user interface you want, why use a two year old rendering engine when you can have a rendering engine merely 2 weeks old (Check out Firebird)? I’m just asking.
Yeah, that’s a solution, but not an effective one. I’m sorry to hear about that virus thing SS. If nothing else helps, why don’t you buy a Norton Utilities package. My comp was screwed up a while ago (not with your problem though) and I ran all the tests it had and it fixed it. It’s not a free solution but at least you won’t have to back up your entire hard drive.
Heh, it’s not hard to back up the neccessary files though. Especially if you have Broadband, or another computer. I’d say what that costs you costs you way less than getting Norton AV. Even though having that is a good thing to have…
Well, at least my computer (Windows 2000) came with three backup disks. I’m just asking if he knew which one had IE on it, so maybe (I’m not sure as I’m no expert), you could reinstall that disk and not have to redo his whole hard drive.
First off, I’d suggest getting 
All that does is move some icons around.