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BROWSERS
Give your COOKIES.TXT file a Read-Only attribute, sites won't be able to write to it; there won't be any error messages, and the sites will think they are writing to it successfully.
If you can't find http://www.anysite.com/pages/missing.html, try the parent directory, http://www.anysite.com/pages, and see if you can link to it from there. If not, drop back to http://www.anysite.com.
When you type a URL, just start it with www. Your browser will automatically fill in http://.
Use the keyboard rather than your mouse to cruise the Web more quickly. Press the Tab key to move from link to link, even within image maps, and press Enter to click on a link. Press Ctrl+B to organize your favorite bookmarks.
To create a shortcut to the current page: Just right-click on the page and select Create Shortcut. You can also cerate shortcuts by dragging and dropping Web links directly to your desktop.
Right-click on the frame where you want to retrace your steps, then select "Back " in frame.
Right-click on a link and select "Open in New Window." This will open the page in a new Navigator window, allowing you to browse in your original window while waiting for pages to download to the other.
Unless the author codes a specific dimension in pixels into a frames-based page, you can resize the frames to your liking. Position your cursor over a frame's boundary. If the cursor changes to a two-headed arrow, you can drag and resize the frames.
You can select a large block of text by clicking and dragging to highlight it - or you can left-click at the beginning of the passage, release the mouse button, then scroll down to the end of the desired text. Left-click again while holding the Shift key.
You can save a page or graphic from the Web to your local drive. Right-click on it and select "Save Picture As...," then pick a location on your drive to store it.
If you're looking for a particular word or phrase on a Web page, you can find it fast by pressing Ctr+F to bring up a search dialog box.
WEB UPDATE DISPLAY. You can find out when a Website was last updated by entering the following in the address/location bar:
javascript:alert(document.lastModified)
Search Engines
Don't use a single word in a search query or the search will turn up everything under the sun - most of it useless. search for incontext phrases for more on-target results. Usually, you can search for an exact match to a text string when you enclose it with quotation marks. Check your engine's instructions for the most accurate details.
Avoid common "spamdex" terms - words that Web site marketers often add into hidden parts of a page's HTML coding. This is done so that these pages wind up on the top of query results lists and get numerous hits. spamdex terms include sex, free, shareware, Web and Windows.
Network Reconnections Command Prompt
If your PC connects through a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server - which means its IP address is automatically assigned by the server - the link between the server and your PC may sometimes become muddled.  To restore it click Star > Run, type cmd, and press Enter.  At the command prompt, type ipconfig/ release and press Enter.  Then type ipconfig/renew and press Enter. ipconfig  /release

ipconfig  /flushdns

ipconfig  /renew

ipconfig  /registerdns

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