How To Reset Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Browser

If Internet Explorer is your default web browser, or if you are sometimes using the browser on your system, you may come into a situation where the browser is not working properly anymore. It may crash on you for instance, or system settings appear so broken that you cannot fix them by yourself. The latter can happen if your system was compromised by a virus, or if someone used tweaking software to modify Internet Explorer settings.

If you have updated Internet Explorer to a new version on your system, for instance to IE9 on Windows 7, you could try and uninstall Internet Explorer. If you are running the default version, for instance Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8, you do not have that option.

Microsoft has created a Fix-It, a small portable program, to reset Internet Explorer settings on Windows systems the script is executed on.

All you need to do is launch the program after you have downloaded it to your system. Follow the instructions until you come to the following screen.

The Reset Internet Explorer Settings Fix It will automatically reset the following:

Disable Toolbars and add-onsDefault web browser settingsPrivacy settingsSecurity settingsAdvanced optionsTabbed browser settingsPop-up settings

It is furthermore possible to delete personal settings, they include:

Resets home pages, search providers and Accelerators to default settings.Deletes temporary Internet files, history, cookies, web form information, ActiveX Filtering and Tracking Protection data, and passwords.

A click on the reset button runs the process in the background. It should not take longer than twenty seconds before everything has been reset to factory defaults. Keep in mind though that you need to restart Internet Explorer before you see the changes take effect.

If you have selected to delete personal settings as well, you will see the welcome screen when you start Internet Explorer for the first time.

Internet Explorer users can alternatively reset the Internet browser without the Fix-It script. The easiest way to perform this operation is to use Windows-r to bring up the run box on the system, and load inetcpl.cpl from there. This brings up the Internet Properties.

Switch to the Advanced tab and locate the Reset button at the bottom of the page. All Internet Explorer windows need to be closed before you can use the feature. The reset button will display the same reset options as the Fix-It.

Resetting Internet Explorer can be useful in situations where you are experiencing issues that you can manually fix anymore.

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Reset Firefox Feature Gets An Update

When it comes to repairing the Firefox web browser because of issues that you experience while using it, you are often in for a rather long winded troubleshooting process. Less tech savvy users might try to re-install the browser only to find out that reinstallation likely did not resolve the issues at all. Others might start Firefox in Safe Mode to reset the user preferences to Firefox defaults or a migration of their existing profile to a new one.

Creating a new profile usually resolves issues as most are user profile related and not browser related. The process however is complicated and not as straightforward as it can be.

And this is without doubt the core reason why Mozilla plans to integrate a reset feature into the browser. The idea here is to reset the browser by creating a new profile and migrating core user data to that profile. Something that would take half an hour or longer to complete can now be completed with a few clicks in the browser’s user interface.

The reset Firefox option can be accessed in three different ways according to the updated Mozilla wiki document on the topic.

During installation, either by automatic detection or user request, that the new installation is actually an attempt to repair the web browser.Three crashes in a row on startup will trigger a prompt that offers to start the browser in safe mode or to reset Firefox.Actively clicking on the Reset Firefox option on the Troubleshooting page in the browser.

Once the command is invoked, it will run a number of tasks:

Confirm with the user what actions are about to be takenCreate a new user profileMigrate user data: Bookmarks, History, Saved passwords, Autofill form data, Extensions and themesReset toolbars and controlsReset all user preferences to Firefox default/li> Disable all add-ons and switch to the default themeThen Firefox will restart using the new profile.

Add-ons and themes are migrated to the new profile, but deactivated in the process. This could cause some confusion but may be necessary as add-ons may be the cause for the experienced issues. Users can go into the add-ons manager to re-enable the add-ons and their favorite theme.

Advanced users may also need to make changes to the advanced user configuration again as everything is reset to factory defaults.

Mockups have been posted which are attached below.

The resetting feature is still in development, and it is not clear when it will be integrated into the Firefox browser. Check out the wiki entry for updates. (via Techdows)

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