IE9: Top keyboard shortcuts

Set aside your mouse and use these keyboard shortcuts to help keep you browsing more efficiently. In Internet Explorer 9, some of your most frequent and essential tasks can be accomplished more quickly by using the keyboard.

Press this	To do this
Alt	Show the menu bar. After you make a selection, the menu bar goes away.
Alt+M	Go to your homepage.
Alt+C	View your favorites, feeds, and browsing history.
Ctrl+J	Open Download Manager.
Ctrl+L	Highlight the text in the Address bar.
Ctrl+D	Add a webpage to your favorites.
Ctrl+B	Organize your favorites.

How to uninstall Internet Explorer 9

Some users may have installed the beta of IE9 to just to have a sneak peak of it and want to go back to a previous version of Internet Explorer after testing the beta release on their computer. The question came up if the installation of Internet Explorer 9 affects another version of Internet Explorer on the operating system. The answer to that question was yes: Internet Explorer 9 replaces an older version of Internet Explorer during installation. So you need to uninstall IE9 to go back to stable version of Internet Explorer.
Unlike most other programs on your computer, however, you won't find IE9 listed on the Uninstall or change a program screen. Windows Internet Explorer 9 has been installed as a system update in the operating system.

Here's what you need to do to uninstall IE9 on Windows Vista or Windows 7:

Click Win+R and type appwiz.cpl. click your windows button and type view updates in the search box

Once the results appear, click view installed updates

Don't want to search? Press Win+R and paste in the following:
C:\Windows\explorer.exe shell:::{d450a8a1-9568-45c7-9c0e-b4f9fb4537bd}
then press Enter.

Wait for the Uninstall an update screen to load completely

Scroll through the list until you find Windows Internet Explorer 9 (see fig below)

Click once to highlight IE9, then click the uninstall button (or right-click and uninstall)

Confirm that you want to uninstall (click yes)

Click one of the following:

• Restart now (to finish the process of uninstalling Internet Explorer 9, and restore the previous version of Internet Explorer).

• Restart later (to wait until you shut down or restart your computer).

Hope this helps!

How to solve Internet Explorer 9 installation problems?

Problems having installing IE9 on Vista, Windows7 or Windows 2008. Here is a beautiful summary of troubleshooting these issues from Microsoft. This URL have all the necessary information about Pre requisites and resolutions.

Click this URL for more information.

"LM/W3SVC/1/root/webapplication" already exists. Please choose a different alias.

This is the very common error that any web programmer can face when we web share a folder.The solution is to remove the virtual directory entry from the IIS window. But what if the entry does not exist in the IIS window. This situation comes when you delete/move the folder from the c:\inetpub\wwwroot folder before deleting its virtual directory. So the solution is to remove the virtual directory entry from the IIS.

Here is the Procedure to remove virtual directory entry from the IIS database?

Here are the 3 ways how we can do this.

1. Use following command

Syntax
iisweb /delete WebSite [WebSite...][/s Computer [/u[Domain\]User/p Password]]

You can get more help on this from here.

2. Recreate the folder with the same name in the c:\inetpub\wwwroot and then restart the IIS (use iisreset.exe). You will see the virtual directory with the same name in the IIS window, now remove the virtual directory from IIS.

3. Use the following command by opening the command prompt.
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\cscript adsutil.vbs DELETE "W3SVC\1\root\"

For more information on adsutil.vbs.

Hope this helps.

Micrsoft launches new explorer IE9 beta

Microsoft is back to take its internet explorer turf from Google Chrome and Firefox with newly launched beta version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9). Microsoft claims that IE9 delivers faster speed as it uses HTML5 and new web technologies like CSS3 and SVG2 and GPU for acceleration.

Check out the new developer capabilities of Internet Explorer 9 here at IE9 Test Drive.

IE9 will only be available for Windows Vista and Windows 7 -- those still using XP will have to stay with IE8.

There are many new features in IE9.

Some of them are listed below,

- A completely new design
- Pinned sites
- A download manager
- Enhanced tabs
- New tab page
- Search directly in the address bar
- Notification bar
- Add-on performance advisor
- Hardware acceleration.

Using Internet Explorer 9, you can pin sites like Hotmail, CNN and Facebook to your taskbar and then launch them like an app. To pin, just grab the tab in the browser and drag it to your taskbar.

You can Download IE9 beta from this link.