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Urgent: a Windows Fix You Should Consider

James S. Huggins — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:09:17 +0000

As to it’s urgency and necessity, please read this and decide for yourself.

Free Report on Web Accessibility

James S. Huggins — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:02:44 +0000

Cheryl Wise (starttoweb.com) has alerted me that the Nielsen Norman Group is making their $124 accessibility report, “Beyond ALT Text: Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities”, available for free. This report has 75 best practice tips for increasing the usability and accessibility of your website.I do not know how long this will last.

www.nngroup.com/reports/accessibility

An Interview with … ME!

James S. Huggins — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:54:13 +0000

Tanner Christensen has posted on his Internet Hunger site, the results of an interview he had with me.

Did I really say that stuff?

An Internet Explorer 7 Tool

James S. Huggins — Mon, 07 May 2007 18:55:31 +0000

A few days ago I posted about a technique to put the File/Edit/View menu bar of IE7 where it is supposed to go (ok … I’m biased).

I just found another way to do this, and a bit more as well. It is a free, downloadable tool that will let you tweak IE7.

It lets you move the menu bar, enable/disable Clear Type and set a default location for saving pages. It also has a repair function that can repair uninstall problems.

Moving the IE7 File-Edit-View Toolbar to the Top

James S. Huggins — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:37:03 +0000

If you have begun using IE7, you have almost certainly noted that the classic menu, the File-Edit-View Toolbar is not on the top, immediately under the window title, where it ought to be.

We have spent years creating a standard layout for the graphical user interface (gui). And for some unknown reason Microsoft decided to not abide by their own standards.

Fortunately, you can fix it. This page explains how.

Put the info below in notepad and save as toolbar.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser]

“ITBar7Position”=dword:00000001

Here are my my attempts at clarification:

There are three lines of text. They begin with “Windows”, “[HKEY_CURRENT_USER” and “ITBar7Position”.
If you copy paste into notepad, change the “curly” quotation marks to plain straight quotation marks.
You may save the file on your desktop.
After saving the file on your desktop, double click it and allow it to update the registry.
If that doesn’t do the job, reboot.

If you try this and have any problems, let me know. I’ll keep tweaking this post.