• Welcome to Tux Reports: Where Penguins Fly. We hope you find the topics varied, interesting, and worthy of your time. Please become a member and join in the discussions.

Preserving/resetting internet options

W

Wes Groleau

Flightless Bird
I'd like a way to capture my Internet options and
quickly apply them elsewhere, or re-apply them to the
same machine.

Ideally in a format hand-editable.

Does IE have a .ini file? Where?

I did a registry dump, changed them, and did another dump
but I couldn't find any changes in the registry.

What I'm after is the proxy settings (bypass list)
and the cookie settings (don't blindly accept all of them)
including the list of sleazeballs to reject from.

There are a few others that I'm tired of manually setting
when I take the laptop from home to work, or when Windows
for some unknown reason decides to reset to factory defaults.

I know about a couple of proxy-switchers, but they don't
catch some of the things I want. Plus one of them goes
bonkers when I use the VPN to the office.

--
Wes Groleau

From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth,
From the laziness that is content with half-truths,
From the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth,
O God of Truth, deliver us.
--Leslie Dixon Weatherhead
--Rabbi Mordechai M. Kaplan
--ancient prayer
--unknown
--(no attempt at attribution)
(a thousand thanks to someone who can tell me who
really wrote it AND persuade me they're not making it up!)
 
A

Alan Edwards

Flightless Bird
No .ini file

Try this:
Internet Explorer Backup - BackRex Software:
http://www.backsettings.com/internet-explorer-backup.html

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.com/index.htm



On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:34:08 -0500, in
microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general, Wes Groleau
<Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote:

>I'd like a way to capture my Internet options and
>quickly apply them elsewhere, or re-apply them to the
>same machine.
>
>Ideally in a format hand-editable.
>
>Does IE have a .ini file? Where?
>
>I did a registry dump, changed them, and did another dump
>but I couldn't find any changes in the registry.
>
>What I'm after is the proxy settings (bypass list)
>and the cookie settings (don't blindly accept all of them)
>including the list of sleazeballs to reject from.
>
>There are a few others that I'm tired of manually setting
>when I take the laptop from home to work, or when Windows
>for some unknown reason decides to reset to factory defaults.
>
>I know about a couple of proxy-switchers, but they don't
>catch some of the things I want. Plus one of them goes
>bonkers when I use the VPN to the office.
 
W

Wes Groleau

Flightless Bird
Alan Edwards wrote:
> Try this:
> Internet Explorer Backup - BackRex Software:
> http://www.backsettings.com/internet-explorer-backup.html

Bummer. Works perfectly except for two details:

1. The resetting to defaults happens during login.
BackRex says that the restore is not effective
till after a reboot. But a login, which does
the damage, happens after the restart.

2. I wanted something that would _quickly_ reset
them. BackRex restores with a wizard--six clicks.
The settings that frustrate me take fifteen clicks
to fix. The remaining nine can be done a lot faster
than a reboot and login, considering that Novell
networking is involved.

--
Wes Groleau

Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which
the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.
-- unknown
 
A

Alan Edwards

Flightless Bird
I haven't used BackRex for years and I have forgotten what it saves.
I only ever experimented with it in Win98 and didn't restore anything.

If you export the Registry settings to several .reg files, it
shouldn't be too much trouble to merge them.
A small batch file to create the .reg files shouldn't be hard, though
I thought BackRex would have done that.
Another batch file to merge with one click also should be easy.

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.com/index.htm



On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:03:51 -0500, in
microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general, Wes Groleau
<Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote:

>Alan Edwards wrote:
>> Try this:
>> Internet Explorer Backup - BackRex Software:
>> http://www.backsettings.com/internet-explorer-backup.html
>
>Bummer. Works perfectly except for two details:
>
>1. The resetting to defaults happens during login.
> BackRex says that the restore is not effective
> till after a reboot. But a login, which does
> the damage, happens after the restart.
>
>2. I wanted something that would _quickly_ reset
> them. BackRex restores with a wizard--six clicks.
> The settings that frustrate me take fifteen clicks
> to fix. The remaining nine can be done a lot faster
> than a reboot and login, considering that Novell
> networking is involved.
 
W

Wes Groleau

Flightless Bird
Alan Edwards wrote:
> I haven't used BackRex for years and I have forgotten what it saves.
> I only ever experimented with it in Win98 and didn't restore anything.

Actually, it works pretty well. It SAYS you have to reboot to get the
restored settings, but not true. If you run it while IE is NOT running,
then they are all there the next time you open it.

Now if I could just get it to "just do it" instead of making me click
"Next" six times. :)

--
Wes Groleau

Change is inevitable.
Liberals need to learn that "inevitable" is not a synonym for "good."
Conservatives should learn that "inevitable" is not a synonym for "bad."
-- WWG
 
W

Wes Groleau

Flightless Bird
Alan Edwards wrote:
> If you export the Registry settings to several .reg files, it
> shouldn't be too much trouble to merge them.
> A small batch file to create the .reg files shouldn't be hard, though
> I thought BackRex would have done that.

Yes. It puts some of the settings in .reg files, some in .ini files,
some in other formats, if you run the installed program and select
"backup." In the backup directory, with all of those files, it also
creates a version of itself that can only do restore. BUT, both do
run as wizards so you have to click Next six times. This is not ideal,
but since the reboot nonsense is bogus, it's tolerable.

> Another batch file to merge with one click also should be easy.

Only if you can make it not run as a wizard.

As I said, that part is a nuisance, but it's better than
what I had before. So thanks! for the reference.

--
Wes Groleau

Genealogical Lookups:
http://groleau.freeshell.org/ref/lookups.shtml
 
W

Wes Groleau

Flightless Bird
Wes Groleau wrote:

> Actually, BackRex works pretty well. It SAYS you have to reboot to get the
> restored settings, but not true. If you run it while IE is NOT running,
> then they are all there the next time you open it.
>
> Now if I could just get it to "just do it" instead of making me click
> "Next" six times. :)

Dug around the help files, and there is a command line version that can
run without any prompts. Almost there. But it has a flaw. It somehow
"remembers" that it has already done a restore and if you ask it again,
it does nothing. Unfortunately, the settings get reset to defaults and
BackRex doesn't know that, so it won't restore. Sigh.

--
Wes Groleau

Film Review: El último tren
http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/russell?itemid=1480
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top