The address bar in Internet Explorer 9 is used both to type the address of websites you want to browse and to search the web. By default, it uses Bing to search the web but you can install other providers such as Google. If you are looking for other search providers, search no more as we have a list with the most useful you can find in the Internet Explorer Gallery of add-ons.

Are you using a modern video card from AMD, such as the AMD Radeon HD 5000 or 6000 Series? Do you have problems with text being very blurry in Internet browsers or applications from the Windows Essentials package, such as Mail, Messenger or Photo Gallery? Then you are in luck - we have a solution for you to fix this problem.

We continue our series of articles on Internet Explorer with a quick and useful tip: how to set 2, 3 or more websites as a homepage. Do you love reading 7 Tutorials and How-To Geek? Well... you can read our latest articles with a single click on the Internet Explorer icon. Let’s see how this is done.

Internet Explorer 9 brought plenty of changes, including a new interface for downloading files and managing them. Therefore, this tutorial will explain how downloading works in Internet Explorer 9, how to access and manage downloaded files, clear your download history and change the default download folder. Last but not least, I will explain a security feature used by Internet Explorer 9 to monitor and block certain files from being downloaded, called SmartScreen Filter.

You might have heard about this new feature of Internet Explorer 9 - pinned websites. Apparently you can pin websites on your taskbar and on your Start Menu. But what this feature really is? How does it work and is it really useful in real life? This complete guide aims to answer these questions and also provide information you will find nowhere else on the Internet.

If you are like me, you surely installed quite a few add-ons for Internet Explorer 9, simply to extend its functionality and get more out of it. However, by doing so, you also impact its performance. Depending on how many and what add-ons you install, the load and navigation speed can sensibly increase. Luckily, Internet Explorer 9 has a very cool functionality which allows you to evaluate the performance impact of add-ons and disable those creating problems. Let’s see how this works.

One of the things missed in previous versions of Internet Explorer is having an ad blocker, such as the famous AdBlock extension which has versions for Firefox, Chrome or Opera. With Internet Explorer 9, the functionality required to block ads is built-in in the default browser and it is called Tracking Protection. There’s no need to install any add-ons. You simply need to subscribe to the appropriate protection lists. This tutorial will show how.

After showing how to install and also remove Internet Explorer 9 add-ons, I thought it would be useful to share with you some of the best add-ons you can find for Microsoft’s latest browser. Therefore, I searched for a couple of days and tested lots and lots of add-ons: from very broken add-ons to terribly useful ones. Now that this exercise is finished, this is my list of "Top Add-ons for Internet Explorer 9".

Have you installed add-ons for Internet Explorer 9 which you no longer need? Or do you simply need to use them on rare occasions? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, then read this tutorial. You will learn how to disable add-ons (which can be enabled back later) or remove unwanted add-ons.

Since we just demystified Internet Explorer 9 add-ons and what they do, it is only natural to show how to install such add-ons on your computer. This tutorial will cover everything you need to know on the subject. Read more to find out.

If there’s one thing I ‘hated’ about Internet Explorer 9 since day 1 is the fact that, by default, it shows both the address bar and the list of opened tabs on the same row. This translates into one crowded top row which quickly becomes unusable. How do you solve this problem? Well... the solution is pretty simple - you can set Internet Explorer 9 to show the opened tabs on a separate row. Let’s see how.