Restoring URL autocomplete feature in IE.

p_lider — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:10:49 +0000

I recently faced strange problem with IE8 browser. The URL autocomplete feature suddenly stopped working. I searched the internet deeply to find the fix for this problem with completely no luck. Analyzing how the IE8 browser works I found, that it is looking for a COM object with class ID {80A3E9B0-A246-11D3-BB8C-0090272FA362} when trying to autocomplete URLs. I then googled for the library which contains the object with mentioned Class ID and found that it is “langwrbk.dll“. Having that in mind fixing the problem was as easy as executing one command:

regsvr32 langwrbk.dll

This worked in IE8 browser, however I am almost sure it will work in other versions of IE as well.

Improve page rendering in IE8

p_lider — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:02:33 +0000

While searching the Internet for an solution for one problem I had, I accidentally found something, that can be useful for everyone who use IE8 as his primary browser. Manual registering one dll library can improve the IE8 rendering performance. The reason for that is unknown, because the dll library had been registered during installation of the browser (without it the IE8 cannot run). The magic command to execute is:

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\actxprxy.dll

After executing it log off and then log on again – the IE8 performance from now will be visibly higher.

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Restoring URL autocomplete feature in IE.

Improve page rendering in IE8