Microsoft KB Archive/177725

= Description of the Internet Explorer PowerToys =

Article ID: 177725

Article Last Modified on 6/5/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 1.0
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.01
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 128-Bit Edition
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.2
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.01
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 128-Bit Edition
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
 * Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 128-Bit Edition
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01

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NOTE: This article provides information about a configuration that is not supported by Microsoft Technical Support. This article is provided for informational purposes only; Microsoft makes no guarantee that this configuration will function properly.



SUMMARY
This article describes the Microsoft Internet Explorer PowerToys.



MORE INFORMATION
The Internet Explorer PowerToys enhance your use of Internet Explorer. These tools can be obtained from the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40/powertoys/

The following tools are added to Internet Explorer when you install the PowerToys.

Image Toggler
Using Image Toggler you can enable or disable displaying images in Internet Explorer. To toggle images off or on, click Toggle Images on the Links Bar.

Links List
Using Links List you can view all the links on a Web page. To view all the links on a Web page, right-click the Web page, and then click Link Lists. When you click Link Lists, a new window opens that lists every link on the page.

Open Frame in New Window
Using Open Frame In New Window you can view a Web page designed to use frames as a non-frame Web page. To view a Web page without frames, right- click the Web page, and then click Open Frame In New Window.

Quick Search
Using Quick Search you can access search engines using search engine abbreviations. The following is a list of the default Quick Search abbreviations.   Abbreviation   Search Engine -  av             AltaVista ex            Excite hb            HotBot is            InfoSeek isu           InfoSeek Ultra ly            Lycos mc            MetaCrawler mg            Magellan ot            OpenText wc            WebCrawler y             Yahoo! For example, to search the AltaVista search engine on the word "ActiveX," type "av ActiveX" (without quotation marks) in the address bar in Internet Explorer.

Text Highlighter
Using Text Highlighter you can highlight text in a document. To highlight text in a document in Internet Explorer, right-click the selected text, and then click Hightlight.

Web Search
Using Web Search you can search the Internet for additional Web pages that contain selected words from a Web page. To start a Web search, drag the mouse pointer to select the text for which you want to search, right-click the selected text, and then click Web Search.

Zoom In/Zoom Out
Using Zoom In/Zoom Out you can zoom in and out of any image on a Web page. To zoom in or zoom out of an image in Internet Explorer, right-click the image, and then click Zoom In or Zoom Out.

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