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DADDY BOB'S COMPUTER Q & A
October 1, 2006
Q.
Sometimes when I open a web site in Internet
Explorer there is a little icon in the
bottom tray that looks like a red circle
with a line through it. If I hold the mouse
pointer over it, it says Privacy Report.
What's this all about?
A.
This is part of Internet Explorer's
security. Taken directly from the Internet
Explorer help file we find this:
The Privacy Report
in Internet Explorer enables you to: view
the P3P privacy policy for a Web site, find
out if a Web site might contain information
provided by a third-party Web site (a Web
site other than the one you are viewing), or
find out if Internet Explorer restricted any
cookies from the Web site you are viewing.
To view the Privacy Report in Internet
Explorer, on the View menu, click Privacy
Report.
P3P
stands for the Platform for Privacy
Preferences. It is a protocol that websites
can (should) use to declare their intentions
about any information they may collect about
the person browsing the site. It was
designed with the idea that it would give
users more control of their personal
information. Information that may be
collected without the user's knowledge when
they browse a site. Unfortunately, not all
web sites are following these guidelines.
Double
clicking this icon in the status bar of IE
or View/Privacy Report
will open the dialog shown here which allows
you to view the information on the
restricted site or all web sites you have
visited.
If you
want to see the Privacy Report for a
particular site, like the "atdmt" shown
above, just highlight it, and click the
summary button. Here is what will be
displayed:
Information on the collector's intentions
are displayed along with any compliance type
organization they may belong to.
As you can see, I have cookies from this
site blocked.
Q.
I recently installed Microsoft Office and
now in my Start Menu Outlook has taken over
from Outlook Express. I don't want to use
Outlook, so how do I get Outlook Express
back?
A.
As you have found out, Outlook will
definitely try to take over as your default
email program. Fortunately, it is easy to
set Outlook Express back to your default.
To change
it on the Start Menu, right click a blank
spot on the taskbar, and choose Properties.
Click the Start Menu tab, and then the
customize button. Near the bottom, in the
section labeled "Show on Start Menu, click
the scroll down arrow on the email entry,
and select Outlook Express. That will put it
back on the Start Menu.
To set
outlook Express as your default email
program, click Start, then Control Panel,
then Network and Internet Connections, then
Internet options. Click the Programs tab,
and change the email to Outlook Express.
There may
be one more thing necessary. Open Outlook
Express, and if it tells you that it is not
the default program, choose to make it the
default. If you are not asked to make OE the
default, then open Outlook Express, click
Tools, then Options. Click the General tab,
and near the bottom of the dialog, click on
the "Make Default" button. Now Outlook Express has wrestled
control back from Outlook, and it will be
your default email handler. |
