PC Mechanic, New Article

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 03:00 AM PDT

It’s here! Windows Internet Explorer 9 is officially out of RC and into official RTM release!

Below is a video of my initial impressions about the browser.

The good: IE9 is great as far as IE goes. Definitely better than IE8, has great features where it counts.

The bad: New tracking options a bit too complicated, Private Browsing still complicated to get to, hiding the zoom controls/status bar by default is dumb but fortunately can be brought back (seen in video).

Also, as state in the video, even if you’re the biggest IE hater in the world, this is the first IE in a very long time that’s actually good and won’t tick you off. Yes, really. See video below for details.

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Windows Internet Explorer 9 RTM [VIDEO]

How To Stop VLC From "Building Font Cache"

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:00 AM PDT

This is a follow-up to this article; these instructions do stop VLC from building a font cache permanently.

VLC is a great media player, but the problem is that if you run a registry cleaner like CCleaner, VLC’s font cache gets wiped and it must rebuild it. This can get very annoying real quick. Here’s how to get VLC to stop building a font cache: