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This made it work on one machine. Thanks for this. We have struggled with this problem for years IE compatibility mode warnings. Your suggested solution solved all our issues. Thanks so much! Sponsored by:. Share on:. On this page:. NET Core. Is this content useful to you? Consider making a small donation to show your support. Posted in Internet Explorer. Vish May 24, Very useful and timely for me : One question I had that I thought you might be able to help with was whether application configuration is done only name.

So, if there are multiple apps with the same name on the machine, all of em are forced to use the same IE settings? Thank You, Vish.

Rick Strahl May 24, But that begs the question. Mark June 19, It is a little hard to understand why the WebBrowser control does not default to using the highest version of IE installed but I suspect people much brighter than I have a defensible reason. Kind Regards Mark. Rick Strahl June 20, I recently switched an app over to IE9 operation and that broke a ton of functionality which I had to work around with client side script code called from the host application.

It took a lot of experimenting to get this right because it now has to work with both old and new versions of IE testing is a lot of fun for this. By specifying the version in the registry you tie an application to a specific version although you still have to deal with downlevel support for older browser installs – yuk.

Incidentally this version switching scheme is an excellent way to let you test operation under various versions of IE :- You can have an app hosted in the Web Browser control and manually or via code switch the registry values to use a different version of IE. Andrew Duthie June 23, This was just what I needed. Putting together something for a demo, and your post just saved me a ton of work. Richard September 14, There should at least be a property we can set to enable this, without having to elevate and hack the HKLM hive of the registry!

As for having multiple settings for the same exe name, what if two vendors produce applications with the same executable name? Vendor A wants their “helper. With the current system, there’s no way to have both applications working on the same PC at the same time. Role September 15, Rick Strahl September 16, Anything in the HTML document is too late to switch engines.

Then there’s the issue of what’s actually installed on the the machine. Obviously you can’t render IE 9 style if IE 9 isn’t installed ;-. That’s good to know. Incidentally I’ve had a heck of a time trying to automate the new Range API even knowing that it’s different.

It breaks inconsistently and causes all sorts of headaches. Will give the old API a shot and see if that helps.

Richard September 19, You can even use the developer tools to switch the browser and document modes on the fly. All I’m saying is, we should be able to have this level of functionality within our own applications, without having to hack the registry. As it stands, Chromium is looking like the better option.

Rick Strahl September 19, But it is what it is – AFAIK this is the only way to get later than IE 7 behavior in the Web Browser control and while it’s an ugly, ugly hack to have to resort to the registry its something that can be easily enough handled by an installer. If there’s another way I’d love to know about it. I would love to make this user selectable with a switch so they can determine what they see!

Especially given IE 9’s mungled ClearType only rendering that can’t be turned off and which drives me nuts and is the main reason I don’t use IE 9. Bernard Bout October 21, Anil October 22, Its worked by adding my application name vfp9. Any specific reason? Rick Strahl October 22, There’s some overhead in the ActiveX container as it has to fire events into the container – if FoxPro code runs in response to anything in the DOM it’ll likely slow the browser down quite a bit.

Why would there be errors in IE9 or IE7? It sounds like IE is actually rendering in the right version, but the pages you’re accessing are maybe generating errors? Make sure you set both 32 bit and 64 bit keys if you’re running on Windows 7 so settings apply to both versions of IE if you install the 64 bit version often the 32 bit version runs anyway especially via COM automation.

Also remember that VFP9. For your own app you have to add another key for the actual EXE name in the registry. Anil October 23, LambertWM November 13, I also appreciate your remark about not forgetting the to add a key for “yourapp.

SebH December 29, But what about if using a dll instead of a. What value should have then key? Rick Strahl December 29, SebH December 30, So there’s no way for me : I’m using a. IE6 websnapshots from Tonec If one day i find how to, i’ll post the answer there ;. AshB January 10, Your post has saved me a lot of pain. Phillip February 02, I can’t tell you how many hours and days i have researched and tried all sorts of things to get the webbrowser ctrl out of ie7 mode.

Serveral posts I’ve seen hinted to it, but I couldn’t find the answer anywhere. You totally blew me away when i found this post. I use the webbrowser for Editing and display extensively in my app for users to create markup which gets inserted in emails or web page content. The ie7 code with all caps tags, invalidated xhtml. Again, Thanks a ton Rick for posting this, and writing it so clearly too!

Your posts are golden. That solved the createRange issue. This is important for me, since it allows users to specify the default value of an input element in wysiwyg mode. It appears that the rightmose side of the document’s content always goes underneath the Vertical scrollbar.

This happens no matter how wide your control or content is. It seems to be a bug in the control. It’s not recognizing the bounds of the vertical scrollbar. This does not happen in ie7 mode. The right-most side of the block element will always display underneath the vertical scroll bar, no matter what you do. If anyone is able to resolve this, please reply. TIA if anyone can shed light on this probable bug. If I resize a block element Div, Input, etc by dragging the handles of one dimension width or height , it “always” increases the other dimension also.

I can’t figure why. It does not matter if I have the registry hack for vfp9. Simply the Doctype seems to be causing this. If I remove the Doctype declaration it doesn’t have this issue but of course reverts back to ugly html. I guess the WB control is problematic for editing when specifying a Doctype, regardless if the hack is set for ie9 or not.

Anyone else expreriencing this. Bryan February 15, Because of you, I was able to solve a client problem within 15 minutes and the customer was happy. Rick – you da man! Thank you for posting this! David February 19, I have a 64 bit Windows 7 machine that does not have the “WowNode” key, so I used the 32bit path and it worked like a charm.

Could there be something else that is causing you to use the “WowNode” key? Possibly an enterprise version of Windows? I haven’t tried it, and can’t find the page again in msdn. Rick Strahl February 19, The wowNode key is where the registry is redirected to by 32 bit applications so it has to be there on a 64 bit machine that has any 32 bit apps running and it will – even Windows natively has many 32 bit apps.

I tried the meta header, but that only affects the rendering style once the browser is loaded. For me that alone didn’t work. Ken March 21, Question is it possible to force a 64 bit wpf app to only use the 32 bit browser with a similar reg edit? My issue is pdf’s – they open correctly in a 32 bit wpf app but when running 64 they need to open a new IE browser. Thanks again. Asdf April 20, WinXP 32bit , IE8. I’m also using Delphi btw. Maybe there is an Exec command for this, or a special message?

Any ideas? Rick Strahl May 16, I suppose it is possible since the IE Tools let you switch the engine on the fly but I have no idea how that can be done. As far as I can tell the values are read only when the engine is created in an app for the first time. It works and save a lot of time for me. Thx a lot. Jeff Rhodes July 27, I was tripped up by the fact that the key did not seem to be working because I was running in Visual Studio.

Your site has been helpful to me multiple times. Keep up the good work! Gilmore August 21, It works fine in a regular browser but not the activex.

The problem is that the activex is not in my application, so I can’t change the Registry values. Rick Strahl August 21, That’s the only way I’ve found that to work. Jim Tollan September 04, Ok, back to the subject. Rick Strahl September 04, You can also explicitly reference the document and set the scroll style to none from code. Only tested on one machine. I’ve been searching for this for years and finally found it here. God bless you, Rick, God bless you! JD November 10, I’ve been searching for this for months!!

Been working on a project to parse email from Yahoo Very helpful with automation!!! John Kortis November 22, Quetsion though, Crystal Reports renders larger in the COntrol than in the browser, even with the settings What sense does it make to add the “application name” for the exe, when there could be multiple different applications with the same EXE name.

Why not just put the EXE’s full path in the registry? I don’t know, maybe that makes too much sense? This override has the potential to really stuff up other vendors apps when setting for your own exe. Rick Strahl December 11, Rich December 14, If not, what’s the difference?

Rick Strahl December 14, Icey December 20, But in my application, it seems not work at all. My Environment: VS C ,. NET 4, local IE8. Below is my code. In my app, java script errors dialog always be popupped, even the register key is set. Collections; using System. Generic; using System. Diagnostics; using System. Drawing; using System. IO; using System. InteropServices; using System. Text; using System. RegularExpressions; using System. Threading; using System. Forms; using Microsoft. SetValue Path.

GetFileName Application. ExecutablePath , 0, RegistryValueKind. DWord ; key. Rick Strahl December 20, For one thing most applications won’t have rights to write the registry key and that’s most likely what’s happening. If you’re going to muck with this – do it during the application installation, or else you have to ensure you run with elevated rights ie. Run As Administrator. The code is just a sample to test. I tryed adding the register key out of my application, in another word, I added the register key by REGEDIT application, and then ran my app, my app still had problem.

The account is Administrator account. Rick Strahl December 21, Just make sure you write the right keys and in the right place in the registry for 64 bit and 32 bit applications.

On 64 bit systems you have to write it into both places as 32 bit applications will look in one place and the 64 bit ones in the other. Vibhore Tanwer January 06, Any help why that could be happening? Rick Strahl January 06, You need to set both since on a 64 bit machine both are used. Vibhore Tanwer January 18, It fails on both Windows 7 bit and Windows 8 bit. Is there anything else that I am missing? Dmitri February 14, Has anyone been able to get it to work on Win8? Rick Strahl February 15, Both 32 bit and 64 bit compiled versions of my EXE work and show rounded borders and shadows.

Also make sure the name matches exactly in the registry and you’re using the right kind of value DWORD. Dmitri February 15, I tried different combinations of x86 and 64 bit still no luck. I made sure to run the right exe. I actually develop on a win7 comp and then copy to a win8 machine.

Dave March 15, This solution is not working. Browser keeps saying IE7. Very frustrating. The application is specifically for a kiosk, so I suppose I could always install 32bit. Anyone manage to figure this out?

Paco April 05, No luck on Win 7 with IE9. I have a Windows Form application using a webbrowser control to automate navigation through a web site. At one point, I must click on calendar control that causes navigation to another page. In a free standing browser IE9 or IE10 clicking a day on the calendar causes immediate navigation to the desired page with virtually no delay, but in the webbrowser control, clicking a day causes a call to the server and postback with substantial delay before switching pages.

The html for the calendar days uses j-stuff that I really don’t understand, and don’t know how to trigger. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Paco April 06, Even with IE 10 in my webbrowser control, handling of jscripts or jquerys is different than in a free standing browser.

Can you shed any light on this? Tom Py April 19, I just started getting script errors this year in an app I wrote years ago that actually stopped loading data from site when it got the error. With this fix, which I did not see anywhere else through Google, my app loads the flash data properly. I’m using ie10 in windows 7 and f hex worked for me. Rainer Euhus May 17, Solved a problem with a ‘position: fixed’ element, which wasn’t displayed before I added the registry entry.

Jon Alonso June 17, I found it more than useful. I was struggling with the CSS differences between my IE8 and the embedded browser, but changing the latter to IE8 mode just solved the problem.

Drew White July 27, Plasbot August 28, I was agonizing over a problem and finally gave up with webbrowser, and was looking for an alternative on stackoverflow when I stumbled across a comment about “feature mode emulation”, and suddenly I realized that was my problem.

I was simply trying to make a webbrowser login to tumblr. I couldn’t even get it to work typing it and clicking myself. Per September 02, I was making a new Windows Forms app which make use of WebBrowser control.

But if I programmatically check if key exists, it says both are there? Even if I force to write to both places it still, when you look manually, appears only at WowNode but when check with the program it says it exists in both places?? Found answer, when executable is compiled targeting x64 it writes to both registry keys, but when it is compiled to ‘any’ or x86, it only writes to the WowNode key.

Sandra September 12, I have set registry entry value to I use Snipping Tool a ton at work, using the copy function and the save function. The new OneNote is terrible compared to the old one. At least that’s my opinion.

Which “new” OneNote? The one included with the system. It’s been tragically neutered and is a downgrade. The desktop version is fine. The desktop version of OneNote is free, so use that instead. Hilariously timed post. Hp Stream 7? Windows button and volume down doesn’t work. There are many articles about this problem. The windows key, unlike other tablets, on the HP Stream series stream 8 as well as stream 7 are not physical buttons recognized by the OS but are soft buttons so the screenshot method does not work.

If running Windows 8. Ok cool, just for taking screenshots when playing xbox streaming was my goal. Thank you so much! It’s great, but double clicking the Surface Pen no longer allow you to capture part of the screen. Contrary to what this article says. Lots of people on the MS Support forum unhappy. It seems there’s no way to get the pen to launch the desktop version of OneNote either, even if it’s set as the default application in both the OneNote and Win 10 settings.

I used that function of the pen all the time. FastStone Capture has been around since XP. Captures and edits all permutations; sends to file, email, or printer. Also does video and audio. So comprehensive, I keep an icon on my taskbar. What’s not to love?

Method 3, just an app, doesn’t work for me. I didn’t even know it was possible. Add a dropbox or other recipient which accepts any files, and you can save the screenshot there. Whoa, neat. Definitely missed that and will add. Can vouch for greenshot. Best software for screenshots. Also has built in imgur integration for those who like posting on reddit. It allows you to do a screen clipping with your mouse and will put it into a new note, or copy to clipboard for whatever your heart desires.

Wow, thanks! I didn’t know this, obviously. Double-clicking the pen to capture the screen no longer works on my Surface Pro 3 since I upgraded to Win Customizable shortcut keys, too. I have a problem when i press the purple button on my surface pen, it always asks me to put in my password. It doesn’t open OneNote automatically like it used to in 8. I haven’t changed the sign in options since 8.

I copy to the clipboard. Very lightweight, several options custom screenshot name, save location, format and more. Can auto start with the system and the best part is that you can set custom hotkeys for taking a screenshot of the whole screen, active window, selected region.

You can choose a key combo or, what I do, simply pick a function key for each. It’s my favourite. There’s also DuckCapture. Both free :. Don’t forget another hidden gem that Microsoft never talks about, Problems Steps Recorder. Just download “Lightshot”. Best software for this purpose. We talked about shutting the site down before. Most seriously in when instead, we decided to go ad-free , keeping the site up as a public service.

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After locating the template file in your PC or Mac, simply delete it. Now, open Microsoft Word to create a new Normal.

Check whether this helps to solve the slow processing issues in Microsoft Word. Related: How to quickly insert dividers in Microsoft Word? In some cases, when you type on a Word document, it will lag for few seconds or longer from the moment you press the key. This will badly affect your productivity by causing delay and diverting your concentration when doing important work.

Newer Office versions use hardware graphics acceleration to speed up the performance. However, slow computers often have limited hardware resources, which make Word less responsive. Follow these steps to disable hardware acceleration in Word:. If Microsoft Word still performs slowly, it may be a good idea to perform changes in the registry.

Note that modifying registry is not recommended and you may not have access in the administered computers.

If you have access to registry editor then backup your data and follow the below steps:. Related: Fix slow Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. If Microsoft Word seems to react poorly to any command for processing a task, you may need to look for updating to the latest service pack.

The latest service pack may provide you with bug fixes and performance optimization. Microsoft releases service pack regularly, generally they are installed automatically if you have auto update enabled. Otherwise you need to check and update them manually. Often, by installing a new service pack, you can regain lost performance.

Note that Apple stopped supporting bit applications from macOS Catalina. Hence the bit Mac Word or apps will no more work on your Mac. Ensure to purchase Office subscription to work with bit compatible Office apps on your Mac.

Also ensure your Windows OS is getting automatic security updates to make sure that rest of the system is working properly. Microsoft updates Windows 10 automatically , however follow the below steps to check the status and manually update:. Related: How to change embedded document name in Word? You may remedy it easily by reinstalling Office package. Follow these steps to uninstall and re-install Office in Windows Generally, Word will delete them automatically when you save and close your document.

For example, if you zip the content when the document is open then the compressed folder will include the temporary file in addition to the original file. Follow these steps to cleanup the temporary files :. Often, less optimized document files cause slow performance. Check whether your document has plenty of embedded macros and remove any of them if possible. Many people also put high quality pictures with large resolution inside documents. You need to optimize the pictures by changing the dimension that matches the size of the page.

You may also use Adobe Photoshop or Snagit to save these images in optimized format to reduce the file sizes without sacrificing the quality too much.

One of the reasons for slow Word app is the corrupted documents. This will help you to speedup the document as Word will disable extensions and other unnecessary stuffs in safe mode. Sometimes, Word will also suggest to open a document in safe mode. Related: Fix slow Microsoft Outlook emails. Some times people share the locked file in chat, emails or SharePoint. You may notice, slow response time in Word when you open and read locked documents.

Otherwise, you can request the owner to share the file without edit lock. If you use add-ins to enhance the functionalities then ensure to disable them when you have problem with Word. Check whether this helps to resolve your problems. You can enable the add-ins back any time when needed. So when you experience slow response, typing delay or any other problem, it is a good idea to check all the above steps.

This will ensure to fix the problems and focus on creating documents with improved productivity. Editorial Staff at WebNots are team members who love to build websites, find tech hacks and share the learning with community. Connect with us in Facebook and Twitter. Microsoft offers Office as a packaged application containing Word,[ Windows operating system uses a mouse cursor which is also[ Organizing files on Mac is one of the important tasks[ Option 2 worked for me also.

The tech tips are clearly laid out and easy to understand. Surprisingly, 2 worked here perfectly. Apparently there is an incompatibility. Heading off now to see if there is a new driver for the card that may fix it. Thank you! My BF has spent the last 4 days trying to find a solution. I googled it and found your post. Within 5 min it was fixed. What do they say about men not wanting to ask for directions? Currently documentation is always a problem in cross platform applications, as there is no equivalent of Windows CHM Help system on other OSs especially when it comes to jumping to a specific Help entry.

This is a huge gap that has yet to be filled — and probably because no one has pushed hard enough to do it. Executable eBooks are the closest solution I’ve seen so far to replacing CHM help iles, except that all such compilers relied heavily on MS WebControl and no one looked on how to implement the same on Linux and Mac.

I guess you must have given your own thoughts on this very issue, having developed West Wind Html Help Builder and Markdown Monster , and realizing how important documentation is, and that most of today eBook like standards are not really concerned with protecting the contents.

It would appear that this shortcut changed when the MSDN article was moved from the referenced location to an archived “previous-versions” location. I’ll echo the many other comments – fantastic article. My language is Delphi , and the Registry Hack was exactly what I needed. Works fantastic in HKCU. Like you, I use inno setup, so your example saved me a little time there. Perhaps most importantly, you deserve recognition, not only for a great article, but for how well you support and respond to all the comments that have been made over the years.

Hats off to you. Hi Rick First of all can I add my thanks for this webpage- now 7 years old but still the best reference for this issue. I have been successfully using code in Access for users to get their current geolocation. All worked fine until the latest Windows update to version Since then IE reports that ‘the geolocation service failed’ If I load the same file into Edge, the correct location is still obtained. The same issue can be seen by loading the w3schools geolocation feature which uses similar code to mine in different browsers.

I’m unclear whether this is a bug or if the IE geolocation service been deliberately disabled e. If its a bug, what’s the best way to report it to MS? I have integrated webbrowser control in outlook – custom task pane where html form gets display.

I have browser emulation registry entry with outlook. I think it works fine as html form loads and as such no error also user agent shows proper IE One issue I see is “onkeyup” javascript event is not working there. Not sure any issue with outlook. The web page is not being displayed properly. It gives some script error. However the same web page is properly displayed when i try to open from a stand alone Microsoft IE I tried adding the key in the registry setting with a value for IE However it did not help.

After the registry setting, when i try to run that software that hosts the web browser control, it shuts down immediately. Any help is much appreciated in this case. Well done Rick, thank you! It was just for a personal project automating collection of my smart-meter daily half-hour usage data, for which my electricity provider has so far failed to produce a simple downloadable. However, a text listing for each daily set of data is available about clicks-down following login Oh great Your article, 15 minutes, including a built-in reg check at program start-up in case I ever migrate the program to another machine and forget what to do – Problem Solved!!!

You don’t need to reboot, but you have to restart the application. This was helpful for finding out if Rick’s registry solution worked for a WPF application I have no control over.

And it did, thank you Rick! This is very useful for cases where I have control over the content. I can’t use the registry settings for vfp9. I found that a registry key value of 0 seems to behave like “latest installed”. No indepth investigation but 0 works fine for me with wwhelp. For Foxhhelp9. This made it work on one machine. Thanks for this.

We have struggled with this problem for years IE compatibility mode warnings. Your suggested solution solved all our issues. Thanks so much!

Sponsored by:. Share on:. On this page:. NET Core. Is this content useful to you? Consider making a small donation to show your support. Posted in Internet Explorer. Vish May 24, Very useful and timely for me : One question I had that I thought you might be able to help with was whether application configuration is done only name. So, if there are multiple apps with the same name on the machine, all of em are forced to use the same IE settings? Thank You, Vish. Rick Strahl May 24, But that begs the question.

Mark June 19, It is a little hard to understand why the WebBrowser control does not default to using the highest version of IE installed but I suspect people much brighter than I have a defensible reason. Kind Regards Mark. Rick Strahl June 20, I recently switched an app over to IE9 operation and that broke a ton of functionality which I had to work around with client side script code called from the host application. It took a lot of experimenting to get this right because it now has to work with both old and new versions of IE testing is a lot of fun for this.

By specifying the version in the registry you tie an application to a specific version although you still have to deal with downlevel support for older browser installs – yuk.

Incidentally this version switching scheme is an excellent way to let you test operation under various versions of IE :- You can have an app hosted in the Web Browser control and manually or via code switch the registry values to use a different version of IE. Andrew Duthie June 23, This was just what I needed. Putting together something for a demo, and your post just saved me a ton of work. Richard September 14, There should at least be a property we can set to enable this, without having to elevate and hack the HKLM hive of the registry!

As for having multiple settings for the same exe name, what if two vendors produce applications with the same executable name? Vendor A wants their “helper. With the current system, there’s no way to have both applications working on the same PC at the same time. Role September 15, Rick Strahl September 16, Anything in the HTML document is too late to switch engines. Then there’s the issue of what’s actually installed on the the machine.

Obviously you can’t render IE 9 style if IE 9 isn’t installed ;-. That’s good to know. Incidentally I’ve had a heck of a time trying to automate the new Range API even knowing that it’s different. It breaks inconsistently and causes all sorts of headaches.

Will give the old API a shot and see if that helps. Richard September 19, You can even use the developer tools to switch the browser and document modes on the fly. All I’m saying is, we should be able to have this level of functionality within our own applications, without having to hack the registry. As it stands, Chromium is looking like the better option. Rick Strahl September 19, But it is what it is – AFAIK this is the only way to get later than IE 7 behavior in the Web Browser control and while it’s an ugly, ugly hack to have to resort to the registry its something that can be easily enough handled by an installer.

If there’s another way I’d love to know about it. I would love to make this user selectable with a switch so they can determine what they see! Especially given IE 9’s mungled ClearType only rendering that can’t be turned off and which drives me nuts and is the main reason I don’t use IE 9.

Bernard Bout October 21, Anil October 22, Its worked by adding my application name vfp9. Any specific reason? Rick Strahl October 22, There’s some overhead in the ActiveX container as it has to fire events into the container – if FoxPro code runs in response to anything in the DOM it’ll likely slow the browser down quite a bit.

Why would there be errors in IE9 or IE7? It sounds like IE is actually rendering in the right version, but the pages you’re accessing are maybe generating errors?

Make sure you set both 32 bit and 64 bit keys if you’re running on Windows 7 so settings apply to both versions of IE if you install the 64 bit version often the 32 bit version runs anyway especially via COM automation.

Also remember that VFP9. For your own app you have to add another key for the actual EXE name in the registry. Anil October 23, LambertWM November 13, I also appreciate your remark about not forgetting the to add a key for “yourapp. SebH December 29, But what about if using a dll instead of a.

What value should have then key? Rick Strahl December 29, SebH December 30, So there’s no way for me : I’m using a. IE6 websnapshots from Tonec If one day i find how to, i’ll post the answer there ;. AshB January 10, Your post has saved me a lot of pain. Phillip February 02, I can’t tell you how many hours and days i have researched and tried all sorts of things to get the webbrowser ctrl out of ie7 mode. Serveral posts I’ve seen hinted to it, but I couldn’t find the answer anywhere.

You totally blew me away when i found this post. I use the webbrowser for Editing and display extensively in my app for users to create markup which gets inserted in emails or web page content.

The ie7 code with all caps tags, invalidated xhtml. Again, Thanks a ton Rick for posting this, and writing it so clearly too!

Your posts are golden. That solved the createRange issue. This is important for me, since it allows users to specify the default value of an input element in wysiwyg mode. It appears that the rightmose side of the document’s content always goes underneath the Vertical scrollbar. This happens no matter how wide your control or content is.

It seems to be a bug in the control. It’s not recognizing the bounds of the vertical scrollbar. This does not happen in ie7 mode. The right-most side of the block element will always display underneath the vertical scroll bar, no matter what you do. If anyone is able to resolve this, please reply. TIA if anyone can shed light on this probable bug. If I resize a block element Div, Input, etc by dragging the handles of one dimension width or height , it “always” increases the other dimension also.

I can’t figure why. It does not matter if I have the registry hack for vfp9. Simply the Doctype seems to be causing this. If I remove the Doctype declaration it doesn’t have this issue but of course reverts back to ugly html. I guess the WB control is problematic for editing when specifying a Doctype, regardless if the hack is set for ie9 or not. Anyone else expreriencing this. Bryan February 15, Because of you, I was able to solve a client problem within 15 minutes and the customer was happy.

Rick – you da man! Thank you for posting this! David February 19, I have a 64 bit Windows 7 machine that does not have the “WowNode” key, so I used the 32bit path and it worked like a charm. Could there be something else that is causing you to use the “WowNode” key?

Possibly an enterprise version of Windows? I haven’t tried it, and can’t find the page again in msdn. Rick Strahl February 19, The wowNode key is where the registry is redirected to by 32 bit applications so it has to be there on a 64 bit machine that has any 32 bit apps running and it will – even Windows natively has many 32 bit apps.

I tried the meta header, but that only affects the rendering style once the browser is loaded. For me that alone didn’t work. Ken March 21, Question is it possible to force a 64 bit wpf app to only use the 32 bit browser with a similar reg edit? My issue is pdf’s – they open correctly in a 32 bit wpf app but when running 64 they need to open a new IE browser.

Thanks again. Asdf April 20, WinXP 32bit , IE8. I’m also using Delphi btw. Maybe there is an Exec command for this, or a special message? Any ideas? Rick Strahl May 16, I suppose it is possible since the IE Tools let you switch the engine on the fly but I have no idea how that can be done. As far as I can tell the values are read only when the engine is created in an app for the first time. It works and save a lot of time for me. Thx a lot. Jeff Rhodes July 27, I was tripped up by the fact that the key did not seem to be working because I was running in Visual Studio.

Your site has been helpful to me multiple times. Keep up the good work! Gilmore August 21, It works fine in a regular browser but not the activex. The problem is that the activex is not in my application, so I can’t change the Registry values. Rick Strahl August 21, That’s the only way I’ve found that to work. Jim Tollan September 04, Ok, back to the subject. Rick Strahl September 04, You can also explicitly reference the document and set the scroll style to none from code.

Only tested on one machine. I’ve been searching for this for years and finally found it here. God bless you, Rick, God bless you! JD November 10, I’ve been searching for this for months!! Been working on a project to parse email from Yahoo Very helpful with automation!!! John Kortis November 22, Quetsion though, Crystal Reports renders larger in the COntrol than in the browser, even with the settings What sense does it make to add the “application name” for the exe, when there could be multiple different applications with the same EXE name.

Why not just put the EXE’s full path in the registry? I don’t know, maybe that makes too much sense? This override has the potential to really stuff up other vendors apps when setting for your own exe. Rick Strahl December 11, Rich December 14, If not, what’s the difference?

Rick Strahl December 14, Icey December 20, But in my application, it seems not work at all. My Environment: VS C ,. NET 4, local IE8. Below is my code.

In my app, java script errors dialog always be popupped, even the register key is set. Collections; using System.

Generic; using System. Diagnostics; using System. Drawing; using System. IO; using System. InteropServices; using System. Text; using System. RegularExpressions; using System. Threading; using System. Forms; using Microsoft. SetValue Path. GetFileName Application. ExecutablePath , 0, RegistryValueKind. DWord ; key. Rick Strahl December 20, For one thing most applications won’t have rights to write the registry key and that’s most likely what’s happening.

If you’re going to muck with this – do it during the application installation, or else you have to ensure you run with elevated rights ie. Run As Administrator. The code is just a sample to test. I tryed adding the register key out of my application, in another word, I added the register key by REGEDIT application, and then ran my app, my app still had problem. The account is Administrator account. Rick Strahl December 21, Just make sure you write the right keys and in the right place in the registry for 64 bit and 32 bit applications.

On 64 bit systems you have to write it into both places as 32 bit applications will look in one place and the 64 bit ones in the other. Vibhore Tanwer January 06, Any help why that could be happening? Rick Strahl January 06, You need to set both since on a 64 bit machine both are used. Vibhore Tanwer January 18, It fails on both Windows 7 bit and Windows 8 bit. Is there anything else that I am missing? Dmitri February 14, Has anyone been able to get it to work on Win8?

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Great summary. Windows Office — the whole office word, excel, outlook, PowerPoint were running slow, lagging and responding slow, Uninstalled 32bit office and installed 64bit office. Running great now! I was confused as to why Word was slow when I tried to open it, it would take mins while PowerPoint, Excel and Publisher opened in just secs.

I just deleted the Normal. My Microsoft word is working slowly in my newly purchased dell laptop. It has affected my productivity of work. Request you to help me to solve this issue. Ashish — did you try deleting normal. If it is a new laptop that comes with a free Office package, get in touch with your dealer. It should have a warranty period to cover up the cost.

Deleting the normal. Disabling the hardware acceleration seemed to help quite a bit although I have a powerful system. I then went to delete the temp files. One of them deleted nearly all of my documents it did seem like a lot. Fortunately I just sent them to the recycle bin so I could restore.

It seems there are javascript ECMA6 compatible syntax like “let” “of” is not understandable by browser control and throws error. Does this registry change, enables browser control to use latest version of javascript? Even though I added it loads on IE 11 and not edge. How can we force control to use IE edge without using registry?

Used below script to check the version. At this point you probably should just force IE 11 given that it’s the browser that will be used on most machines Win7 forward via install or Windows Update. This article is really great, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been referencing it in the last 3 years! Can the browser compatibility mode be used also to affect how CHM files are viewed in Windows? This would be great, since I’ve noticed that currently CHM files offer poor html support — e.

Tristano – yes you can use it on CHM, but it’s a global setting. You have to set it on hh. Thank your prompt reply Rick — and forgive me for this late response, but my PC crashed and had to reinstall from scratch, and I’ve just managed to recover this link now that I’m back working on my project.

I’ve read the article you’ve linked, very interesting and well written. This is exactly what I feared, ie: a setting that would affect all CHM files. So, I guess it would be a bad idea as this might compromise how some CHM Helps are displayed, especially those whose author has strived to beautify with custom CSS.

Usually CHM authors expect hh. It’s a pity that Microsoft didn’t come up with a similar registry key for CHM files, which the help viewer could check before opening the CHM file. I mean, this issue of the WebBrowser control has a long history, so MS could have thought of this, but apparently they didn’t.

From what I understood, currently MS has no plans to drop the old WebBrowser control in favour of an Edge-based modern control. I wonder why that is. I haven’t had a chance to actually use them, but I’ve heard of a. I find it really frustating that the WebBrowser control limitations have prevented the creation of some cross platform system for local HTML-based documentation. The reasons that got me to this article are that in the past I’ve worked a lot with executable ebooks or “compiled websites”, as they were often referred to.

They were quite trendy in the late 90’s, but then faded away; one of the main reasons being lack of cross plaformness, but also the WebControl IE7 limitation. Unfortunately, none of these eBook compilers have been updated to add the registry hack to emulate IE Some eBook compilers offer some custom scripting extensions allowing to tweak the registry, this allows creating workarounds to fix the web browser compatibilty issue I’ve managed to achieve it with 2 eBook compilers, but none of the solutions was too elegant in the end.

For a long time I’ve been tinkering with the idea of creating an eBook compiler that would produce cross-platform HTML documentation in a self-contained binary.

When Chromium came out I though it would finally be possible, but then I saw that you can’t create a standalone binary using CEF — lots of dynamic libraries, and quite heavy too. If West Wind Html Help Builder could create cross platform binary standalone documentation files, whose contents can’t be hacked, it would be really superb. Currently documentation is always a problem in cross platform applications, as there is no equivalent of Windows CHM Help system on other OSs especially when it comes to jumping to a specific Help entry.

This is a huge gap that has yet to be filled — and probably because no one has pushed hard enough to do it. Executable eBooks are the closest solution I’ve seen so far to replacing CHM help iles, except that all such compilers relied heavily on MS WebControl and no one looked on how to implement the same on Linux and Mac. I guess you must have given your own thoughts on this very issue, having developed West Wind Html Help Builder and Markdown Monster , and realizing how important documentation is, and that most of today eBook like standards are not really concerned with protecting the contents.

It would appear that this shortcut changed when the MSDN article was moved from the referenced location to an archived “previous-versions” location. I’ll echo the many other comments – fantastic article.

My language is Delphi , and the Registry Hack was exactly what I needed. Works fantastic in HKCU. Like you, I use inno setup, so your example saved me a little time there. Perhaps most importantly, you deserve recognition, not only for a great article, but for how well you support and respond to all the comments that have been made over the years.

Hats off to you. Hi Rick First of all can I add my thanks for this webpage- now 7 years old but still the best reference for this issue.

I have been successfully using code in Access for users to get their current geolocation. All worked fine until the latest Windows update to version Since then IE reports that ‘the geolocation service failed’ If I load the same file into Edge, the correct location is still obtained.

The same issue can be seen by loading the w3schools geolocation feature which uses similar code to mine in different browsers. I’m unclear whether this is a bug or if the IE geolocation service been deliberately disabled e. If its a bug, what’s the best way to report it to MS?

I have integrated webbrowser control in outlook – custom task pane where html form gets display. I have browser emulation registry entry with outlook. I think it works fine as html form loads and as such no error also user agent shows proper IE One issue I see is “onkeyup” javascript event is not working there.

Not sure any issue with outlook. The web page is not being displayed properly. It gives some script error. However the same web page is properly displayed when i try to open from a stand alone Microsoft IE I tried adding the key in the registry setting with a value for IE However it did not help. After the registry setting, when i try to run that software that hosts the web browser control, it shuts down immediately.

Any help is much appreciated in this case. Well done Rick, thank you! It was just for a personal project automating collection of my smart-meter daily half-hour usage data, for which my electricity provider has so far failed to produce a simple downloadable.

However, a text listing for each daily set of data is available about clicks-down following login Oh great Your article, 15 minutes, including a built-in reg check at program start-up in case I ever migrate the program to another machine and forget what to do – Problem Solved!!! You don’t need to reboot, but you have to restart the application. This was helpful for finding out if Rick’s registry solution worked for a WPF application I have no control over. And it did, thank you Rick!

This is very useful for cases where I have control over the content. I can’t use the registry settings for vfp9. I found that a registry key value of 0 seems to behave like “latest installed”. No indepth investigation but 0 works fine for me with wwhelp.

For Foxhhelp9. This made it work on one machine. Thanks for this. We have struggled with this problem for years IE compatibility mode warnings. Your suggested solution solved all our issues. Thanks so much! Sponsored by:.

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Posted in Internet Explorer. Vish May 24, Very useful and timely for me : One question I had that I thought you might be able to help with was whether application configuration is done only name.

So, if there are multiple apps with the same name on the machine, all of em are forced to use the same IE settings? Thank You, Vish. Rick Strahl May 24, But that begs the question. Mark June 19, It is a little hard to understand why the WebBrowser control does not default to using the highest version of IE installed but I suspect people much brighter than I have a defensible reason.

Kind Regards Mark. Rick Strahl June 20, I recently switched an app over to IE9 operation and that broke a ton of functionality which I had to work around with client side script code called from the host application. It took a lot of experimenting to get this right because it now has to work with both old and new versions of IE testing is a lot of fun for this.

By specifying the version in the registry you tie an application to a specific version although you still have to deal with downlevel support for older browser installs – yuk.

Incidentally this version switching scheme is an excellent way to let you test operation under various versions of IE :- You can have an app hosted in the Web Browser control and manually or via code switch the registry values to use a different version of IE. Andrew Duthie June 23, This was just what I needed. Putting together something for a demo, and your post just saved me a ton of work. Richard September 14, There should at least be a property we can set to enable this, without having to elevate and hack the HKLM hive of the registry!

As for having multiple settings for the same exe name, what if two vendors produce applications with the same executable name?

Vendor A wants their “helper. With the current system, there’s no way to have both applications working on the same PC at the same time. Role September 15, Rick Strahl September 16, Anything in the HTML document is too late to switch engines. Then there’s the issue of what’s actually installed on the the machine.

Obviously you can’t render IE 9 style if IE 9 isn’t installed ;-. That’s good to know. Incidentally I’ve had a heck of a time trying to automate the new Range API even knowing that it’s different. It breaks inconsistently and causes all sorts of headaches. Will give the old API a shot and see if that helps. Richard September 19, You can even use the developer tools to switch the browser and document modes on the fly.

All I’m saying is, we should be able to have this level of functionality within our own applications, without having to hack the registry. As it stands, Chromium is looking like the better option. Rick Strahl September 19, But it is what it is – AFAIK this is the only way to get later than IE 7 behavior in the Web Browser control and while it’s an ugly, ugly hack to have to resort to the registry its something that can be easily enough handled by an installer.

If there’s another way I’d love to know about it. I would love to make this user selectable with a switch so they can determine what they see!

Especially given IE 9’s mungled ClearType only rendering that can’t be turned off and which drives me nuts and is the main reason I don’t use IE 9.

Bernard Bout October 21, Anil October 22, Its worked by adding my application name vfp9. Any specific reason? Rick Strahl October 22, There’s some overhead in the ActiveX container as it has to fire events into the container – if FoxPro code runs in response to anything in the DOM it’ll likely slow the browser down quite a bit. Why would there be errors in IE9 or IE7?

It sounds like IE is actually rendering in the right version, but the pages you’re accessing are maybe generating errors? Make sure you set both 32 bit and 64 bit keys if you’re running on Windows 7 so settings apply to both versions of IE if you install the 64 bit version often the 32 bit version runs anyway especially via COM automation.

Also remember that VFP9. For your own app you have to add another key for the actual EXE name in the registry. Anil October 23, LambertWM November 13, I also appreciate your remark about not forgetting the to add a key for “yourapp. SebH December 29, But what about if using a dll instead of a. What value should have then key? Rick Strahl December 29, SebH December 30, So there’s no way for me : I’m using a.

IE6 websnapshots from Tonec If one day i find how to, i’ll post the answer there ;. AshB January 10, Your post has saved me a lot of pain. Phillip February 02, I can’t tell you how many hours and days i have researched and tried all sorts of things to get the webbrowser ctrl out of ie7 mode.

Serveral posts I’ve seen hinted to it, but I couldn’t find the answer anywhere. You totally blew me away when i found this post. I use the webbrowser for Editing and display extensively in my app for users to create markup which gets inserted in emails or web page content. The ie7 code with all caps tags, invalidated xhtml. Again, Thanks a ton Rick for posting this, and writing it so clearly too!

Your posts are golden. That solved the createRange issue. This is important for me, since it allows users to specify the default value of an input element in wysiwyg mode. It appears that the rightmose side of the document’s content always goes underneath the Vertical scrollbar. This happens no matter how wide your control or content is.

It seems to be a bug in the control. It’s not recognizing the bounds of the vertical scrollbar. This does not happen in ie7 mode. The right-most side of the block element will always display underneath the vertical scroll bar, no matter what you do. If anyone is able to resolve this, please reply. TIA if anyone can shed light on this probable bug. If I resize a block element Div, Input, etc by dragging the handles of one dimension width or height , it “always” increases the other dimension also.

I can’t figure why. It does not matter if I have the registry hack for vfp9. Simply the Doctype seems to be causing this.

If I remove the Doctype declaration it doesn’t have this issue but of course reverts back to ugly html. I guess the WB control is problematic for editing when specifying a Doctype, regardless if the hack is set for ie9 or not. Anyone else expreriencing this. Bryan February 15, Because of you, I was able to solve a client problem within 15 minutes and the customer was happy. Rick – you da man! Thank you for posting this!

David February 19, I have a 64 bit Windows 7 machine that does not have the “WowNode” key, so I used the 32bit path and it worked like a charm. Could there be something else that is causing you to use the “WowNode” key?

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