Monthly Archives: June 2012

IE9 bookmarks are not searched in address bar

Internet Explorer, Windows Search

Address bar in IE9 displays history and favorites results while you are typing by default. IE9 uses Windows Search to improve the results and also to shorten time necessary to get them. So the reason why favorites might not be displayed is because Favorites folder is not indexed. There are two solutions to fix this situation:

Disable use of Windows Search for these results. Go to Tools > Internet Options > Content tab > AutoComplete Settings button and unclick Use Windows Search for better results.

The second and better solution is to add Favorites to the Windows Search index locations. Go to Start and type Indexing Options, click on the Modify button and select Favorites folder under your Windows profile folder.

Diablo on Widows Vista / 7

Diablo, Windows 7

If you would like to play this old but legendary game on new versions of Windows you may face some problems.

  1. The first problem is that on the start or during play, colors may get corrupted like on the picture above. But the solution is quite easy, just open the Screen Resolution dialog using context menu on Desktop and leave the dialog opened before you start the game 🙂
  2. IPX is not available since Windows Vista, so multiplayer on LAN does not work. But there is a IPXWrapper library which will wrap communication over UDP protocol. Just download it and copy all dll files from the package to the Diablo installation folder.
  3. Do not forget to use the latest patch available.