Change settings in Internet Explorer

[AGP]

Hi,
Could anyone tell me whether it is possible to programatically change some of the settings in Internet Explorer. The settings I wish to change are:

- automatically connect to Internet
- disconnect after 5 minutes

If it is possible I am guessing you would use the MS WebBrowser Control??? Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Alt255]

Your program will have to modify the registry to adjust those settings. For the current user, the key is:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
You will work in the corresponding HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key to set the values globally.

The value names are:
AutoConnect
DisconnectIdleTime
EnableAutodial
EnableAutodisconnect


You can find tips for writing registry values elsewhere in the Tek-Tips VB forums.

Have fun. Don't hurt anybody.

 

[AGP]

Hi,
thankyou for replying to my question. It gave me a good place to start from and I successfully managed to set the AutoConnect, EnableAutodial and EnableAutodisconnect properties. I am having a few problems with the DisconnectIdleTime property as this seems to only accept a binary value e.g 05 00 00 00. There seems to be no documentation on how to set a binary value using visual basic!

You mentioned that I should use the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key to set the value globally i.e so it applies to all users. However, when I tried this under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE if failed to initiate the autoconnect feature?

many thanks once again.

 

[Alt255]

All of the preceeding settings are in binary format.

You would use

Private Const REG_BINARY = 3

and then something like

:
retval = RegSetValueEx(keyhandle, strValue, 0, REG_BINARY, binData, Len(binData))

...to set the value.

AutoConnect should work in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings key.... but I only tested it on one machine (Win98). Are you dealing with OS or machine-specific issues?