Question: I updated to IE8 the other day on my Vista laptop, mostly because Windows Update kept bugging me about it. As a Chrome user, I don't really care so much about IE8, but I do have to use it occaisionally to test website compatibility.

At any rate, flash seems to be completely deactivated, and I don't see a place to re-enable it anywhere in the preferences. I've done a bit of googling on the issue, but only found information about how to disable flash, not how to actually enable it.

I have the flash 10 debug player installed, and it works fine with Chrome and Firefox. What could be the matter?

Answer: 
If your browser of choice supports being able to edit the quick search bars, you can edit or add in the searches with the following:

```
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%s+-site:experts-exchange.com

```

That way you'd be able to use the browser search bar/helper and not have to remind yourself that you want nothing to do with that site other than to not see it in your results.

You can tweak it for any other number of sites, just remembering to add it into the address line, like:

```
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%s+-site:example.com+-site:example.org

```
You do know that the answers there are always and forever visible in plain text if you scroll all the way to the bottom of the page?