Disabling offline mode in Internet Explorer

Offline mode allows you to view previously visited web pages without an internet connection. But it interferes, for example, with normal communication on social networks and watching videos online. There are several ways to exit this browser mode.

Why you need offline mode

Despite the cheapness and availability of the Internet everywhere, it may not be at hand at the right time. With offline mode, you can view your recently visited pages offline if you've previously accessed them from this computer.

In offline mode, you can open far from all pages - that's how lucky you are.

Ways to turn off offline mode in Internet Explorer

You can disable offline mode through the settings of the application itself and through the Windows registry.

Disabling offline mode through the browser

For different versions of Internet Explorer, the instructions are slightly different.

Select File, then Work Offline. In IE 9, call up the menu by pressing F10, click the "File" item, and then the "Work Offline" item

The context menu with the "Work Offline" command can also be called by Alt+F.

In the 11th version of Internet Explorer, Microsoft developers have removed the ability to enable and disable offline mode. However, it may start automatically. To disable, you just need to reset your browser settings.

In the Internet Explorer 11 window, click on the "Tools" gear and select "Internet Options".
Clicking on the gear in the upper right corner will open a drop-down menu with the item "Internet Options"

The browser settings window will open - go to the "Advanced" tab and click the reset button. The "Reset" button will return the settings of IE 11 to their original ones, thereby disabling offline mode as well

The order of these actions has not changed for many years since the release of Internet Explorer 6 as part of Windows XP and is used if the application stopped displaying the pages of the sites called on a perfectly healthy connection.

Through the registry

Microsoft has placed the settings of its "native" browser in a specific subfolder of the registry, which is easy to find. The GlobalUserOffline key speaks for itself - this is the offline setting of Internet Explorer.

Go to the start menu and type regedit in the search bar.
"Registry Editor" is a repository of settings and system settings

The Windows application of the same name will launch - "Registry Editor". Get to the HKEY+CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings folder - it contains the GlobalUserOffline parameter. This is the "General Internet Explorer Offline Settings".
Double click on a parameter to edit its value

Change the value of the GlobalUserOffline parameter to zero and confirm the changes by pressing the OK button.
To reset the GlobalUserOffline parameter, enter one zero

Regedit is an abbreviation for the English registry editor, which translates as "registry editor".

How to Manage Offline Mode in Internet Explorer

Using Offline Web Browsing in the HandyCache App

HandyCache intelligently organizes a disk cache, which increases the likelihood of opening a web page offline.

"Windows Firewall" will ask if you need to block the application - click the "Unblock" button.
Do not allow "Windows Firewall" to block HandyCache

In the HandyCache settings, check the boxes "Run at system startup" and "Allow loading only one instance of the program."

Customize the application to your taste, but do not forget to check the boxes from step 4 of the instructions

On the Connections tab of the Internet Explorer Options menu, set the proxy address to 127.0.0.1 and port 8080. These steps are the same for all versions of Windows. Save your settings. The "Proxy Server" section will become active if you check the flag marked in the screenshot

Offline mode is enabled and disabled directly in the Internet Explorer settings or through the Windows registry. Disabling in IE 11 requires a browser reset. For offline web surfing, you can use the HandyCache utility.