Absolutely not. Versoworks is vehemently against malware in all of its forms. Speckie has also been independently tested by
Softpedia and recieved a 100% CLEAN award.
The name is a combination of parts of the words Spell Check for Internet Explorer.
No. In fact, if you look at IE's Manage Add-ons section, you'll see Speckie has an average start-up time of 5ms or less !
Speckie is written in the C++ programming language. It uses the ATL library as recommended by Microsoft when creating add-ons for IE.
Speckie uses the Hunspell library. Hunspell is used in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Mac OS X.
By design, IE does not load toolbars or extensions like Speckie on pinned sites for security reasons.
The dictionaries used by Speckie are created by Google and others and are freely usable by third parties like us. If there's a language we're missing, contact us and we'll look at the possibility of adding it.
To use Speckie, you need to first ensure your computer meets the requirements listed on the Download page.
Once you've confirmed the requirements, you can decide which installer to download.
The Full installer is the recommended choice as it includes both the 32 and 64 bit versions of Speckie and will install the appropriate versions depending on your computer's configuration. The individual MSI packages are designed for advanced network installations and are strictly for commerciallay licenced users.
Once you've decided on the right installer for your computer, click the download link. You'll be prompted by your web browser to either open or save the file. If you select to open the installer, it will execute the installer as soon as the download completes. If you select to save the installer, you'll have to remeber the location where you save it and then manually execute it. Once the installer is executed it should complete without errors. If the installer does produce an error, please contact us.
Once installion completes, start an instance of Internet Explorer. It should prompt you to enable Speckie. If it does, select the Enable button. If you don't receive a prompt, you'll have to enable Speckie manually. In Internet Explorer, under the Tools menu, select the Manage add-ons menu item. In the appearing window, find Speckie in the list of add-ons, select it, then click the Enable button. Once Speckie is enabled, it will function in new windows/tabs only, not any existing windows/tabs.
To test Speckie, navigate Internet Explorer to a web page with a multi line edit field, like our contact page and begin typing in it. You should see any misspelled words underlined with a red wave. Right click on any underlined word for spelling corrections.
To configure Speckie, you'll need to access the Speckie Settings. You can access the Settings via the main Tools menu in Internet Explorer, via the the context menu of an edit field or by navigating Internet Explorer to about:Speckie.
The Full installer is the recommended choice as it includes both the 32 and 64 bit versions of Speckie and will install the appropriate versions depending on your computer's configuration. The individual MSI packages are designed for advanced network installations and are strictly for commerciallay licenced users.
Once you've decided on the right installer for your computer, click the download link. You'll be prompted by your web browser to either open or save the file. If you select to open the installer, it will execute the installer as soon as the download completes. If you select to save the installer, you'll have to remeber the location where you save it and then manually execute it. Once the installer is executed it should complete without errors. If the installer does produce an error, please contact us.
Once installion completes, start an instance of Internet Explorer. It should prompt you to enable Speckie. If it does, select the Enable button. If you don't receive a prompt, you'll have to enable Speckie manually. In Internet Explorer, under the Tools menu, select the Manage add-ons menu item. In the appearing window, find Speckie in the list of add-ons, select it, then click the Enable button. Once Speckie is enabled, it will function in new windows/tabs only, not any existing windows/tabs.
To test Speckie, navigate Internet Explorer to a web page with a multi line edit field, like our contact page and begin typing in it. You should see any misspelled words underlined with a red wave. Right click on any underlined word for spelling corrections.
To configure Speckie, you'll need to access the Speckie Settings. You can access the Settings via the main Tools menu in Internet Explorer, via the the context menu of an edit field or by navigating Internet Explorer to about:Speckie.
Configuration the Speckie context menu items requires modification to the Windows Registry. We recommend only advanced users attempt this action. Incorrect
modifications of the Windows Registry can cause system wide faults. The Speckie menu configuration value is located in the following registry key;
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AppDataLow\Software\Versoworks\Speckie\ConfigMenu. The ConfigMenu value is of type REG_SZ and the default value is as follows;
spsuggestions,spignoreall,spaddtodic,spsep,edititems,spsep,spcheckspelling,spsettings
The comma deliminated list specifies the various Speckie menu items along with the default text editing items. The position of an item in the list defines its position in the menu. 'spsep' defines a horizontal seperator, 'edititems' defines the default text editing items while the others should be self explanatory. You can also omit a Speckie specific menu item by omitting it from the list. Changes made to the registry value are reflected in new tabs/windows only.
spsuggestions,spignoreall,spaddtodic,spsep,edititems,spsep,spcheckspelling,spsettings
The comma deliminated list specifies the various Speckie menu items along with the default text editing items. The position of an item in the list defines its position in the menu. 'spsep' defines a horizontal seperator, 'edititems' defines the default text editing items while the others should be self explanatory. You can also omit a Speckie specific menu item by omitting it from the list. Changes made to the registry value are reflected in new tabs/windows only.
This is due to Speckie rechecking the field whenever the editor makes a change. It generally occurs with WYSIWYG editors or if a site is being viewed in compatibility mode.
To work around the issue, go in to the Speckie settings and set the Spell Check Mode option to Passive. Click the Apply button at the bottom of the Settings page to complete the task.
