Changing Your Home Page

Each time you open a new instance of Internet Explorer without specifying a target Web page, the browser window opens and displays your home page. This is generally the main page of a site to which you often refer, such as MSN for general information, your company's home page for internal news, or a financial Web site for tracking your investments. If you prefer, you can select a blank (Internet Explorergenerated) page as your home page and display a specific Web site only when you choose to visit one.

In this exercise, you will change your home page, add a second home page, and then set a blank home page. There are no practice files for this exercise.

1.	On the Start menu, click Internet. Troubleshooting If Internet Explorer is not your default browser, point to All Programs on the Start menu, and then click Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer starts, displaying your current home page on the default tab. When you purchase a new computer or upgrade your operating system, the computer or software manufacturer usually sets your home page as part of that process.
2.	Replace the URL in the Address box with http://www.microsoft.com, and then press . The Microsoft home page replaces your default home page on the current tab.
3.	On the Command bar, click the Home arrow, and then in the list, click Add or Change Home Page. Home The Add Or Change Home Page dialog box opens, displaying the current URL.
4.	In the dialog box, select the Use this webpage as your only home page option, and then click Yes.
5.	Close the browser window. Then on the Quick Launch toolbar, click the Launch Internet Explorer Browser button. Launch Internet Explorer Browser Internet Explorer restarts, displaying the Microsoft Web site home page as your default home page.
6.	In the Address box, replace microsoft with msn, and then press . The MSN home page opens on the current tab.
7.	In the Home list, click Add or Change Home Page. Then in the dialog box, select the Add this webpage to your home page tabs option, and click Yes.
8.	Click the Home button. Internet Explorer displays the two home pages you have set, on separate tabs.
9.	In the Home list, point to Remove, and then click Remove All. Then in the Delete Home Page dialog box, click Yes.
10.	Click the Home button. Internet Explorer displays your blank home page.