Setting Your Internet Options

Every piece of software known to man these days comes with a complete set of options. These options, depending on your perspective, either make using the program easier or make it a complex web that is beyond human comprehension. Your call.

Explorer's options are viewable by opening the Tools menu and selecting Internet Options. You'll find a myriad of possibilities here; for our purposes, we'll concentrate on the General and Content tabs.

General Options

On the General tab (see Figure 8.17), you'll find basic options settings, as you might expect. The top panel allows you to select a new home page (the page that appears when you first start Explorer). The Use Blank button opens a blank page, and the Use Current ...

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