I want to set Internet Explorer so that when I start it up, it always
goes to a webpage other than the default startup page. How can I change
the “startup page” or “home page” in Internet Explorer?
Microsoft Internet Explorer, which comes pre-installed in all versions of
Microsoft Windows, is pre-configured to go to a specific page each time it
starts up. If you bought your computer from a manufacter like Hewlett-Packard,
they may have set Internet Explorer on all their computers to go to the Hewlett-Packard
home page, for example. You probably do not consider the Hewlett-Packard website
to be the most interesting page in the world, so you want to know how to change
Internet Explorer settings so that it will go to a different home page
each time it starts up.
These instructions describe how to change your home page. (Minor point of terminology
for newbies: Internet Explorer uses the term “home page” to refer to the page that
Internet Explorer goes to each time you start it up. Elsewhere, the term “home page” is also
used to describe a web page that someone makes about themselves, describing who they
are and listing their hobbies and interests, although those types of home pages
actually tended to go out of style with the rise of Myspace and Facebook profiles in
the 2000’s. Still, if someone asks you “Do you have a home page?”, they mean “Do you
have a webpage somewhere on the Internet that tells people about yourself?”, not
“Does your browser go to a specific address each time you start it up?” 🙂 )
To set your home page, first open Internet Explorer and go to the page that you want
to set as your home page, for example http://www.yahoo.com/.
Then, go to the “Tools” menu in Internet Explorer, and pick “Internet Options”:
(By the
way, if you’re using Windows Vista, you might not see the familiar “File”, “Edit”, “View”,
etc. menu options across the top of the window any more. To bring the menu options back,
read How to restore your menu options in Vista’s Internet Explorer)
You should then be seeing the Internet Options dialog box:
In the first tab of the Internet Options dialog box, you’ll see a space at the top labeled
“Home page”. The web address displayed in this space, is your existing home page — the
page that your browser is set to go to whenever you launch it. To change your home page
to the page that’s currently displayed in the web browser, click the “Use current” button.
You’ll see the web address in the box, change to the web address of the currently displayed
web page:
Then click “OK” at the bottom of the dialog box to save your changes. Now, whenever
you open Internet Explorer, it will go directly to the page that you saved as your new
home page.
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i can not chage home page of internet explorer as mentioned by you
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I have tried this but the home page box is greyed out it cannot be changed, what can i do???