Dec 30
2007Getting Started With Internet Explorer
Filed Under (Windows Xp) by Admin on 30-12-2007
Tagged Under : Add to Favorites, Bookmarks, Creating a bookmark, Favorites, Firefox, Google, History, IE, internet explorer, Internet Options, Mozilla Firefox, Organizing your bookmarks, Saving Pages And Images, Universal Resource Locater, URL, Viewing and using bookmarks
There are a number of ways to launch Internet Explorer. The easiest is to double-click the icon on your desktop. This icon looks like the letter “e” with a ring around it. If don’t have this icon on your desktop, you can launch Internet Explorer by going to Start > Programs, and then clicking on ‘Internet Explorer’ on the menu that pops up.
When the program starts, it will automatically go to the home page (provided you are connected to the Internet) that has been set in the options. To go to a Web page of your choice, you need to type its address or URL (Universal Resource Locater) into the address bar near the top and click ‘Go’ (or press [Enter] on your keyboard). The URL for each Web page is unique. For example, typing “http://www.google.com” will take you to Google Search Engine Web site.
You can also choose from a list of URLs you’ve previously typed by pulling down the menu on the right of the Address field. Another way to visit a different page is to click on a hyper link. A hyper link contains the address (URL) of the page you want to see. By default, a blue link represents a page you haven’t viewed yet, and a purple link represents one that you have. Links appear as graphics or sometimes as underlined text.
To tell whether something is a link, move your mouse pointer over it. If the pointer changes into a “hand,” you’ve found a link. Click on it, and you’ll be taken to a different page. While a page is loading, the Windows flag icon in the upper right corner will be animated.
A set of buttons on the tool bar lets you navigate through Web pages. The ‘Back’ button takes you to the previous page you visited, the ‘Forward’ button takes you forward a page, the ‘Stop’ button stops the current page from loading, ‘Refresh’ reloads the current page, and the ‘Home’ button takes you to the home page you set. Internet Explorer lets you quickly return to pages you’ve already seen during the current session and previous sessions. To see a history of pages that you’ve visited, click on the ‘History’ button in the tool bar. A window of previous pages (listed according to when you accessed them last) will appear on the left, which you can use to navigate your browsing history.
The status bar at the bottom displays the status of a page as it loads into Internet Explorer.
Bookmarks (Favorites)
Bookmarks provide a permanent and simple way to remember your favorite Web pages.
Saving Pages And Images
Saving an image: To save an image on a Web page, place your mouse pointer over the picture you want to save, then right-click and choose ‘Save Picture As’ from the menu that appears. Browse to a location on your hard drive where you want to save the image, and click ‘Save’.
Saving a Web page and viewing it later: To save a Web page onto your hard drive, go to the Web page that you want to save. From the ‘File’ menu, choose ‘Save As’. You can type a new filename in the ‘File Name’ field, or you can just leave the name as is. In the ‘Save as type’ drop-down menu, you have several choices of how you can save the Web page. The default choice is ‘Web Page, complete’, to save the page along with all its images, and the next-most popular choice is to select ‘Web Page, HTML only’, which saves the page without the images. When you are done, click ‘Save’.
To open the page you saved, launch IE, and go to File > Open. Click ‘Browse’ to find and select the file you want to open. Click ‘Open’ and then click ‘OK’.
Basic Internet Options
Changing your home page: Go to Tools > Internet Options. In the ‘General’ tab, type in the URL of the desired Web page.
Alternatively, you can also choose and click on the three buttons below the address field that set the home page to the current page, default and blank respectively. Click ‘OK’ when you’re done. The chosen Web page will be loaded by default when you launch Internet Explorer. You can also go this page by clicking on the ‘Home’ button in the tool bar.
History Options: You can choose the number of days for which IE will store your history. To do this, go to Tools > Internet Options. Under ‘History’, type in the number of days to keep pages in history, or click on the up or down arrows to choose the desired number. If you wish to clear your history, click the ‘Clear History’ button.
I strongly recommend using Mozilla Firefox. Firefox has many features than Internet Explorer. It has more security and for faster browsing you need to using Mozilla Firefox. It also comes with Google Tool bar.