Adding and changing home pages to Windows 7 Internet Explorer 8

Windows 7 contains Internet Explorer 8 which gives you the facility to browse Web pages anywhere on the Internet. This latest version of the Microsoft Internet browser has all the new and greatest features for helping you find, visit and retrieve any information on Internet that might interest you.

To launch Internet Explorer 8 in Windows 7, all you need to do is click the IE8 icon on the desktop or click the Internet Explorer Quick Launch button on the Windows 7 taskbar. You can also Internet Explorer 8 from the 'Start' menu. Now you type the Website's address which is also known as URL in the address bar of the IE8 window then press Enter.

When you click the Home button in Internet Explorer 8 which is the button sporting an image of a small house then the browser opens the Web page that is listed as the home page. Home page is the start page which the browser goes to each time you launch it. Now if you want to change this home page then navigate to the Web page you want to use as your new home page and click the drop-down button attached to the Home button. Now choose Add or Change Home Page from the button’s drop-down menu. Choosing this option opens the Add or Change Home Page dialog box. Now before you click the Yes button to close this dialog box you need to click the 'Use This Webpage as Your Only Home Page' option.

You can have more than one Web page designated as a home page In Internet Explorer 8 and therefore assigned to the additional home page tabs. Now, if you want to add another Web page as a home page to the IE8 then open the Website's page that you want to add as a home page in Windows 7 Internet Explorer 8 and click the 'Add This Webpage to Your Home Page' option in the 'Add or Change Home Page' dialog box and click 'Yes'.

Now let us take an example that you want to add Google home page to the Internet Explorer 8. When the Google page is displayed then click the 'Add This Webpage to Your Home Page' option button, whenever you launch the Internet Explorer 8, it will automatically display both the MSN.com and Google page in different tabs.

In this way you can have a quick look at the latest gossip and news on both the websites before switching to the Google tab to perform the next Web search. After creating an additional home page, Internet Explorer 8 then adds a tab for this additional home page when you next click the Home button and it automatically appears to the right side of the first home tab every time you open this Internet browser. Now you ca easily open one of the home pages by clicking its tab or selecting the page with the Quick Tabs button.

Now if you want to remove any of the home page and its tab from Internet Explorer 8 then you have to first choose 'Remove from the Home' button’s drop-down menu and then from the submenu, click the page to remove Home Page, Home Page (2), Home Page (3) and so on. Now click 'Yes' in the 'Delete Home Page' dialog box to confirm the removal of the page.