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Change your Internet Explorer home page

The information in this Help topic applies to Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Internet Explorer 8.

Your home page is displayed when you first start Internet Explorer, or when you click the Home button Picture of the Home button.

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To set the current webpage as the home page

  1. Open Internet Explorer by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, and then clicking Internet Explorer.

  2. Navigate to the webpage you would like to set as the home page.

  3. Click the arrow to the right of the Home button Picture of the Home button, and then click Add or Change Home Page.

  4. In the Add or Change Home Page dialog box, do one of the following:

    • To make the current webpage your only home page, click Use this webpage as your only home page.

    • To start a home page tab set or to add the current webpage to your set of home page tabs, click Add this webpage to your home page tabs.

    • To replace your existing home page or home page tab set with the webpages you currently have open, click Use the current tab set as your home page. This option will only be available if you have more than one tab open in Internet Explorer.

  5. Click Yes to save your changes.

To reset the home page to the default

  1. Open Internet Explorer by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, and then clicking Internet Explorer.

  2. Click the Tools button, and then click Internet Options.

  3. Click the General tab.

  4. Click Use default to replace your current home page with the one that was used when you first installed Internet Explorer.

  5. Click OK to save your changes.

Note

Note

If you do not want any home page to be opened when Internet Explorer starts, click Use Blank in step 4 above. You might want to have a blank home page if you frequently work offline and are not connected to the Internet when you open Internet Explorer.

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