Internet Explorer Issues

Internet Explorer Topics
Setting The Browser Home Page
Deleting Temporary Internet Files
Adding Trusted Sites

Setting the browser home page
When Internet Explorer is first opened, the page that is loaded is called the "Home Page". In some cases disreputable websites will automatically set your browser home page to their site so that every time the browser is opened it automatically loads their content. In order to reset the home page, type the URL to the page to be set as the new home page


Navigate to "Tools -> Internet Options"


From the "General" tab select the "Use Current"button and then select the "OK" button

*Deleting Browser History*
For users that do a lot of internet surfing one of the largest hogs of disk space are the "Temporary internet files" and most users never think to remove these files which could be obsolete or no longer necessary. Another good reason to remove these files is if the computer is shared by multiple users as these files could be accessible to anyone using the computer. In some rare cases, an intruder could hack into the computer and possibly retrieve valuable information from these temporary files. There are several ways to remove these files but here are the two most common.
Method 1
To manually remove the "Temporary internet files" navigate to "Tools -> Internet Options"


From the "General" in the "Browsing history" section select the "Delete..." button


This will drive up another dialog where the type of delete can be selected. For this eaxmple the "Delete all..." is used


To be completely secure, when the next dialog appears select "Also delete..." checkbox and then select the "Yes" button


Then select the "OK" button from the "Internet Options" dialog

Method 2
The second method will delete the "Temporary internet files" each time the browser is closed but this method doesn't delete everything, only cached webpages. Navigate to "Tools -> Internet Options"


From the "Advanced" tab scroll down under "Settings" to the "Security" section, select the "Empty Temprorary Internet Files..." checkbox, and then select the "OK" button. Now each time the browser is closed the temporary files will be automatically deleted.

Adding Trusted Sites
Many websites attempt to download information to the users computer to help with the browsing experience. On the downside, unscrupulous websites use these functions to wreak havoc with the users computer by placing viruses, bugs or, worse case scenario, steal information from the users computer. By default, when a page wants to download files the browser will prompt the user on how they wish to proceed. This can become tiresome to the user when they visit a site that they trust and continually have to answer these prompts. The following details how to add a site as trusted so the user will no longer be prompted when visiting that particular site.

While the site in question is in listed in the browser


Navigate to "Tools -> Internet Options"


From the "Security" tab select "Trusted Sites" and then select the "Sites" button


Select the "Add" button


Select the "Close" button


Then select the "OK" button. From this point forward, when you visit this site, you will not be repeatedly asked whether or not you trust its downloading.

Site updated 9 February, 2009

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