Windows 7 / Getting Started

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Creating multiple home page tabs

You can create multiple default home pages that all open automatically as soon as you start your Web browser. They're called home page tabs and are easy to set up. First click the empty tab. You see a blank page. Use the address bar to browse to the page that you want to use as the default home page for that tab. Then click the Home button and choose Add or Change Home Page → Add This Webpage to your home page tabs → Yes.

You can have as many home page tabs as you wish. But keep in mind that the more you have, the longer it will take for Internet Explorer to start. You don't want to use home page tabs as a substitute for Favorites. Limit them to perhaps the three or four Web sites you visit most often. If you get carried away, you can always remove a home page tab. Click the Home button, choose Remove, click the page you want to remove, and click Yes.

When you have all the default home pages you want open, each in its own tab, click the Home button, choose Add or Change Home Page, click Use the Current Tab Set As Your Home Page, and click Yes.

Tip If you are a fast typist, choose Tools → Internet Options, and on the General tab, click in the Home Page text box and type the addresses of the pages you want to add as your default page tabs, one to a line. Then click OK.

To test your multiple home pages, close Internet Explorer. Then reopen it. All the home pages should open, each in its own tab. No matter where you happen to be in Internet Explorer, you can always get back to any one of your default home pages. Just click the arrow on the Page button and click the page you want to jump to.

Tip To browse without changing the contents of any tab, click the new, empty tab before entering an address. Or right-click a link in an existing tabbed page and choose Open in New Tab.