Windows 7 / Getting Started

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Managing Favorite Sites

Getting back to favorite Web sites by retyping the URL each time gets tiresome. Fortunately, it's also unnecessary because you can get to any favorite site with a simple mouse click. You just have to remember to add the site to your Favorites while you're there. That's easy to do:

1. If you're not already at a favorite Web site or page, browse to one.
2. Do any of the following to add the page to your Favorites:
   • Click the Favorites button and choose Add to Favorites.
   • Right-click some empty white space on the page and choose Add to Favorites.
   • Choose Favorites → Add to Favorites from Internet Explorer's menu.
   Tip You can create folders, rename folders, change page titles, and organize favorites into folders at any time. So feel free to skip all the optional steps that follow.
3. Optionally, if you want to type your own descriptive title for the page, replace the text shown in the Name box with your own name.
4. Optionally, if you've already set up custom Favorites folders, click the Create In button and choose the folder in which you want to place the favorite.
5. Optionally, to create a new Favorites folder, click New Folder, type the new folder name, and click Create.
6. Click Add.

The Web site's title is added to your Favorites menu and the Favorites Center. To return to the site at any time in the future, choose Favorites from the menu and click the Web site's title. Or click the Favorites Center button (star) and click the site's title there.

Tip To create a desktop shortcut to the page you're currently viewing, choose File → Send → Shortcut to Desktop from Internet Explorer's menu. To e-mail a link or Web Page to someone, click File → Send and then choose Page by E-mail (to send the page itself) or Link by E-mail (to send a link to the page).