How to Change Your Internet Explorer Home Page

Your Internet Explorer home page is the page that is displayed when you first open Internet Explorer or when you click the “Home” button. You can save any web page as your Internet Explorer home page. These steps will show you how to change your Internet Explorer home page.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Computer using Internet Explorer

1. Open Internet Explorer by clicking the "Internet Explorer" icon on your desktop. Alternatively, you can click the “Start” button, clicking “Programs” or “All Programs,” and choosing "Internet Explorer" from the list of installed programs. Or maximize an existing Internet Explorer window.
2. Click “Tools” on the toolbar, and then click “Internet Options.” The “Internet Options” dialog box will open. Make sure you are on the “General” tab.
3. If the web page you want to set as your Internet Explorer homepage is currently open, click the “Use Current” button under “Home Page.”
4. If you want to set a web page other than the one you are currently viewing as your home page, type the URL of that page into the box in the “Home Page” section.
5. To set a group of web pages as your home pages, enter each URL into the box in the “Home Page” section. Be sure to enter each site on its own line. By doing this, when you start Internet Explorer or click the “Home” button, a window with tabs showing each of these web pages will open.
6. To go back to the original web page that was set as your home page when Internet Explorer was first installed, click the “Use Default” button.
7. To have a blank page when you open Internet Explorer, click the “Use Blank” button. When you are finished, Click “Apply” and “OK.”