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Changing your home page

Here's a shortcut to your favorite site. Your browser (the window you're staring at right now) always opens to what's called your "default home page". The party poopers over at Netscape and Microsoft design browsers to open to their humdrum corporate home pages (sheesh!). But you can fix that in a snap!

(Hint: You might want to print this page first.)

Using Netscape

1. Find the Menu Bar that runs across the top of the Netscape window.
2. Under the "Options Menu", select "General Preferences". A dialog box with several options will come up: "Browser Starts With" is the one you're after.
3. The URL currently in the "Home Page Location" box -- http://home.netscape.com -- is the Netscape home page. Enter the URL of your favorite web site (mine is http://www.bguide.com). Click the OK button to save your change and exit Preferences. That's all there is to it!

Using Microsoft Internet Explorer

1. Access the site that you want to use for your new home page (for example Beatrice's Web Guide at http://www.bguide.com).
2. Go to the Internet Explorer View menu at the top of the window, and choose "Options".
3. In the Navigation dialog box, choose the "Start Page".
4. Look for the "Address" text box.
5. Click on the "Use Current" button and the URL will appear in the "Address" box.
6. Click OK, and you're done!

Psst... If you're looking for a more serious browser makeover, check out your font options, font sizes and link colors. Experiment. Browsers don't break, and you can undo anything.

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