2.
In the Search box, type peace and harmony
As you type, Bing displays suggested search terms matching your input.
3.
Click the Search button, or press Enter.
The search results appear on the current tab of the Internet Explorer window.
4.
Browse the search results, noting that some of the bold terms on the page aren’t
an exact match for the search term.
5.
In the Search box, enclose the search term in quotes and insert a plus sign (+) in
front of the word and so that the search term is
“peace +and harmony”
Then click the Search button or press Enter.
The bold terms in the new search results exactly match the search term. The
Related Searches list on the left suggests other, similar terms.
Refining your search returns a more exact list of results.
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6.
Browse the results and click any link to open that page.
7.
On the Favorites bar, click the Favorites button, and then click Add to Favorites.
The Add A Favorite dialog box opens.
The Add A Favorite dialog box.
8.
In the Add a Favorite dialog box, with the site name selected, type My Peace
and Harmony Page. Then click Add to make the current page available from your

CLEAN UP Close the Internet Explorer window.
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Deleting Saved Information
Internet Explorer saves many types of information so that you don’t need to
remember or re-enter it. If you want to ensure that the saved information is not
available to other computer users (particularly if you’re loaning or selling your
computer to another person), you can delete the saved information.
To clear some or all of your Internet Explorer history:
1. On the Safety menu, click Delete Browsing History.
The Delete Browsing History dialog box.
2. Select the check boxes of the types of information you want to remove.
3. If you want to retain files associated with sites on your Favorites bar and
on the Favorites tab of your Favorites Center, select the Preserve Favorites
Website Data check box.
4. Click Delete.
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Printing Web Pages
While you’re browsing the Web, Internet Explorer makes it easy to print the Web page
you’re viewing, either on paper or to a file. Before printing the page, you can preview
it and adjust settings such as the paper size, the orientation, and the margins.
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To print a Web page by using your default settings, click the Print button on
the Command bar.
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To display a page as it will appear when printed, click Print Preview in the
Print list.

browser window. Recipients using e-mail programs that don’t support active content
can copy the URL and paste it into a browser to display the page.
Troubleshooting These options are available only when working in an e-mail program that
is installed on your computer; not when working in a Web mail program that runs inside an
Internet Explorer window.
If you have a Windows Live Hotmail account, you also have the option of sending the Web
page or link through that account. To do so, click E-mail With Windows Live on the Page
menu. This option opens Windows Live Hotmail on a separate tab of the same Internet
Explorer window. Internet Explorer protects your account from use by other people by
requiring that you first log in to your account.
See Also For information about setting the default e-mail program for Internet services, see
the sidebar “Setting the Default E-Mail Program” in Chapter 8, “Manage Internet Explorer.”
In this exercise, you’ll first send an e-mail message with an embedded Web page, and
then send another message with a link to a Web page.
SET UP You don’t need any practice files to complete this exercise, but you do need
to have an e-mail program installed on your computer, and an account configured in
that program. Start your default e-mail program and log on to your e-mail account if
necessary. Then start Internet Explorer and follow the steps.
1.
Display any Web site in the Internet Explorer window.
2.
On the Command bar, click the Page button.
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The Page menu displays a list of actions you can perform with the current Web page.
Some commands on the Page menu are active only when content is selected.
3.
On the Page menu, click Send Page by E-mail.
An Internet Explorer Security dialog box opens, requesting permission to display
the page content in an e-mail message.
4.

7.
Address the e-mail message to yourself, and then send it. (Or, if you prefer, close
the message window without sending the message.)
CLEAN UP Close the Internet Explorer window.
Key Points
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Accelerators are add-ons to Internet Explorer that let you quickly perform content-
related tasks directly from a Web page.
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You can receive information from Web sites and blogs that interest you by sub-
scribing to their RSS feeds. Web Slices are a type of feed that alert you to updated
information.
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You can search the Web for information by entering general or specific search
terms in the Search box. You may choose whatever search provider you want.
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The Favorites Center keeps track of sites you save, feeds you subscribe to, and your
Internet browsing history.
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Personalize Internet
Explorer 8, page 262
Block pop-up windows,
page 269
Configure Internet security zones, page 273
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Personalizing Internet Explorer 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .262
Changing Your Home Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .262
Changing the Appearance of Web Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .262
Blocking Pop-Up Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .269
Configuring Internet Security Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .273
Restricting Objectionable Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .284
Key Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .291
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As with so many Windows 7 elements, you can personalize Internet Explorer to display
the content you want in the way you want.
See Also For information about displaying and hiding Internet Explorer toolbars, see
“Displaying Web Sites” in Chapter 6, “Connect to the Web.”
Changing Your Home Page
Each time you open a new Internet Explorer window by clicking the Internet Explorer
button or command rather than a link to a specific Web site or page, the browser win-
dow opens and displays your home page. This is usually the main page of a site you visit
often, such as MSN for general information, your company’s home page for internal
news, or a financial Web site for tracking your investments. You can display more than
one home page—for example, if you look at three news sites each morning, you can set
all three as home pages so that they open automatically on three tabs of the browser
window when you start Internet Explorer. Or if you prefer to avoid the distraction of a
commercial site, you can select a blank page as your home page and display a specific
Web site only when you choose to visit one.
Changing the Appearance of Web Content
Some Web sites set the formatting, such as fonts, font sizes, and text and background
colors, used in their pages in order to control the way the site looks on your screen.
Others don’t. In the latter case, you can change the appearance of content displayed

you have explored and those you haven’t, respectively.)
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In the Colors dialog box, you can specify non-standard colors for various Web page
elements.
4. Click the Text, Background, Visited, or Unvisited color button, select the color you
want to use for that element, and then click OK.
5. If you want to highlight links that you point to with a color rather than having only
the standard underlining, select the Use Hover Color check box at the top of the
Colors dialog box, click the Hover color button, and select the color you want. (The
default is red.)
6. In the Colors dialog box, click OK to save and apply your changes.
To change the font, font size, text colors, and background color of all Web pages (even
Web pages that specify those elements):
1. Complete the previous steps to change the text size and font, and to set the text,
background, hyperlink, and hover colors.
2. On the General tab of the Internet Options dialog box, in the Appearance area,
click Accessibility.
The Accessibility dialog box opens.
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In the Accessibility dialog box, you can apply non-standard settings to all Web pages.
3. In the Formatting area of the Accessibility dialog box, select the Ignore Colors
Specified On Webpages check box, the Ignore Font Styles Specified On Webpages
check box, and the Ignore Font Sizes Specified On Webpages check box.
Tip If you don’t select these check boxes, Internet Explorer will use the colors and fonts
specified in the Web page code.
4. Click OK to close the dialog box and apply your changes.

prompts you to confirm that you want to close all the tabs.
6.
In the message box, click Close all tabs to close the program window.
7.
On the taskbar, click the pinned Internet Explorer taskbar button.
Internet Explorer restarts and displays only the home page of the Microsoft Web site.
8.
Replace the URL in the Address bar with msn, and then press Ctrl+Enter.
The home page of the MSN site opens on the current tab.
9.
In the Home list, click Add or Change Home Page.
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The Add Or Change Home Page dialog box displays a different set of options.
When only one tab is open, the Add Or Change Home Page dialog box does not include the
option to use the current set of tabs as your home page.
10.
In the Add or Change Home Page dialog box, click Add this webpage to your
home page tabs, and then click Yes.
11.
On the Command bar, click the Home button.
The two home pages you have set are now open on separate tabs.
12.
In the Home list, click Remove, and then click Remove All.
The Delete Home Page dialog box opens.
You don’t have to use a Web site as your home page; you can use a blank page instead.
13.
In the Delete Home Page dialog box, click Yes.
14.
On the Command bar, click the Home button.
Internet Explorer displays a blank page on the current tab, but does not close the

Pop-up windows (or just pop-ups) are secondary Web browser windows that open in
front of (or sometimes behind) the window you’re working in when you display a Web
site or click an advertising link. The content of these windows might be informational—
for example, a new window might open when you click a link for more information or
when you log on to a secure site—or in some cases might be irritating or malicious—for
example, when browsing the Web for information you might come across display a page
that causes several advertisements to pop up behind it. However, pop-ups frequently
display annoying advertisements, adware (fake warning messages containing links to
product sites), spyware (malicious software that can collect personal information from
your computer), or other types of content you did not invite and probably don’t want.
You can use the Internet Explorer Pop-up Blocker to prevent the display of unwanted
pop-ups. The Pop-up Blocker is turned on by default. When a pop-up tries to open, an
audio alert sounds, and the Information bar appears at the top of the Internet Explorer
Content pane, notifying you that a pop-up has been blocked.
Information bar
Site-specific notification
Some sites display a notification when the Information bar appears.
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You can configure pop-up settings for the currently displayed site by clicking the
Information bar and then clicking the option you want.
Click the Information bar to display the site-specific Pop-up Blocker settings.
When a pop-up is blocked, you have the following options:
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You can ignore the Information bar and not display the pop-up.
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You can allow pop-ups from the site you’re displaying, for the duration of the