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16-46 Chapter 16 Configuring Security Settings and Internet Options
Lesson 6: Configuring Internet Explorer Options
There are a number of options that you can configure in Internet Explorer, some of
which deal with security, others of which deal with privacy, content, and how Internet
Explorer connects to the Internet. You will configure these options using the Internet
Options dialog box, which you can access in one of two ways:
■ In the Control Panel window, click Network And Internet Connections. In the Network
And Internet Connections window, click Internet Options. This method
allows you to configure Internet Explorer options without running Internet
Explorer.
■ While Internet Explorer is running, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
After this lesson, you will be able to
■ Configure Internet Explorer general options.
■ Configure Internet Explorer security options.
■ Configure Internet Explorer privacy options.
■ Configure Internet Explorer content options.
■ Configure Internet Explorer connection options.
■ Configure Internet Explorer programs options.
■ Configure Internet Explorer advanced options.
Estimated lesson time: 40 minutes
General Options
The General tab of the Internet Properties dialog box, shown in Figure 16-15, allows
you to configure the following:
■ The home page that Internet Explorer opens when you start the program. This is
also the page you are returned to each time you click the Home icon on the toolbar.
■ How Internet Explorer stores temporary files during browsing sessions. Internet
Explorer automatically stores (or caches) copies of Web pages that you access to
a folder on the local hard disk. These copies are called temporary Internet files.
The next time you access the same page, Internet Explorer can load the page from
the local cache rather than having to connect to the Web server and download it
again. You can delete temporary Internet files by clicking the Delete Files button
on the General tab of the Internet Options dialog box. You might want to delete
temporary Internet files to make it more difficult for other users of the same computer
to identify the Web sites you visited.