Your home page is the page which initially displays when you start your web browser such as Internet Explorer. Sometimes when you are installing something it gets changed to something you don’t prefer, or perhaps it is the one that came with the PC. You have the ability to change it.

To change your home page in Internet Explorer, go to Tools on the menu bar in Internet Explorer. Choose Internet Options at the bottom of the list. In the box at the top that is labeled Home Page you will type the web address of the page you want as your home page. For instance I use www.dwightwatt.com, and many people put either www.google.com or www.yahoo.com there. If you are currently showing the page you want as your home page you can just click the Use Current button and it will put the address there automatically. The Use Blank button will give you a blank home page. Click OK to close the box.

The next time you start Internet Explorer you will now see the new home page. If while browsing the internet you ever want to go back to your home page, the short cut is the home button which looks like a house.

Send your questions to Dwight Watt at dwight@dwightwatt.com. He teaches at a technical college in northwest Georgia and does consulting work for businesses and individuals. His website is dwightwatt.com.