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Updated on 2025-04-14

IE: The best start page

When you first go to INTERNET, your IE will always be accompanied by the progress bar and slowly crawling like a snail, which is a waste of time. Even if you change the start page, it will not be fast and generally not long. Many friends who are online have this feeling: there are too many URLs and it is difficult to remember. Even if you remember three or two, you have to input them with disk, which is very troublesome. Below I will introduce you to a few ways to make a starting page by yourself. Don’t be afraid. It’s actually very simple. You don’t need a special web editing software, just Word97!

1. Create a web page with a URL or IP address: Open Word97 or word2000, half-width state, arrange the most commonly used URLs. As long as it starts with "www" or "http://", Word will automatically recognize that it is a URL. However, one or two URLs are easy to deal with. If there are too many, for example, there are thirty or fifty ones, it is still difficult to find the URL you need when you look for it. It doesn't matter. You can put the website name in front or behind this URL, and even let the name be displayed with a prominent font or color, so it will be much faster to find. After listing the URL, save this file as HTML file.

2. Create a web page with the website name: Open Word97 or Word2000, arrange the website names you use most frequently. After sorting it out, select a name, click "Insert - Hyperlink" in the menu bar, fill in the corresponding URL in the pop-up dialog box, and cancel the check mark "Use relative paths for hyperlinks" and "OK". In this way, link the website name one by one. Each name can also be used in different fonts or colors to facilitate your search. After completion, the file "Save as HTML" file, which forms a web page that only displays the website name.

3. Make web pages with pictures: Each website has its own logo pictures on the homepage. You can download these pictures, use image editing software to scale them to a certain size, save them in the same directory, and then create a new Word document, insert or paste these pictures in the document, then make a hyperlink to each picture, and finally "Save as HTML" the document file. With this idea, you can also create a more distinctive starting page. Interested friends can try it.

After closing Word, double-click the newly prepared file and IE will open it. This is the time to set it up: find the INTERNET option - General Options Tag - "Use Current Page" - OK (of course you can do it by directly dragging the small icon in the address bar to the small house, which is easier). When you open IE in the future, your starting page will open as fast as possible, and you can enter the website you want to go to as you wish. Don't believe it? Try it online, click any link, wow! ―What should I do if I want to go to another place? Click the small house on the toolbar and your start page will "appear"...

In the future, when you want to add or delete a URL in the start page, right-click the file and "Open with Word" to edit it. The editing method will not be described here. There are three benefits to such a start page: First, it is on your own hard drive, without downloading, and it opens quickly; second, it is all your own commonly used URLs, which are very practical; third, it can add or decrease URLs at any time.