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Changing the Web browser Home Page.

Displaying or hiding images on a Web page.

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To give the student some of the concepts of Internet Options .

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

Change the Explorer home page. Display or hide images on a Web page.

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To change your Explorer home page

Your Explorer home page is the page that appears every time you open Internet Explorer.

If there is one page to visit most, you can make it your home page so that it appears every time you start Internet Explorer or click the Home button on the toolbar.

1 - Go to the page you want to appear when you start Internet Explorer such as the www.moe.gov.eg

2- On the Tools menu, click Internet Options.

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3- Click the General tab.

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4- Under Home page, click Use Current button.

Click on the OK button to close the dialog box .

Discuss with your group the following:

1- Reopen the browser.

- The URL of the Home page of the internet Explorer is …………………………………………………

2-Click on the Home button in the tool bar

- The URL of Home page of the Internet Explorer is ………………………………….

……………………………………………………

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To turn off graphics to display all Web pages faster

By default Microsoft Internet Explorer will automatically display any images within a Web page. You may choose to turn this feature off to speed the loading of Web pages.

On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer,

1. click Internet Options.

2. Click the Advanced tab.

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3- Scroll down until you see Multimedia, clear

the Show pictures check box

Clear the Show

pictures check box

4. Removing the tick next to this option will mean that the browser will load pages, but not display any pictures that might be included within the pages.

Click on the OK button to close the dialog box.

You may have to close and then re-start your browser to see the effect of this change.

What do you see on the browser? ……………………………………………………. …………………………………………………….

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a rectangular box will be displayed in place of

pictures.

When you use this option a rectangular box will be displayed in place of pictures when viewing Web sites.

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Discuss with your group how do you display images again in the browser?

“To display images again in the browser “

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Make the home page browser the web page of

http://www.sis.gov.eg

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1- To restore your original home page, click Use

Default button. 2- If you wish to start the program with a blank page,

click on Use Blank button.

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4- If you wish to use another starting page,

enter the full URL into the Address box. Click on the OK button to close the Internet Options dialog box.

5-If the pictures on the current page are still visible after you clear the Show pictures check box, you can clear Play animations, Play videos, or Play sounds check boxes.