Internet Options

Click on Start, Settings, Internet Options. This is where almost all tweaks will be made, although you should note that many of the settings shown/listed here are only available in certain versions of Internet Explorer.

Select the General tab.

Home page. In this field you may enter the default website you wish to be loaded whenever you launch IE. You should select a webpage as your homepage, but that doesn’t mean you have to load it every time your start an Internet Explorer window. Using the tweak below you can load Internet Explorer faster & only load your homepage if you wish too.

Right click on your Internet Explorer shortcut & select Properties. Select the Shortcut tab then the Target field. Add the following into the Target field  -nohome, e.g. for most users there Target field will know read as follows;

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" –nohome

Click Apply then Ok.

Temporary Internet Files. Click the Delete Cookies button to delete all cookies from your machine (NOTE – This option is only available in the Internet Explorer Privacy BETA). A cookie is a file created by a Web site that stores personalized information on your computer, such as your identity & preferences when visiting that site.

Selecting Delete Files will delete the contents of your Temporary Internet Files folder (Except for cookies that is). Now select the Settings button.

Ensure you have Every visit to the page selected for Check for newer versions of stored pages. This will ensure you do not have older versions of webpages when you revisit sites.

By default your Temporary Internet Files folder may be set unnecessarily high. You can enter in a lower number for the maximum size in the field provided, when this limit is reached the old contents are removed. Do not set this too low as loading files from this folder is significantly faster than having to re-download it. I’d recommend setting it to 10.

Using the Move Folder button you can change the location of the Temporary Internet Files folder to a different drive/partition or directory as needed. Change the default locations as you see fit. Select Ok once you have made your changes.

History. Use this field to change the amount of days that Internet Explorer stores the URL’s of visited webpages. This is of most use if you have the History tab enable in Internet Explorer, here’s the websites I visited today, as you can see selecting the website opens a sub list showing the webpages visited at that site.

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