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About Changing Your Home Page

Why Change Your Startup (Home) Page? Well, it's your choice! When you bought your computer, the computer manufacturer, the provider of your operating system or someone else had already decided what your home page would be. They probably chose a page that was beneficial for them. Now, with the help of these instructions, you can choose your home page. The web page that automatically comes into your view when you connect to the internet or start up your web browser program is usually referred to as your "home page", "start page" or "startup page". We will show you how to set one of the Picture Surfing Web Sites (or any other web page) as your home page, below. Do You Discuss My Internet Browser? Internet browsers are the program(s) you use to select and view internet content such as web pages. The descriptions below are based on relatively recent versions of the most commonly used browsers for the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Macintosh operating system. If you do not know the name and version of your internet browser, go to (click on) the "Help Menu" and select "About Navigator" or "About Internet Explorer" or a similar phrase. If your exact browser version is not listed below, there is still a reasonable chance that one of the examples will work for you. If not, you may want to check under the "Help" menu in your browser program for instructions designed specifically for your browser version. Brief Overview and Shortcuts For most internet browser programs, the basic method suggested to change the home page is as follows. You must find the place in the browser program where the home page is set and then type in the address (URL) of the home page ( http://PictureSurfing.com ) without the "( )". Look for your browser type to get a brief overview of the procedure directly below or scroll down further to get all the details. For recent Internet Explorer browser versions, you must typically select the "Tools" menu (version 5) or the "View" menu (version 4) and then select "Internet Options" to find the place where you can change the home page. For recent Netscape browser versions, you must typically select the "Edit" menu (version 4) or the "Options" menu (versions 2 and 3) and then select "Preferences" (version 4 or "General Preferences" (versions 2 and 3) to find the place where you can change the home page. For AOL version 6, at the time of this writing, AOL technical support staff verified our findings that the home page could not be changed even though you can type a different web page address in the "home page" box. Therefore, you may want to add http://PictureSurfing.com to your favorites so you still have an easy way to return to Picture Surfing Web Sites. For assistance, please go to the Picture Surfing Web Sites Bookmarks and Favorites Page. In case the home page situation is rectified, here is how to find to the area where the home page location is normally accessed. Select "Settings", then select "Preferences" and click on "Internet Properties (WWW)" to find the place where you can change the home page. For AOL versions 4 and 5, select "My AOL", then "Preferences", the WWW icon and finally select the general tab. For recent Macintosh versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape, you must typically select the "Edit" menu and then select "Preferences" to find the place where you can change the home page. Shortcut: If you are using more recent versions of these browsers you can skip typing in the URL and just click on the "Use Current (Page)" button - but make absolutely sure you began the process from http://PictureSurfing.com or your desired home page. Please see the details below. If you don't find the information you need for changing your home page here, we suggest that you look under the "Help Menu" of your browser program for instructions designed for your specific browser version. Helpful Tip You may find it helpful to print this web page for easy reference as you are carrying out the procedures. Note, however, that it will take several pieces of paper if you print this entire web page.

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