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Setting Up Your Browser

  1. Combination Browsers
    1. Have the graphical capabilities for the WWW
    2. Have Email
    3. Have News Groups
    4. Getting Started
    1. Follow installation instructions that come with the browser.
    2. Open the browser (like opening any program).
    3. The browsers will be set by the manufacturer so you have to change its options.
    4. First Stop the browser from running by clicking on the red button.
    5. Go to the "Options" which will be pointed out in the browser instructions.
    6. Netscape:
    1. Go to "Options" on the menu bar.
    2. Click on "General Preferences"
    3. Go to "Appearance" tab and click on "Blank Page". Leave other items at default values.
    4. Go to "Fonts" tab. Leave default values unless you want larger font.
    5. Go to "Colors" tab. The "Background" "Default" box should be checked.
    6. Go to "Images" tab. Leave at default values.
    7. Go to "Apps" tab. Leave at default unless you plan to use Telnet.
    8. Go to "Helpers" tab. Leave at default.
    9. Go to "Language" tab and leave at default.
    10. Click "OK" at the bottom of the "Options" box.
    11. "Options" for Mail and News will be covered later.
    1. Internet Explorer
    1. Go to "View" on the menu bar and click on "Options" at the bottom of the drop-down menu.
    2. Go to "General" and leave at default.
    3. Go to "Connections" and "Connect to the Internet As Needed" and uncheck the box. If this box is left checked, you will contact the Internet anytime you try to read old Email messages which is a bother. The "Proxies" box should be left unchecked.
    4. Go to the "Navigation" tab and on the "Address" line type in http://www.nacnet.org This will assure that you do not connect with the Microsoft Network when you log on to the Internet. Go to "History". I normally do not keep any history over one day on my browser. This takes up a lot of space and the history has dubious benefit.
    5. Go to "Programs". Unless you are using Microsoft Exchange and Outlook, make sure that "Internet Mail" and "Internet News" show here. The use of Microsoft Exchange and Outlook are a whole subject in themselves and will not be taught in this course. Don't bother the "File Types". Check the box that "Internet Explorer should be the Default Browser" only if this is the only browser that you want to use.
    6. I recommend that you do not make any changes to the information on the "Security" tab. If you set up the "Content Advisor", you will be unable to go back and change the ratings unless you go through a complicated procedure. However, you may want to use the "Content Advisor" if your grandchildren use your computer on the Internet. I have a separate computer for my grandchildren to use with the ratings set up.
    7. Suggest that you make no changes to the "Advanced" tab until you are familiar with Internet Explorer.