>>>step-by-step
In the desktop version of IE10, you can click in
One Box and type a word or phrase that describes what you’d like to
find—for example, entering “tennis” brings suggestions like tennis
channel, tennis elbow, and tennis.com. Bing is the default search engine
Microsoft uses to display a list of suggestions related to your search;
you can click the suggestion you like to narrow your search and display
a page of results with links to web pages you may want to visit.
1. Click or tap in One Box and type a word or phrase describing what you want to find.
2.
Your search provider—which is Bing until you tell IE10
otherwise—displays a list of search results, ranked from those that
match your search phrase most closely to those that are not as close a
match. Click or tap a link you’d like to view.
Adding Search Providers
You can add search
provides to the desktop version of IE10 so that your search goes out far
and wide through your favorite search engines. After you type your
search word in One Box, click or tap Add at the bottom of the results
list. You are taken online to the Internet Explorer Gallery, where you
can select an add-on for a search provider you’d like to include with
IE10. Note that even though the Metro version of IE10 doesn’t support
add-ons, the desktop version of IE10 does.
>>>step-by-step: Selecting Your Home Page
The Metro version of IE10 doesn’t give you an
option of setting a home page. Rather, the page displayed in the
browser by default is the last page you used the browser to view.
You can set a home page in IE10 for the
desktop, however. You’ll find the tools you need in the Home Page area
of the General tab in the Internet Options dialog box.
1. In the desktop version of IE10, display the page you want to use as your home page.
2. Click or tap the Tools icon.
3. Select Internet Options.
4. In the Home Page area of the General tab, highlight the existing web addresses and press Del.
5. Tap or click Use Current.
6. Select OK. Now whenever you launch IE10, the browser opens to the web page you specified.
Multiple Home Pages
If you have several
sites you like to check first thing in the morning, you can add them all
to the Home Page area of the General tab in the Internet Options dialog
box in IE10 for the desktop. Simply put each web address on its own
line and then select OK. When you launch the desktop version of IE10 the
next time, all the web pages you entered will open automatically.
