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First of all to help make the most of Internet Explorer 7 you are going to want to do some custom configuring of the browser.

The first time you use IE7 you are going to notice something right away. The menu bar by default is hidden. I don't know about you but I like the drop down menus that the menu bar provides so let's unhide the menu bar.

On the line with the tabs you should see a "Tools" button. If you don't click on the double right arrow sign "

>>" and the "Tools" button will be in that menu.

Now when you click on the "Tools" button a drop down menu will appear. In this menu about 8th from the top you will see a line that reads "menu bar", click on this and your menu bar will show on the top line of the browser.

Now let's take a look at the icons on the tab bar. You might have some options that you use most often that you will always want to appear first on this line so you won't have to keep using the double right arrow icon ">>" to find the icons you want.. Usually by default the "Home Page" ,"RSS Feeds","Print","Page","Tools" & "Help" icons are visible on the line.

But you can add or remove icons to this list or change the order of the list any way you want. First click on the "Tools" icon. Next scroll down the list to "Tool bars" and then click on "customize" When you click on this you will see a box open up with two windows. The left window has icons that you can add to the tool bar and the right window has icons you already have on the tool bar.

From the two windows you can add or remove icons from the list as you like. Now to move the icons you already have on your tool bar find the icon in the right window that you want to move and left click on it and while holding the mouse button down move the icon up or down to the position where you want it..

The best thing I like about IE 7 is the tabs. If you have certain web pages that you normally go to when you get on line before IE7 you had to open a new window for each website you visited. That cluttered your desk top and slowed down your computer if you had a lot of websites open. But now you can open a new tab for each website you go to.

By using the shortcut "CTRL + T" or by click on the blank tab at the end of the tab line a new tab will open and you can type your web address in there. Another nice thing about IE7 is that you can have more then one home page. You can have as many as eight pages.

To create your home pages open up your pages 1 to 8 each in a new tab. When you have them all open click

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