How to Set IE to Launch Multiple Tabs

Are you a database searcher opening tabs and switching databases throughout the day?   Are you monitoring news media sites and blogs?  Change your IE homepage to launch to all your frequently used sites simultaneously!  I did and am saving lots of time having all my database sign-in pages launch from the get-go!  I then use FireFox for general web browsing.

 

 Here’s how to create multiple tabs as  your IE homepage:

1. Launch Internet Explorer
2. Click on the Tools Menu
3. Select Internet Options
4. Click on the General Tab
5. Scroll down on the General tab to see the Tabs heading, “Change how webpages are displayed in tabs.”  
6. Click on the Settings button.  From the list under Enable Tabbed Browsing, uncheck “Open only the first home page when Internet Explorer starts.”  
7. Then back on the General Tab, under Home Page category, type in or paste each of the URL’s you want to use as your start page for IE.  Each needs to be on a separate line.  
8. Repeat until you have all the sites you want to launch at start up.  
9. Click OK
10. Close and launch IE to see them all open. 

Michelle

Sunday 2010-05-16

B3 GROUP ROCKS THE CASBAH – AND THE STUDIO DINER!
Every THIRD Sunday of the month, meet your fellow SANDALLians in a free-form conversation about technology, tools, tips, trends, and tall tales (had to finish out the alliteration!). We meet at the Studio Diner from 8:30 to 10 am for a fast and furious brain to brain connection.

It’s fun!

It’s exciting!

It’s a learning opportunity between the butter and the syrup!

I have to admit I was afraid nobody would come, even though people had RSVPd. Getting people out on a Sunday morning is not an easy feat!

I was such a happy camper when I found my friend Carol already there at the diner when I showed up. This has been where we have been hanging for coffee and morning courage for years. And then the boisterous Michelle came with her cheer and warmth and spirit, and the people just kept coming! Our corner booth was full of smart, informed, and curious people. I said CURIOUS, not crazy….but then, I was the instigator, so you can read between the lines.

Topics included an amazing range of issues, from Drupal to Joomla, from G3 to G4 technology, what smart phone is best, how Google Sites works, how Skype works, introducing Dim Dim conferencing, and on and on! We laughed, we cried, we shared stories about feeling dimdim because things were racing along so quickly in the technosphere. What a terrific range of people at the table: people who knew and understood the underlying technology, others who knew the cool new uses for new tools, and others who had tried stuff I had never heard of.

Come to the next meeting! Bring your laptop, smart phone, iPad, or whatever. There is free WiFi and everything is on the table. We have guest speakers who actually KNOW things who will be sharing their expertise with us. Come learn, come get hyped on endless cups of coffee, come eat a scrambled egg with friends.
SUNDAY, June 20th from 8:30 to 10 am.
Call me if you have questions! John Adkins
www.studiodiner.com