Change your home page for Internet Explorer 11

Open the browser, select the wrench icon and then choose “Options”. Choose the “Under the Hood” tab and then select “Content settings”. Click the “Pop-ups” tab, select the “Do not allow any sites to show pop-ups (recommended)” radio button and then choose “Close”.

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1. Open Internet Explorer, select the Tools button , and then select Internet options.
2. On the General tab, under Home page, enter the URL of the site you want to set as a home page.
3. Select Apply, and then select OK.

The home page in Internet Explorer is the default web page that will load once you launch Internet Explorer. If you visit a certain page, or set of pages, every time you launch Internet Explorer, it will make sense to just set that particular page as your home page.

1. On your computer, click the Start menu .
2. Click Control Panel.
3. Click Programs Default Programs. Set your default programs.
4. On the left, select Google Chrome.
5. Click Set this program as default.
6. Click OK.

To view all settings and options, open Internet Explorer on the desktop, select Tools > Internet options.

Resetting your browser settings will reset the unwanted changes caused by installing other programs. However, your saved bookmarks and passwords will not be cleared or changed. Chrome’s advanced settings should now be displayed.

Google Chrome has an option that will reset itself to its default settings. To find this option, click the menu button (three horizontal lines) in the upper-right corner of the browser window and select “Settings”. Start typing “reset settings” in the search box.

Press Ctrl+F5. In most browsers, pressing Ctrl+F5 will force the browser to retrieve the webpage from the server instead of loading it from the cache. Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Internet Explorer all send a “Cache-Control: no-cache” command to the server.

A hard refresh clears your browser cache for a specific page, which forces it to load the most recent version of that page. This could include new scripts, styles or features.

If you know a change has been made (such as when we update the address on your website), you will need to refresh the web page in order to see the updated information – refreshing the page tells the browser to go back to the server and see if there is anything new.