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Intro: Setting Up The Browser & E-Mail thru Edit Menu Preferences

Almost every aspect of setting up your Internet Explorer (and even the e-mail settings) are set under the "edit" menu in the "preferences" as shown below. This page covers the most important settings: (1) setting the home page, (2) e-mail setup, (3) smut filtering and (4) cache/history clearing.

"Browser Display" Home Page, Keyboard & Toolbar Settings:

The preferences window is shown below. There is a little arrow to the left of the categories in the box on the left. Click the arrow to the left of "web browser" so that it points downward as shown below. This provides a bunch of sub-categories. When you highlight a sub-category, the content in the right side of the box changes to allow you to choose your preferences.

We will begin with the "browser display" options. The main option is to set the "home page" that your browser will go to when you first connect to the internet. You can choose the "use none" button to always start with a blank page. Otherwise, choose your favorite home page by typing its address in the box.

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E-Mail Setup:

Click the arrow to the left of "e-mail" so that it is pointing downwards as shown below. This will give you your e-mail setup options which are tied to Outlook Express 5. This is important stuff and it needs to be done just right to work. Your e-mail address needs to be put in there. Don't put any extra spaces in there. The "@" sign [pronounced "at sign"] is made by pressing the "shift" key and the number "2" at the same time.

You also need to set your "smtp host." If your e-mail address is whatever@somewhere.com then the mail server address will be mail.somewhere.com. Call your internet company's tech support group if you don't know what your mail server address is. Don't put any extra spaces in that address and be careful about typos. You won't be able to send or receive e-mail if this isn't put in there just right.

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Proxy Settings & Filtering:

Some internet companies offer "filtering" to keep offensive websites (adult content, etc.) from loading onto your computer. Contact your internet company to see (1) if they offer smut filtering and (2) what proxy address to use. The most common address is 209.210.176.44 port 8888. The LDS internet providers tend to use 216.126.204.21 port 8303. You set these numbers by putting a checkmark in the "web proxy" box and then clicking the settings button. Don't worry about the secure proxy, mail proxy and gopher proxy settings because they don't work with any internet provider that we're aware of.

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The windows below show the two most common proxy settings for internet smut filtering. The first box shows the common filter setup and the second box shows the LDS version. Fill-in the boxes as needed. Don't worry about a username and password. Click OK.

Once you've setup the filtering, you still need to "clear your cache" and internet history in your browser. This is covered in the next section. You will then need to reconnect for these changes to take effect.

Note: There are some filtering programs called Proxy Watch and Global Safe. Those programs do not work on a Macintosh.

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Advanced: Cache & History Clearing

There are some pretty important options in the advanced window shown below. If you are setting up smut filtering then you will need to finish that process by clicking the "clear history" button and the "empty now" cache button. This will remove any previously loaded adult Web pages from your computer.

You also want to make sure that your cache is big enough to hold all of the Web pages that you visit. Your computer will start "locking up" if it runs out of cache memory. On the other hand, you don't want to set that memory size beyond what your computer can afford to allocate from its hard disk memory.

You can improve computer performance and Web surfing speed by emptying your cache on a regular basis. Most of the Web content that you download will only waste space since you probably won't go back to those pages in most cases.

The other options are fairly self-explanatory. Choose the options that you want.

Last Update: Saturday, May 05, 2001