Help needed with new Windows 7 computer.

[5teve]

Hi guys and guyesses,

(with apologies for the long read)

We have just bought an Advent All-in-One computer running Windows 7 Home Premium for my wife to use. She doesn't do any what you might call "work" on the computer but she updates her Facebook page, browses eBay and lots of other similar stuff. The most important thing about it all is that she enjoys it and she's happy. Anyway, the reason for getting the new (from eBay) computer is that her old one just died the death. It was an old Compaq from about 1998 and it had done its best for her but now it was time to be replaced.

OK, when her old PC was fired up, right up to when she was using Win XP SP3, certain things happened. For a kick off, IE fired up automatically and then her "My eBay" Watch page appeared, all without her touching a button. But now the page stops loading at her desktop and she has to manually start IE (with Google as the default Home page) and then navigate to her Watch page via her Favs list.

So the question is, Can her Windows 7 PC be made to act just like her old XP machine?

Many thanks for any help,

Steve.

[Plastic Nev]

Hi Steve,

Open internet Explorer and click on tools, then select internet options, the next window to open should open on the General tab, here is where to change the home page for it to automatically open at her E Bay watch page. Just delete whatever is there, then copy and paste the address of her page into there.

Then make sure the dot is in the button for "Start with home page"

 

That should make sure Internet explorer will always start with the page she wants on E Bay.

 

Not too sure about making Internet Explorer open as the computer starts up, it may or not be possible. However I personally will advise against it, during start up there are many tasks done automatically, these take a little time as you know, so adding Internet explorer to that list is only going to make things slower still.

There is also a security risk too, because if Internet explorer opens and connects to the internet before the antivirus and firewall have properly started, there is remote risk something could get in via the open browser. Something you don't want.

 

Nev.

[5teve]

Cheers, Nev. I'll try that the next time I can pry the keyboard out from under her hands. I'll also pass on the info about opening IE on startup being a bad idea.