This page currently contains demonstration links. What do you want to do?
Build this page using your current favorites
Upgrade from another start.html file:
PLEASE NOTE: You must answer Yes to the ActiveX question,
and you must authorize this script if your antivirus software warns
about "potentionally malicious" script behavior.
See the FAQ for why.
The Favorite Start Page
To hide this help page, click the help
button or on the background around the boxes, or press the Escape key.
You can recreate all the links on this page by clicking the import button.
Importing will first remove all the links currently on the page, so please make sure all links
on this page that you want to keep already exist in your Internet Explorer favorites. If
not, please click the export button first.
When importing, the order of items will be preserved if possible.
The order of links within a folder will be preserved if the folder name stays the same.
You can move or delete links and rearrange boxes on this page using drag-and-drop.
Here is an example:
To delete a link, move the mouse pointer over the link and
click the left mouse button. Move the mouse while holding left mouse button down.
The Recycle Box will appear. Move the mouse pointer over it and let go of the
mouse button. The link is now marked for deletion. The undo
button will appear. You can click it to move the link back
to its original position. Links in the Recycle Box will be deleted from both this page
and your Internet Explorer favorites when you click the save
button.
Clicking save will first apply all changes
you have made and
then import your Internet Explorer favorites. This will replace all the links on this
page, ensuring
that this page is synchronized with your Internet Explorer favorites.
To rename items or move subfolders, you can use the Organize Favorites feature on
the Favorites menu in Internet Explorer. Afterwards, click the import button to update this page.
Please note that settings are not in the undo-redo sequence.
Name
Value
Description
Lines
4
Number of lines in closed boxes.
Columns
4
Max number of boxes on a row.
Font size
80%
Either a percentage or an absolute size (e.g. 9pt).
New window
Open each link in a new browser window. You can also press the Shift key while clicking.
Leave box
Leave the current box open after you click a link.
Auto scroll
Scroll when the mouse pointer is near the top or bottom of the page.
Show buttons
Show buttons on the right hand side. Press Escape to show the help page.
Show icons
hide and stay will make icons visible when a box is opened, but hide will hide icons when it closes.
Force icons
Will download more non-cached icons, but may cause browser warnings and other annoyances.
Sort boxes
Sort boxes when importing or saving. size means by max height when opened and title means alphabetically. Will be set to off if you start to arrange boxes manually.
Graphics cache
Icons and skin images will be stored in a folder on your hard disk. Click here to empty the cache. Answer Yes if you click the browse button and get a warning.
graphics
Hide bad icons
Hides icons which could not be cached. Will be unchecked if you start to hide or unhide icons manually by Ctrl-clicking on links. Click here to unhide all icons.
Reload icons
Check for a newer version of all icons (once).
Export icons
Modifies icon location for favorites created or overwritten when exporting. Select cache for changing from the web to the cache, web for changing from the cache to the web or keep for the last imported location.
Overwrite
Existing favorites will be overwritten when exporting (but never deleted).
Allow unicode
If checked, the start.html will be saved in unicode (two bytes per character) whenever necessary. Unicode covers practically every language in the world. If unchecked, only one byte per character will be used, and some characters may be replaced with a square ().
Click to select a skin, and adjust font size here:
Name
Version
Author
Popularity
Edit
Please read this privacy notice:
When you download and use one of the online skins, that information is logged by the web server
and used to calculate that skin's popularity.
No personal information about you is transmitted.
The search buttons lets you search directly in most search engines.
Simply type a search phrase and click on a button to search.
The search box is automatically activated when you press a key,
so you don't have to click it before you start typing.
Press Enter to search using the default button.
Press Tab or Shift+Tab to select a different button.
To change which button is default, click on a row in the table below.
To add a button for a search engine, do the following:
Do an empty search in a search engine, for example AllTheWeb.
Copy the URL of the resulting search page, which for AllTheWeb is http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs=utf-8&q=
Back on this page, click the add button below the table.
Enter the name you want to appear on the button and paste in the URL you copied.
If the search engine does not allow empty searches,
search for the word hello instead
and remove the string hello from the URL after pasting.
Leave the URL blank to find a link on this page only.
Name
URL
This program may be used,
distributed and/or modified under the terms of the
GNU General Public License.