This wizard lets you synchronize this page with your Internet Explorer favorites.
Click Next to check if your security settings allow this page access to your favorites.
This check may provoke warnings from your browser and anti-virus software.
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Norton Antivirus may claim
that this page contains malicious content, because it detects that a web page is trying to read local files.
You must answer Yes to the ActiveX security warning, and you must choose to
Authorize this script in Norton Antivirus.
This page does not contain any malicious code. Either take my word for it, examine the code yourself using View Source or note the good reviews.
Your security settings seem to allow synchronization. Please choose an action and then click Next.
Building will completely re-create this page based on your current favorites. Whenever you update your favorites, you should build this page again.
The following changes need to be saved:
These changes will affect your Internet Explorer favorites.
The page will be rebuilt using your favorites.
Your browser security settings do not allow
synchronization, even though you have opened this page as an Application. Please consult the FAQ for help.synchronization. You have to open this page as an Application in order to synchronize. Unfortunately, it is not possible to save the changes you have made in this browser.
Build this page
Upgrade from another start.html file
Export favorites to Internet Explorer
Open this page as an Application
PLEASE NOTE: If you get a prompt when you click on Finish, you must select Run or Open and not Save. If you can only select Save, or if you do not get a prompt at all, then you must instead click the Windows Start button, navigate to All Programs and The Favorite Start Page and click the Open (as Application) shortcut.
You can specify folders that should get their own box on the page, and folders that should be skipped. More »
You can make some favorites more accessible with the Box setting. The folders you specify
will get their own box on the page. This setting has no effect when exporting.
The folders you specify in Skip (and their sub-folders) will be skipped and
cannot be exported from this page later.
Specify multiple folders by separating their folder names with a space. Use
"double quotes" if a folder name contains a space.
You can use forward slashes and the asterix for advanced expressions. For example, to make a box for every folder
below a top-level folder called news, enter /news/* in the Box field.
Double slashes signifies any level of sub-folders. If you specify a folder without slashes (e.g. news),
it is interpreted as //news and can be anywhere in the structure of favorite folders.
Favorites which do not belong to any folder are stored in a box with no name.
Specify "" (two double quotes) to skip these favorites.
Your selection will be stored in this page and will be remembered the next time this synchronization wizard is shown.
Box:
Skip:
Skip empty folders
Update graphics cache:
Select the start.html file to upgrade from:
All favorites currently on this page will be added to your Internet Explorer favorites.
This will restore the favorites you had when this page was last built.
The icons on the Favorites menu in Internet Explorer are usually located on the web site
that each favorite refers to. Select cache to tell Internet Explorer to look for these
icons in the graphics cache of The Favorite Start Page instead. Since this is a local folder,
icons will load faster and more reliably. Select web to restore the original location.
See the FAQ for more information.
Please note that keep means setting the locations as they were when this page was last built.
Replace existing favorites
Delete favorites not currently on this page
Please specify the disk location of your favorites: More »
The program needs to know the location of the folder on your hard disk where Internet Explorer stores your favorites. If entering %FAVORITES% does not work then
you must enter the exact location. On Windows XP, the folder is usually
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Favorites
where user is the name of the user currently logged on to Windows.
This error usually occurs when the start.html file has been downloaded
using Save As... from the File menu.
Internet Explorer actually modifies the file slightly when it is saved like that.
To hide this help page, click the help
button or on the background around the boxes, or press the Escape key.
To synchronize this page with your Internet Explorer favorites,
click the sync button.
PLEASE NOTE: You have not yet successfully built this page or saved changes from within this browser. If your browser security settings do not allow that, then you will have to open this page as an application. In that case it will not be possible to save changes you have made from within this browser.
PLEASE NOTE: The browser you are currently using does not support saving changes or building this page using your favorites. Also, some features on this help page may not work properly. To build this page with your favorites, you will have to open this page as an application. To do that, click the Windows Start button and navigate to All Programs and The Favorite Start Page and click the Open (as Application) shortcut.
Each box represents a folder in your Internet Explorer favorites
and contains the same favorites and sub-folders as that folder. You must move the mouse pointer over the title of a box to open it.
Boxes do not close if you move the mouse pointer over the help page, or near the top, right or bottom edges when the scrollbar is enabled.
Clicking on the background around the boxes will close both an open box and the help page.
After making changes to this page, click the sync button and save the changes. If you move
a favorite to a different folder, both this page and your Internet Explorer favorites will be updated.
Move the mouse pointer over the favorite 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 favorite is now marked for deletion. The undo
button will appear. You can click it to move the favorite back
to its original position. Favorites in the Recycle Box will be deleted from both this page
and your Internet Explorer favorites when you click the sync button and save changes.
You can do that from the Favorites menu or by right-clicking on a link. After adding items to your Internet Explorer favorites, click the sync button and rebuild this page.
Click the yellow star on the Internet Explorer toolbar to display your favorites
on the left hand side of the browser window. You can also use the Organize Favorites
feature on the Favorites menu. After making changes to your Internet Explorer favorites,
click the sync button and rebuild 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).
Box Width
100%
The two box widths are for closed and open boxes, respectively. You can enter either a percentage of the default width, or an absolute width (e.g. 100px).
175%
Button Width
100%
New window
Open each link in a new browser window. Another way to achive that is to press the Shift key while you click.
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 the help and sync buttons in the top right corner. You can press Escape to show the help page when the buttons are hidden.
Show search
Show the search box and the search buttons.
Show icons
hide and stay will make icons visible when a box is opened, but hide will hide icons when it closes.
Force icons
More non-cached icons will be downloaded, but you will probably experience 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.
Use Unicode
Unicode uses two bytes per character and covers practically every language in the world. auto means using Unicode only when necessary. Selecting never may cause some characters to be replaced with a square (□).
Click to select a skin, and adjust font size here:
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When you download and use one of the online skins, that information is logged by the web server
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No personal information about you is transmitted.
The search buttons are customizable and let you search directly in most search engines and
databases.
Each row in the table below corresponds to one button. For more information and
a list of useful search engines, click here.
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MP3.comCDnowE! OnlineEMusicInternet Music PagesIUMAJazz OnlineNapsterRealSpinnerThe Ultimate Band List
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