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explaining the options available to you in Internet Explorer, and then show

you some of the common options found in other browsers, too.

When you open the Internet Options applet, you’ll see seven tabs along

the top. The first tab is the General tab. These settings control the most basic

features of Internet Explorer: the home page, tab management, your browsing

history, searching, and other appearance controls. If you want to delete or

change how Internet Explorer stores the Web sites you’ve visited, use this

tab.

The Security tab enables you set how severely Internet Explorer

safeguards your Web browsing (see Figure 21-28). Each setting can be

adjusted for a particular zone, such as the Internet, your local intranet, trusted

sites, and restricted sites. You can configure which Web sites fall into which

zones. Once you’ve picked a zone to control, you can set Internet Explorer’s

security level. The High security level blocks more Web sites and disables

some plug-ins, while Medium-high and Medium allow less-secure Web sites

and features to display and operate.

The Privacy tab works a lot like the Security tab, except it controls privacy

matters, such as cookies, location tracking, pop-ups, and whether browser

extensions will run in private browsing mode. There is a slider that enables

you to control what is blocked—everything is blocked on the highest setting;

nothing is blocked on the lowest. Go here if you don’t like the idea of Web

sites tracking your browsing history (though cookies do other things, too, like

authenticate users).

The Content tab controls what your browser will and will not display. This

time, however, it enables you to gate access to insecure or objectionable sites

—a practice called content filtering—using certificates and a parental-control

tool called Family Safety, which lets system administrators restrict Web,

game, and app usage (by rating system and exception lists) and even control

when an account can log in. The Content tab also enables you to adjust the

AutoComplete feature that fills in Web addresses for you, as well as control

settings for RSS feeds and Web Slices (both methods for subscribing to a

Web page’s content updates).

The Connections tab enables you to do a lot of things. You can set up your

connection to the Internet via broadband or dial-up; connect to a VPN; or

adjust some LAN settings, which you probably won’t need to deal with

except perhaps to configure a proxy server connection. Because proxy servers

are a little complicated and CompTIA wants you to know about them, let’s

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