Studio Visual Steps. A Short Guide to Windows Internet Explorer 8

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Studio Visual Steps

A Short Guide to Windows

Internet Explorer 8

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This book has been written using the Visual Steps™ method. Edited by Jolanda Ligthart and Chris Hollingsworth

April 2009

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Resources used: Some of the definitions, descriptions and computer terminology in this booklet have been derived from the Windows Help and Support website.

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Inhoudsopgave

Foreword

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4 Introduction to Visual Steps™

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4 Visual Steps Newsletter

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5 What You Will Need

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5 How To Use This Guide

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6 The Screen Shots

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7 1. Internet Explorer 8

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1.1 Downloading and Installing Internet Explorer 8 ... 9

1.2 The Internet Explorer 8 Window ... 16

1.3 The Address Bar ... 16

1.4 The Favorites Toolbar ... 17

1.5 The SmartScreen Filter ... 20

1.6 Go Directly to Your E-mail Program ... 22

1.7 InPrivate Browsing ... 22

1.8 Suggested Websites ... 24

1.9 New Functions by the Page Button ... 25

1.10 Tips ... 26

Bijlage

How Do I Do That Again ... 27

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4 Foreword

Windows Internet Explorer 8 is the latest version of the Microsoft program for browsing the Internet. It has a number of newly added handy features and some of the increasing internet security concerns are also addressed. This booklet will familiarize you with some of these new features. If you’re already familiar with version 7, version 8 should be relatively easy to learn. Studio Visual Steps

Your comments and suggestions about this booklet are welcome. Send us an e-mail at: [email protected]

Introduction to Visual Steps™

The Visual Steps handbooks and manuals are the best instructional

materials available for learning how to work with computers. Nowhere else can you find better support for getting to know the computer, the Internet,

Windows or related software programs. Properties of the Visual Steps books:

• Comprehensible contents

Addresses the needs of the beginner or intermediate computer user for a manual that is written in simple, straight-forward language.

• Clear structure

Precise, easy to follow instructions. The material is broken down into small enough segments to allow for easy absorption.

• Screenshots of every step

Quickly compare what you see on your screen with the screenshots in the book. Pointers and tips will guide you when a new window is opened so you will always know what to do next.

• Get started right away

All you have to do is turn on your computer, place the book next to your keyboard, and begin at once.

In short, I believe these manuals will be excellent guides for you. dr. H. van der Meij

Faculty of Applied Education, Department of Instruction Technology, University of Twente, the Netherlands

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5 Visual Steps Newsletter

The free Visual Steps Newsletter informs you of our product releases, supplemental chapters, free tips & tricks, special offers, free guides, etc.

It is sent to you periodically by e-mail. Please rest assured that we will not use your e-mail address for any purpose other than sending you the information you have requested and we will not share this address with any third-party. Each newsletter contains a clickable link to unsubscribe from our newsletter.

What You Will Need

In order to work through this booklet, you will need the following things:

The US version of Windows Vista or Windows XP. Check to see which version of Windows you have by turning on your computer and looking at the welcome screen.

If you are running Windows Vista or Windows XP, the program Internet Explorer is already installed.

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6 How to Use This Guide

This book has been written using the Visual Steps™ method. You can work through this book independently at your own pace.

In this Visual Steps™ booklet, you will see various icons. This is what they mean:

Techniques

These icons indicate an action to be carried out:

The mouse icon means you should do something with the mouse.

The keyboard icon means you should type something on the keyboard.

The hand icon means you should do something else, such as inserting a CD-ROM. It is also used to

remind you of something you learned before. In addition to the icons above, extra assistance is provided in other places in the booklet so that you can successfully carry out a particular action.

Help

These icons indicate that extra help is available:

The arrow icon warns you about something. The bandage icon will help you if something has gone wrong.

The check mark is used with the exercises. These exercises directly reinforce what you have learned in the section or chapter you just read.

1 Have you forgotten how to do something? The

number next to the footsteps tells you where to look it up at the end of the book in the appendix How Do I Do That Again?

In separate boxes you find tips or additional, background information.

Extra information

Information boxes are denoted by these icons:

The book icon gives you extra background

information that you can read at your convenience. This extra information is not necessary for working through the book.

The light bulb icon indicates an extra tip for using the program.

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7 The Screenshots

The screenshots in this book are used to indicate which button, folder, file or

hyperlink on your screen you need to click. In the instruction text (in bold letters) you will see a small image of the item you need to click. The black line will point you to the right place on your screen.

The small screenshots that are printed in this book are not meant to be completely legible all the time. This is not necessary, as you will see these images on your own computer screen in real size and fully legible.

Here you see an example of an instruction text and a screenshot. The black line indicates where to find this item on your own computer screen:

Click

Sometimes the screenshot shows only a portion of a window. Here is an example: At the upper left of the

window:

Click

When it is not necessary to read the information in the screenshot the text may not be legible.

Always use the screen shots in combination with the image you see on your own computer screen.

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A Short Guide to Windows Internet Explorer 8

8 1. Internet Explorer 8

In 2009, Microsoft introduced a new version of Internet Explorer: Internet Explorer 8.

Internet Explorer 8 is available as a Windows Update. If you are using the Windows Update service and have the automatic updates turned on, Windows Internet

Explorer 8 will be automatically downloaded and installed for you.

If you are not set up for automatic updates, you can download the new version from the Microsoft website.

This new version contains extra security measures to better protect your computer against hackers, unwanted pop-up windows and phishing websites, among other things.

Internet Explorer 8 is available for Windows Vista and Windows XP. This guide covers the following subjects:

downloading Internet Explorer 8;

introduction to the most important new features in Internet Explorer 8.

Please note:

In this booklet, we assume you already know how to use Internet Explorer 7. This booklet covers new features available in Internet Explorer 8. You will also learn about some of the icons and features that have changed since version 7.

HELP! I’ve never used Internet Explorer version 7 before!

If you don’t yet know how to use version 7 and you have a Visual Steps book that covers Internet Explorer 7, work through your book with version 7 first. You can check which version of Internet Explorer your book uses, by looking at the ‘System Requirements’ section shown on the back of your book.

Do you have a book that uses Internet Explorer 7, but your computer already has version 8?

The tip Reverting to Internet Explorer 7 on page 24 of this booklet describes how you can remove version 8 from your computer.

Version 7 will then be active again, and you can work through your book to become familiar with the program.

After that, you can return to this guide to install version 8 and learn more about its new features.

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Chapter 1 Internet Explorer 8

9 1.1 Downloading and Installing Internet Explorer 8

In this section, we will explain how to download and install Internet Explorer 8. If Internet Explorer 8 is already installed on your pc, you can skip this section.

During the installation Internet Explorer 8 will overwrite the files that Internet Explorer 7 uses. Your list of favorites, however, will be saved.

HELP! How do I know which version I have?

If Internet Explorer 8 is already installed, the top portion of the window looks like this:

If you have Internet Explorer 7, the top part of the window looks like this:

Click

In Windows XP:

Click

Click the Address bar Type:

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Now you see the Microsoft

website:

Click the Search box

Type: Internet

Explorer 8 Vista

If you have a Windows XP -pc, type XP instead of Vista.

Click

You see the download page for Windows Vista:

If you have Windows XP, you’ll see a similar page.

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Click

You see the folder where the file will be saved. In this case it’s the Documents folder:

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The file is now being downloaded:

When the downloading is finished:

Click

When you work on a Windows Vista computer, your screen goes dark and you see the window User Account Control. You need to give your permission to continue.

Click

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Click

Internet Explorer 8 will now be installed:

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Click

Your computer will now restart:

Click

If you have a Windows XP -computer:

Click

You will see this window:

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Internet Explorer 8 now opens:

You are asked if you want to turn on the Suggested Sites

function. In this example it is not turned on:

Click

You are asked to choose your settings:

In this case the option Use express settings has been chosen:

Click

Now you see the Internet Explorer 8 window:

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16 1.2 The Internet Explorer 8 Window

The Internet Explorer 8 window is almost the same as the one for Internet Explorer 7: The Favorites Center

has a separate toolbar:

The Add favorites button can now be found on the

Favorites toolbar:

One of the new functions is called Suggested Sites: On the left you see the new

Read Mail button: Next to the Address bar you might see a new button called the Compatibility View button

. With this button you can view websites which were made for earlier web browsers. This button will only be shown for older websites.

1.3 The Address Bar

The Address bar in Internet Explorer8 looks pretty much the same as that in Internet Explorer 7. When you start to type an address, it's automatically completed for you:

Click the Address bar Type:

www.visualsteps.co m

You see that the address is completed automatically and all previously visited websites with a similar address are shown:

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17 1.4 The Favorites Toolbar

New in Internet Explorer 8 is the Favorites toolbar. This toolbar shows your favorite websites. You can see how this works by saving the Visual Steps website as a favorite:

Click

The website is now located on the Favorites toolbar:

Go to the website www.seniornet.com

2

Now you see the Seniornet website:

Click

The Visual Steps website appears again.

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Also new to Internet Explorer 8 is the Web Slices feature. When you subscribe to a Web Slice, you receive each update made to a specific part of a website that was added to your Favorites toolbar. At this moment, only a few websites offer Web Slices. But in the future more websites will offer them, just like RSS feeds for news and upcoming events. You can subscribe to Web Slices on the MSN website, for example, the section called Slideshow:

Go to the website www.msn.com 2

You will see that the button

Web Slices has turned green: This means Web Slices are available.

Move the mouse

pointer over the rotating pictures (slideshow) in the middle of the web page

The symbol and the green lines indicate which part of the page belongs to the Web Slice:

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Click

You now see a new button on the toolbar:

Click

You will see the content of this Web Slice, in this case it’s the slideshow of an advertisement on MSN: When you click on an item, you will go directly to the corresponding web page.

Tip

Subscribe to Web Slices by using the Web Slices button

You can also subscribe to Web Slices by clicking the button on the Favorites

toolbar:

Click next to on

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20 Tip

Organizing Favorites and Web Slices on the Favorites toolbar

You can decide how your favorites and Web Slices appear on your Favorites toolbar:

Click

Keep the left mouse button pressed in Drag

to the right

is now located on the right side of the

Favorites toolbar:

1.5 The SmartScreen Filter

In Internet Explorer 7 you could evaluate how safe a website was by setting up a phishing filter. In Internet Explorer 8 there is a function called the SmartScreen filter. With this filter you can check if a website is free of phishing.

HELP! What is phishing?

Phishing is a type of scam in which someone tries to gain access to personal information, with the intent of stealing this information. Phishing is actually ‘fishing’ for information. A phisher tries to coax information out of you, such as your credit card number, password, account details or other personal information, by trying to trick you into believing that this is necessary. This malicious practice most often takes place through e-mail and pop-up window ads.

You can see how the SmartScreen filter works by checking the Visual Steps website to see if it is free of phishing:

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Click Click Click

The website address will be sent to Microsoft to be checked:

Click

The website has been

checked and no threats have been found:

Click

HELP! The website is not safe!

When a website is reported as not safe, you will see a different window. In that case, follow the suggestions given in that window.

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22 1.6 Go Directly to Your E-mail Program

From Internet Explorer 8 you can go directly to your e-mail program. You can do this by clicking the button Read Mail:

Click

Your e-mail program will be opened. In this case it is

Windows Mail:

1.7 InPrivate Browsing

When you don’t want anyone to see that you are visiting a particular website, you can use InPrivate Browsing. With this tool you can prevent information about a website you are visiting from being passed on automatically to other websites. You can turn on the InPrivate Browsing like this:

Click Click

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A new window will be opened: The InPrivate indicator is shown in the address bar:

Click the address bar

Type: www.aarp.com

Press

You see the AARP website:

Click

Now you see the other windows of Internet Explorer again. To verify that a website has not been tracked:

Click Click the tab Click

The website does not appear in the list of visited websites:

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24 1.8 Suggested Websites

You can use the button Suggested sites to give you recommendations for websites about a certain topic. For example, if you have searched for a website about

computers Internet Explorer can suggest other websites about computers.

Go to the website www.seniornet.com

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Click Click

Click

If necessary:

Click

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You will see the websites which are similar to this website:

Open the website www.visualsteps.com 2

1.9 New Functions by the Page Button

Click

When you have a Windows Live Spaces page, you can log on directly:

You can also send a web page with Windows Live Hotmail:

Or you can translate a web page with Windows Live:

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26 1.10 Tips

Tip

Restoring Internet Explorer 7

Would you rather continue working with Internet Explorer 7? Then you can delete

Internet Explorer 8 by following these instructions. You can only delete the updates for version 8. Version 7 is still installed on your computer. By uninstalling version 8, the settings are not affected. Your list of favorites will still remain.

Open the Control Panel 3

Click

Click by

Now you can delete the update for Internet Explorer:

Click

Close the window 1

Restart your computer

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27 Appendix How Do I Do That Again?

In this booklet some actions are marked with footsteps: 1

Find the corresponding number in the appendix below to see how to do something

1 Closing a window

O Click

2 Opening a website

In Internet Explorer:

O Type the address in the address bar

O Press

3 Opening the Control Panel

O Click