Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another quick tutorial for you.
This time with Microsoft Internet Explorer and the fact that it's expiring march 15 2021; and in case you
don't realize what that means, expiring, it means that it's not going to be supported any longer.
No one will be able to help you properly if there's any issues with it and there's no
more security patches for it, so it becomes a security vulnerability in your computer.
So it needs to be replaced and Microsoft already has Edge in windows 10 which is the replacement
for Internet Explorer, assuming that everyone is now switched over away from windows 7 and
you can easily import everything and I'm going to show you how to do all that in this video.
okay so, although there are other alternatives to Internet Explorer and Edge such as Google
Chrome and Firefox, which I've used all of these and they can all work very well as
long as they're up to date and supported, they are secure, stable, and can work well. It really
just boils down to your personal preference. So you can switch from Internet Explorer to
any one of those browsers or any others that there are far too many on the market to list,
you can import your favorites, change your home page, and change your search settings,
which I'm going to show you how to do all that here. So this is in Internet Explorer right now
and I've got a couple of bookmarks in here that I'm going to want to import and it's got a home
page here. Something you might notice is when you open Internet Explorer that it
automatically launches the edge browser. Even if you get into Internet Explorer, there are certain
websites which I tried, if I went to even though i have this in my bookmarks I'll just type it in.
and I can call up the Toronto Sun no problem, but something very interesting is if i go to YouTube...
you see what happens now is it opens up Edge and takes me to YouTube.
If I go back to look at the Internet Explorer it tells me we recommend viewing this website in Edge.
So they are pushing you to switch over to Edge. They're automatically launching it on you
and having things like this happen where you can't even go to certain websites anymore.
It'll force you to go over to Edge and of course when you go to Edge, by default, you don't have your
bookmarks that are, that you had in Internet Explorer. So you really do need to import everything.
So let's have a look at doing that. I'm going to close out of Internet Explorer
and we're going to take on Edge as our new browser. First thing you might want to do is import your
favorites. So over on the top right, there's the three dots, you can go down to favorites
and it brings up your favorites here with the favorites bar.
and this is actually already imported it looks like and I've cleared this out before.
But if it didn't have your favorites listed in here and we can't see the favorites bar
We have these two different things that we want to do. So the three dots again up here
there's import favorites, and this will work the same if it's one of the other browsers.
You can say you're going to import your favorites from, and here's Microsoft Internet Explorer
and you can include not only the bookmarks but save passwords, search engines, and all that stuff.
So we can go to import and say we're done and if we close out of here and here. So we want to
go into the menu here under favorites and the three dots again
here there's show favorites bar; and then you have the options of only showing the favorites bar
on new tabs or never show the favorites bar or always show it, which now it's showing it
to me. So I can hit done and it's always going to show it. It doesn't matter what
page I am on. Now it's also telling me a notice up here to always browse with Microsoft Edge
to make sure your favorite sites work and you can update your settings here.
This says here that it's going to automatically move all your favorite passwords and everything
and they didn't have that earlier. So this makes it a little bit more convenient to move your
favorites and passwords and all that stuff and it also is going to start assuming to every time
you click on Internet Explorer that is going to automatically open Edge. well, it's already doing that.
So they're already forcing this on you. So we'll go ahead and hit switch, even though
it's already done basically. It gives you a little welcome menu with some information that
you might want to read about. What if you want to change the home page? There's a home button here
so you can see what the home page is, and it should be what you had previously but if it
isn't or you want to change it, you can again go up to the three dots and go down to settings
you want to go over on the left side to appearance
and there's the show home button and where it's going to take you to. So we can change this
whatever you want to be your home page. You can save that
and let's go out of here and hit the home button and we can see that we now have google as our
home page. So let's just close the browser and open it again to make sure that it stays
now what happened is when we open the browser it's not showing our home page
that we set. If we hit the home button it takes us to Google but that's not the start page.
So that's a different setting again. If we have to go into the settings, it's important
to understand the difference between having a home button and the startup. It remembers
either on startup showing the new tab window, continue where you left off,
or a specific set of pages; and it could be one page or a set of pages.
So it's up to you, you might not want the new page, maybe you want to just continue where
you left off and it'll always bring you back to where you were. But I like to have a specific page.
So let's say we want the Toronto Sun as our home page. So I'm going to close all out here
and we'll start the browser again and see what happens.
So now when we first start up the web browser we're being taken to our new preferred home page.
But if we hit the home button, you think it takes you to your home page but it's taking us to a
different page. So you can have them both go to the same page if you want or different ones. It's up
to you and it's all configurable in the settings menu here between the appearance for the home page
and the on startup for opening specific pages. Now how about searching? If you click into the top menu
bar and you type in a search it can be used as search, so you don't have to go to Google first
or Bing or anything and then search in there. You can just click up in here and type in what
you're searching for. A lot of people don't even know that you can do that. But the thing is when
you click in there to type, what search engine is it using? and you can see here it's using Bing and
up here it says bing.com that is the search engine that is using by default. I don't want to use Bing.
So I'm going to want to change that. So we'll go again into our menu under settings
under the privacy and search. If we scroll down
There's the address bar and search. Manage search suggestions and the search engine
that's used. So if we click into there, then you can see the search engine used in the address bar is
Bing, recommended. well that's only recommended by Microsoft. I recommend Google and I use Google, so...
Search engines on new tabs use the search box or address bar
we can use the address bar and then managing the search engines
you can see all the different ones that are in here. We got Google.com as the default
and now maybe you want to get rid of these others so when you click on the three dots beside them
you can make one of them a default, edit them, or remove them. So you can get rid
of everything else that you do not want and we'll just take out all of this stuff
and that's the main basics that you would need at least anyway, is bringing over your favorites
adding the or showing the favorites bar so that you can see your bookmarks
up here rather than just going into the favorites list and viewing them all there.
Changing your home page, what shows up when you start the browser, and the home button where it
goes to and your search engine if you're typing in the address bar. Other than that, there's all kinds
of other features and things that you can change but those are the basics that you're probably
going to want to do first thing when switching away from Internet Explorer. So that's it for this
quick tech-torial. I hope you did find it helpful and if you did please do give it a thumbs up,
subscribe if you haven't already, and we'll see you in the next video. Thanks, bye for now.