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Microsoft Windows 7 Illustrated
Unit G:
Exploring the Internet
with Microsoft Internet Explorer
Objectives
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Open a Web page and follow links
Use tabs to browse Web pages
Search the Web
Block pop-ups and filter phishing
threats
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Unit Introduction
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The Internet is a global collection of millions of
computers linked together to share information.
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Using the Internet, computer users can share
many types of information.
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The Web (also known as the World Wide Web or
WWW) is a part of the Internet that consists of
Web sites located on different computers around
the world.
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A Web site contains Web pages linked together.
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Web pages are specially formatted documents
that contain highlighted words, phrases and
graphics called hyperlinks (or simply links) that
open other Web pages when you click them.
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Unit Introduction (cont.)
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Some Web pages contain frames, which are
windows within a Web page to display other Web
pages or content.
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Web browsers are software programs that you
use to “surf the web,” or display and navigate
Web pages.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 is a popular
browser from Microsoft that is included with
Windows 7.
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Opening a Web Page and
Following Links
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Internet Explorer is a Web browser that you use
to view, print and search for information on the
Internet.
In Internet Explorer, you can open a Web page
quickly and easily by entering a Web address in
the Address bar
• a Web address is a unique place on the Internet where
a Web page resides.
• A Web address is also called a URL, which stands for
Uniform Resource Locator.
Web pages connect to each other through links that you
can follow to obtain more information about a topic.
• a link is specifically formatted text or a graphic that you
can click to move to another location on the same Web
page, or to a different Web page.
• to follow a link, click the highlighted word, phrase, or
graphic and the Web page will load, or open.
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Opening a Web Page
and Following Links (cont.)
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Elements of the Internet Explorer
window include:
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Using Tabs to Browse Web Pages
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As you open Web sites, you can display each site
in a separate tab, so you can view multiple Web
sites in a single window.
You can open Web pages in new tabs by using the
redesigned New Tab page with links—use an
Accelerator, browse the web privately, reopen
closed tabs, and reopen your last browsing
session.
• once you open a tab, you can click to another one to
quickly switch between tabs or click the Close button on
the tab to exit it.
• when you open a new tab from another tab, the new tab is
grouped together and color coded, which can be
ungrouped and the color changed by right-clicking a tab.
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Ctrl+Click a link to group tabs
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Searching the Web
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The best way to find information on the Web is
to use a search engine.
• a search engine is a program provided by a search
provider you access directly from Internet Explorer or
through a Web site.
• many search engines are available on the Web site,
such as Bing (default) by Microsoft, Wikipedia,
Google, and Yahoo and these can be added on to
Internet Explorer.
• when you perform a search, you submit words or
phrases, known as keywords that are a description of
what you want to retrieve, known as keywords.
• type in the Search box to the right of the Address bar
and the search engine displays a menu list of text and
visual suggestions for the matched sites.
• when your keywords are found, it lists the matched
sites, called hits.
• the search results of different search engines vary.
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Previewing and printing a Web
page
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Print Preview shows you exactly how your Web
page will look on the printed page.
To preview a Web page, click the Print button
arrow on the Command bar, then click Print
Preview.
To print the current Web page with the current
print settings, click the Print button on the
Command bar.
If you want to set print options using the Print
dialog box, click the Print button arrow on the
Command bar, then click Print.
• The command bar is off by default, but can be turned
on by right-clicking a blank space on the title bar.
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Blocking Pop-ups and Filtering
Phishing Threats
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The Pop-up Blocker in Internet Explorer prevents
most unwanted pop-up windows from appearing.
A pop-up window is a window, typically with an
advertisement, that gets displayed in your Web
browser without your permission.
When Internet Explorer blocks an ad, the
Information Bar appears at the bottom of the
current tab telling you that something was
blocked.
You can click the Information Bar to temporarily
or permanently allow pop-ups, change Pop-up
Blocker settings, and get Information Bar help.
• with the Pop-up Blocker Settings dialog box, you can
allow or disallow pop-ups from specific sites, choose to
play a sound and show the Information Bar when a popup is blocked, and set a filter level to block pop-ups.
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Blocking Pop-ups and Filtering
Phishing Threats (cont.)
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Phishing is a technique criminals use to trick
computer users into revealing personal for
financial information.
Typically, a phishing scam starts with an e-mail
message that appears to come from a trusted
source, such as a bank or credit card company,
but actually directs recipients to provide
information to a fraudulent Web site.
Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 9 provide
SmartScreen filtering to increase security to help
protect you from phishing schemes; you can set
phishing options on the Advanced tab in the
Internet Options dialog box.
• you can set SmartScreen filtering options on the Safety
menu in Internet Explorer and check Web sites to see if
they have been reported as a phishing site.
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Summary
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Using the Internet, computer users can share
many types of information.
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In Internet Explorer, you can open a Web page
quickly and easily by entering a Web address in
the Address bar.
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A Web site consists of a main Web page and a
collection of related Web pages located on a
computer with a connection to the Internet.
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Each Web site has a unique URL (Uniform
Resource Locator).
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Summary
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The best way to find information on the Web is to
use a search engine.
You can open Web pages in new tabs by using
the redesigned New Tab page.
The Pop-up Blocker in Internet Explorer prevents
most unwanted pop-up windows from appearing.
Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 provide
SmartScreen filtering to increase security to help
protect you from phishing schemes.
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