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Internet Explorer Favorites

One of the best things about browsing the Web is the ability to save your place when you find something interesting, or need to leave and come back. Internet Explorer's Favorites menu does just that. But there is something else that Internet Explorer does that enhances the management of links to favorite sites. Subscribing to a Web site is a way of keeping up-to-date with any changes that might be made.

Adding Web sites to your Favorites list is easy:

Internet Explorer will want to know whether you want to subscribe to the site that you are adding to your list. The default (the radio button that is selected when the window first appears) is "No, just add the page to my favorites". You are not obligated to subscribe to a page, and hitting the Enter button will automatically add the site to your list. If, however, you choose to subscribe, you can tell Internet Explorer to notify you and possibly download the website to your computer.

NOTE: Subscribing to many Web pages may tend to hog hard disk space, so be very careful about what pages are automatically updated. It is the authors opinion that just notifying is the better option, leaving the downloading up to you if you so desire.

   
Subscribing to a Web site
  • Internet Explorer will automatically check to see if any content on the web site has been updated.
  • You can schedule subscriptions so that Internet Explorer checks at whatever time you specify
  • Internet Explorer will alert you to a changed Web page and, if you tell it to, automatically download the contents of the page.
  • The content is stored locally, on your hard drive, and can be viewed either on or off-line.