Add+Sites+to+IE9+Popular+Web+Sites

Add Sites to IE9 Popular Web Sites

Now Internet Explorer 9 is here and it is fast It has a lot of nice features, but there is one feature that attention should be brought to.

Internet Explorer 9 now has one tab dedicated to ten of your most popular sites. However I have failed as yet to add them and keep them as you can in Opera

And if need be you can have say, fifteen or twenty.

This is how you do it:-.

In Internet Explorer 9, there are two ways to view tabs.

One is to the right of the address bar (in the same row) and the other is below the address bar (making two rows).

To view the tabs in the same row as the address bar: Go up to where your tabs are, and right-click in an empty area to the right of the last one. In the menu that pops up you will see Show tabs on a separate row. Make sure that it is not check/tick marked. You should now see your tabs to the right of the address bar.

To view the tabs in another row: Go up to where your tabs are, and right-click in an empty area to the right of the last one. In the menu that pops up, go down the list until you see Show tabs on a separate row. Put a check/tick to the left of that. Now you should see that your tabs are in a different row than the address bar.

Okay, so now you know how to view the tabs.

Now to decide which one is the your most popular sites tab.

To view The Most Popular Sites tab:

It will always be the empty tab to the right of whatever tab is open.

Note: Sometimes the end tab will say New Tab, but sometimes it will be blank. Either way, that tab is where you can access your most popular sites. Another way to get to the tab is to type about:Tabs into the address bar and hit Enter.

. Important note: This involves a little editing in the registry. Before we start, please backup your registry so that if something accidentally goes a way you didn’t want it to, you can just restore your original registry settings. If you’re unsure about tinkering around in the registry, read my tipin the Library, The easiest way is to get into the registry is to left-click on your Start button and then type regedit into the Search bar above your Start button and hit Enter. The very top entry will be regedit.exe. Left-click on it to open the Registry Editor (or registry; they are both the same thing).

Now scroll down to this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing\NewTabPage

When at :- NewTabPage, this is your final destination. Right-click on NewTabPage and hover your cursor over New to highlight it. This will bring up a new menu. Left-click on D-WORD(32-bit) Value.

After you left-click on DWORD (32-bit) Value, you will get this:

In the box where it says New Value #1, type NumRows and hit Enter. After you hit Enter, right-click on NumRows and a menu will pop up. Left-click on Modify…

In the next box that pops up, there will be a blank box underneath where it says Value data. Type the number of rows you want on Your Popular Sites Page. The page leaves 5 columns of sites. Since I typed a 4 in the Value data box, I will have 4 rows of 5 sites. Twenty sites! Just like I wanted. After you’ve entered your number in the box, left-click on OK and exit the registry. You do this the same way you exit websites; click on the X in the upper right-hand corner.

If you had Internet Explorer open, close and reopen it. If you had it closed, open it. Here’s what I got when I opened it:

If you did the above you will have four rows of five sites, a total of twenty sites.

 