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Create Your Own Custom Most Popular Sites in IE9

Internet Explorer 9’s new feature ‘Most Popular Sites’ displays your most frequently visited sites (default 10 sites) in a tab, so you can visit your favorite sites just with a click. But this display is not permanent and you may find that few of your favorites have got replaced over time.

But with a small utility called IE9 Tweaker you can create a customized ‘Most Popular Sites’. You can add your favorite sites manually and access them with a click. To do that follow as described below.


Run IE9 Tweaker (no installation needed) and click on the ‘Create custom home page’ button. Enter the names and URLs of your favorite sites, the click on ‘Create’ button.

 You can set this custom favorite page to open whenever you run Internet Explorer 9 as described here.


IE9 Tweaker can also do many other things to Internet Explorer 9 such as:
  1. Set menu bar to be always visible
  2. Set menu bar on top
  3. Set InPrivate Filtering to be always on
  4. Always start IE in full-screen
  5. Set small icons on toolbar
  6. 3D boarder, etc,
IE9 Tweaker can be downloaded at source. Before running the tool make sure that IE 9 has properly closed.

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