Your Web browser, email application, news reader, and other Internet applications each have associated settings and preferences, like browser link colors, email signature, or default news server.

You can adjust these preferences from within the individual applications or adjust them all from one place: the Internet control panel.

Open the Internet control panel for me.

Note: Your Internet applications and the Internet control panel store your settings in the same settings file. This file always contains the latest settings, whether you make changes in the Internet control panel or in individual Internet applications.

Tip: For more information about the options in the Internet control panel, open the Help menu and choose Show Balloons. Then, point at the item you're interested in.

If you change preferences often:
You can create sets of preferences that you can easily switch among.

Advanced settings

You can display advanced settings in the Internet control panel by switching to Advanced user mode.

To switch to Advanced user mode:

•	In the Internet control panel, open the Edit menu and choose User Mode.

Protecting your settings

You can protect your settings with a password by using Administration user mode.

To switch to Administration user mode:

•	In the Internet control panel, open the Edit menu and choose User Mode.