		All Products \| Support \| Search \| microsoft.com Home

Windows Home Pages \|

	Enter a search phrase:

Product Guide

Using Windows 98

Download

Support

Windows 98 Home

Past Highlights

	Why should your home on the Web feel any different?

Start surfing from MSN.COM

by Susan Hutton		January 22, 1999

It's a week before your vacation. You run a search to learn more about where you're going. Clicking links piles up pages like a multiple car wreck. You're lost, frustrated, and you still haven't found what you need. You can make the Web work for you when you start from MSN.COM.

Make your own window on the Web
Collect what you want from the Web and keep it at MSN.COM. If you're not sure where to start, choose from the cool things MSN.COM has selected from the Web and arrange them the way you want them.

Using MSN.COM, you can save time when you:

Book flights

Reserve hotel rooms

Buy and sell stocks

Shop for books and music

Make maps

Look up phone numbers

You can do all these things from one logical, easy-to-use place. And you can rank them so that MSN.COM lists your favorite things first.

Forecast your fate
Want to know whether you'll be needing an umbrella in the morning? MSN.COM can deliver a forecast as local as your zip code. Want to monitor your progress toward your first million? MSN.COM can give you reports on specific stock tickers, or it can list the general indexes so you can follow the market's action. You can get your daily horoscope or a daily dose of vocabulary, read up on the latest medical breakthroughs, or peruse the personal finance page and start planning for your future.

Or say you've always wondered what happened to the boy you glimpsed talking nervously to himself around the corner a few minutes before he made his way up your parents' sidewalk and asked you out on your first date. MSN.COM can help you find him, and can set up a free MSN Hotmail e-mail account for you, so you can get back in touch. The Web is the ideal vessel for doing all of these things, and MSN.COM positions you in the thick of it.

Frame your window on the world
The whole idea of home is that it's comfortable. You know where to find the Q-tips, and that your favorite tea is in the green jar on the shelf. Why should your home on the Web feel any different? MSN.COM gives you a great place to start, and when you find yourself entangled in the Web, it's nice to know you can simply move your mouse pointer to the button on your toolbar and find yourself--with one click--home.

Personalize your home page
Customizing MSN.COM is easy. Follow these steps:
msn.com
On the MSN.COM home page, click personalize on the taskbar.

Scroll down the page and determine which categories you want to display.

To add a category, select the check box next to each item. To delete a category you've just added, select the check box again to clear.

To add your favorite links, enter their URLs into the your links field.

When you have finished your customized settings, return to the top of the page. In the far left column under your page, decide the order you want your choices to appear on the page:

Select a category

Click the arrows to move them up or down.