Category: At least Internet Explorer 8.0

Secondary home pages are the default Web pages that Internet Explorer loads in separate tabs from the home page whenever the browser is run. This policy setting allows you to set default secondary home pages. If you enable this policy setting you can specify which default home pages should load as secondary home pages. The user cannot set custom default secondary home pages. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the user can add secondary home pages. Note: If the “Disable Changing Home Page Settings” policy is enabled the user cannot add secondary home pages.

This policy setting allows you to specify what is displayed when the user opens a new tab. If you enable this policy setting you can choose which page to display when the user opens a new tab: blank page (about:blank) the first home page or the new tab page. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the user can select his or her preference for this behavior. The new tab page is the default setting.

This policy setting allows you to set the rate at which Internet Explorer creates new tab processes. There are two algorithms that Internet Explorer uses. The default algorithm has four settings: low medium high or default. Low creates very few tab processes; medium creates a moderate amount of tab processes; and high allows the tab process to grow very quickly and is intended only for computers that have ample physical memory. The default setting creates the optimal number of tab processes based on the operating system and amount of physical memory. We recommend the default setting. The second algorithm must be explicitly enabled through the creation of an integer setting. In this case each Internet Explorer isolation setting will quickly grow to use the specified integer number of tab processes regardless of the physical memory on the computer or how many Internet Explorer isolation settings are running. If you enable this policy setting you set the rate at which Internet Explorer creates new tab processes to low medium or high or to an integer. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the tab process growth is set to the default. The user can change this value by using the registry key. Note: On Terminal Server the default value is the integer “1”.

This policy setting allows you to turn off suggestions for all user-installed search providers. If you enable this policy setting the user cannot view suggestions for user-installed search providers. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the user can choose to view suggestions for all user-installed search providers that offer suggestions.

This policy setting prevents the user from deleting favorites site data. This feature is available in the Delete Browsing History dialog box. If you enable this policy setting favorites site data is preserved when the user clicks Delete. If you disable this policy setting favorites site data is deleted when the user clicks Delete. If you do not configure this policy setting the user can choose whether to delete or preserve favorites site data when he or she clicks Delete. If the “Prevent access to Delete Browsing History” policy setting is enabled this policy setting has no effect.