[WEB4LIB] Re: multiple internet access points

[Nancy Sosna Bohm]

Maybe there is some JavaScript object that could be used as part of a ReLoad
trigger to bring up different pages from different IE icons on the Desktop?
(Can't think of one off the top of my head).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Furciniti" <sfurciniti at yahoo.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:45 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: multiple internet access points


> Hi Kim,
>
> I could be wrong, but I don't think that multiple
> installs of IE will work for you.
>
> I went into C:\Program Files and made a copy of the
> entire IE folder, opened IE from that folder and set a
> different home page.  Then I went back to my desktop
> and clicked my original IE icon and it brought me to
> the NEW homepage even though that icon points to the
> IE install in the original folder.
>
> I can think of a couple other options that you might
> consider.
>
> Option 1.  Create a simple html menu page with links
> to the three sites and have that menu page be your IE
> home page.  That way, clicking HOME will still give
> users the ability to enter any one of the three sites.
>
> Option 2.  Install a couple of other browsers ie.
> Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, etc. and set each of them to
> different homepages.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Furciniti, Systems Administrator
> Roswell Public Library
>
> --- "Grohs, Kim" <kgrohs at banshee.sar.usf.edu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Using a current version of internet explorer, I want
> > to place three
> > different icons on the desktop representing three
> > different home pages.  The
> > problem is that they all point to the same version
> > of IE and while they
> > originally open to the correct home page, as soon as
> > you move from that home
> > page and then hit the home button, it takes you back
> > to the "master" home
> > page (the home page set for the first icon that was
> > implemented).  Do I and
> > can I load IE three times to reflect the unique
> > properties of the three
> > different icons?  Thanks for any help that can be
> > offered on this.
> > Kim
> >
> >
> > Kim Grohs
> > Systems Librarian
> > Jane Bancroft Cook Library
> > New College of Florida/USF-Sarasota Manatee
> > 5700 N. Tamiami Trail
> > Sarasota, FL  34343
> > 941-359-4402
> > fax: 941-359-4307
> > kgrohs at sar.usf.edu
> >
> >
>
>
>
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