Being able to pin websites to the Windows 8 Start Screen is a convenient feature to get where you want to go faster, but if you noticed by default any web page that you pinned will open in the Internet Explorer Metro style version. This may be something that not every user is going to like, if this is your case this is going to help you modify that behavior and open web tiles on the desktop.
Follow the next steps to open pinned websites in the desktop version of Internet Explorer:
1 Even though there are two versions of IE (desktop and Metro) in Windows 8, both share a common place to configure settings, and they are all located in the Internet Options. In the Start Screen type: Internet Options, click Settings below the search box, and from the left click Internet Options.
2 From the Internet Options navigate to the Programs tab, and check the option “Open Internet Explorer tiles on the desktop”. Then click Apply and OK.
That’s it, now every time you pin a new web page to the Start Screen and you try to open it, it will launch in the desktop version of Internet Explorer.
Bonus: How to pin a web page to the Start Screen
Pinning (or bookmarking) a web page to the Windows 8 Start Screen is pretty simple, just visit the web page, click the pin button and select Pin to Start.
From the Desktop version of Internet Explorer. Open a new tab, right-click the site and select Add site to the Start Menu.
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