Make iGoogle Your Startup Page in Microsoft Outlook
If you are a Microsoft Outlook user that regularly uses iGoogle as your dashboard, have you ever thought about combining the two? It's nearly trivial to add your iGoogle page to Outlook and make it the startup page.
Create a new folder by right-clicking anywhere in the folder tree and choosing "New Folder"
Give the folder a relevant name, something like iGoogle works.
Now right-click on the new folder and choose Properties, and then on the Home Page tab, check the box for "Show home page by default for this folder" and put this into the address box:
Of course you can use any web page as your startup page, not just iGoogle.
At this point you should be able to see your iGoogle page by just clicking on the folder.
Set iGoogle as the Default Startup Page
Open up the Options panel through Tools \ Options on the menu, and then choose the Advanced Options button on the Other tab.
You'll see a setting for "Startup in this folder" with a Browse button next to it. Click that button and choose the iGoogle folder as your startup page.
Now when you startup Outlook, you'll be taken directly to your iGoogle dashboard (you do have to login the first time).
Thanks to our excellent reader Tim who wrote in telling me to write about this.
nice. now how to get firefox in there as opposed to IE?
That's great! It's funny I knew how to do that, but just never thought about it before. Thanks!
Cool! I'm big fans of iGoogle.
Thanks, this is awesome!
Can we get this on thunderbird?? That would be great! And it would even be better if it displayed in firefox instead of IE just as sven said
is tthis just for vista or can it be done with xp too.
Great tip - I also had heard about it before, but when I saw the posting, just had to put google in my outlook as I'm there most of the day!
Thanks for the tip.
However, once the page is displayed in Outlook, when I click on an iGoogle tab, I get a 403 Forbidden message:"Your client does not have permission to get URL /ig/setp?et=xwm-TCyj&brand=&bmod=&source=&pid=&ap=&prefid=&url=outlook%3AiGoogle&ct=1 from this server"
If I click on the iGoogle folder in the folder tree, the new tab shows up fine. Any ideas? Is that url parameter indicating that it's trying to fetch an object of type "outlook"?
i like igoogle home page better it helps me on my spelling its a little better for me
to me things are a little better to get to