Once you've opened the preferences window, you have a bunch of options. The important ones are covered in the prior Web page. Click the link above to return to that section. This page covers some of the miscellaneous options that are available. The Web content options are shown below.
Pictures tend to be fairly big and they take longer to load than simple text information.
Go to the preferences window shown below. You can program Internet Explorer to automatically check to see if any of these websites have changed since you last visited them. You can even get Internet Explorer to send you an e-mail notifying you if a website has changed. Don't enable the ratings. They are notorious for not working.