default home page

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I have a user, whose default home page has changed to a
website that he accidentally visited. He can change his
setting back to the original setting, but everytime he
reboots his computer, the default home page changes back
to the same website (the one he accidentally visited). I
have gone into the registry and did a find for the wrong
website and modified the value. This has not helped, again
everytime he reboots the default web page is not the one
he wants.

Any ideas.

Frank Tucker
 
frank said:
I have a user, whose default home page has changed to a
website that he accidentally visited. He can change his
setting back to the original setting, but everytime he
reboots his computer, the default home page changes back
to the same website (the one he accidentally visited). I
have gone into the registry and did a find for the wrong
website and modified the value. This has not helped, again
everytime he reboots the default web page is not the one
he wants.

Any ideas.

Frank Tucker
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Some ISP's provide a customised version of IE. Some Web pages will also
reset your home page and do this. One of the customisations they might make
is to disable the ability to change the home page, so that you are forced to
use their home page. You can re-enable this by making a small change in the
Windows registry.

In Regedit, navigate to this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control
Panel

In the right-hand pane, right-click the "HomePage" value, then select
Modify. Change it to: 00 00 00 00

Also change either or these to zero 0 instead of 1 if present:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explo
rer] - DWORD "NoSetHomePage"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Restrictions] - DWORD "NoSetHomePage"=dword:00000001


If you don't have this key, browse to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

and in the right hand pane, double click "Local Page" and set equal to
"C:\WINDOWS\System\blank.htm" (no quotes) which will hopefully set your Home
Page to blank and then allow you to subsequently modify it using Internet
Options.

Exit regedit and reboot.

When you reboot, you should be able to change the home page again.

Some pages will also download a program which keeps changing it back. Go to
Start | Run and type:
msconfig
and press <Enter> or click OK. Go to the Startup tab.
See if you can identify any suspicious programs. If you can, uncheck it, If
you can't, change the home page to what you want and then uncheck one and
then reboot. Try IE. If the Web page changed, change it back and then try
msconfig again, rechecking the last one and unchecking the next. Keep doing
this until you find the culprit.
 
Users post same message 'home page ...' again and again. There should be
already FAQ on that issue. I'm trying to help them as the software I'm
proposing is really capable of solving their (and your) problems
 
John said:
Users post same message 'home page ...' again and again. There should be
already FAQ on that issue. I'm trying to help them as the software I'm
proposing is really capable of solving their (and your) problems
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I do not have any problems, other than an addiction to alcohol and tobacco?
You and Alex are the only ones promoting this software, I wonder why?
There are many free!! programs that deal with this type of problem.
So go away.
 
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