Home Page Selection

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Chocman34

Hi,

I have been asked by a number of users to allow them to have selection
box open when they launch internet explorer, to give them a list of
different home pages they can select from.

i.e. 1 - Intranet page
2 - Google
3 - etc

Has anyone done this or have any ideas that I can do this for the
users.

I am looking at having this standard across the customer service
department for about 50 users.

Many thanks in advance

David
 
Hi David,

There are a number of solutions to this.

1. A wrapper application (VB or whatever) to show the selection list, take
the users selection and write it to the registry as the IE Homepage, then
launch IE.

2. A common start page that contains a listing of HomePage links and "Make
this my home page" buttons. See http://www.iecustomizer.com/homepages/

3. Launch IE with the -nohome command line option and place shortcuts to
different homepages on the Users Links toolbar. You can administer this on
your network with IEAK. You could add a context menu for .lnk files or
internet files that would allow users to select their home page from
Internet Shortcuts.

4. I have a software product that uses "Themes" to configure IE with
branding, search settings and homepage and title settings. See
http://www.iecustomizer.com/iethemedownload.htm

The setup program also includes the shell context menu to make a shortcut
the IE HomePage.

Regards.
 
Hi Rob

Many thanks for taking the time to reply to my post, I think I will be
creating a home page. This will allow all the users to have a standard
environment, which will allow IT to control which links are added.

Many Thanks

David
 
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