Hi Rick - Did you possibly set it Lock using one of the supplimental
Immunize functions in SpyBot S&D?
Courtesy of Mike Burgess - To Unlock your HomePage go to:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/ietips.htm#Protecting
and download: HKLM-HKCU_Undo_HomePage.reg
or see below for manual instructions.
Then, from
http://www.fjsmjs.com/IE/homepage.htm (Courtesy of Frank
Saunders MS-MVP IE/OE)
"Some ISP's provide a customized version of IE. Some Web pages will also
reset your home page and do this. One of the customizations 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 the home page
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.
You might also want to look at this little program. I haven't tried it, but
I've read encouraging reports:
http://www.pjwalczak.com/spguard/"
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Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP
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