Re: Can't change home page, read others post

Frank, I have tried both of the links you supplied, no good. I looked in the
immunize portion of Spybot S&D, but the only check box I find is for "Enable
permanent blocking of bad addresses in IE". Maybe I'm blind or else the "Lock
IE Start Page Settings" is not available in the latest version.
As for the regedit options, the only complete path I could find in XP w/SP2
was the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Control Panel, and its value was at 0. It read 0x00000000 (0).
As for the possability you mention that "Some pages will also download a
program which keeps changing it back", unless such a program sets the home
page to its current setting, that would be unlikely as my home page is set to
my church'e website and my wife's user account is set to the MSN default page
(it won't change either).
Do you have any other suggestions!!!!
Tom


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I've read many post from folks that can't change their IE home page. The
general 'cure' is dealing with anti spyware and anti virus software. So I
removed all my anti spyware and virus software, ad-aware, spybot s&d,
windows
defender and AVG. Still, the home page won't reset from when I did a files
and settings transfer to set it origonally when I bought the computer. I
even
changed the homepage on another computer, did a settings transfer to cd
and
tried to install those setting with the new home page to this computer,
all
without success. I'm open to suggestions, ... this side of firefox.
Thanks, Tom

If they locked the homepage, removing the program won't unlock it. You have
to turn off the locking in the program that locked it

OR

From http://www.fjsmjs.com/IE/homepage.htm

If you have SpyBot S&D installed, go to the "Immunize" section.
Is "Lock IE Start Page Settings" ticked?
If so, uncheck it.

If that is not the problem, get and run these programs (if you test after
each one you can stop when the problem is gone):
Ad-Aware:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com
Once installed make sure to update via online before scanning!
and
Spybot - Search & Destroy -
http://security.kolla.de/
http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=download
http://spybot.eon.net.au/
http://www.tomcoyote.org/SPYBOT/
Once installed make sure to update via online before scanning!
and
BHO Demon: http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/bhod/

Until the problem is solved.


cSome Web pages will 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\Explorer]
- 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.


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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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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