Cannot change default home page

[Dan U.]

I am running Windows XP and I.E. 6.0. Both my son and I
are defined as administrators under XP. For some reason
my account stopped being able to change my default home
page in Internet Explorer 6.0. My son's account does not
have this problem. When I try to access Internet Options
under Tools, I get the message "This operation has been
canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer.
Please contact your system adminstrator." When I try to
change Internet Options via the Control Panel, my default
home page is displayed, but cannot be changed. I tried
following all of the instructions in Microsoft Knowledge
Base Article 320159, but they didn't work. Please help
me. Thanks a lot.

 

[mac]

I am running Windows XP and I.E. 6.0. Both my son and I
are defined as administrators under XP. For some reason
my account stopped being able to change my default home
page in Internet Explorer 6.0. My son's account does not
have this problem. When I try to access Internet Options
under Tools, I get the message "This operation has been
canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer.
Please contact your system adminstrator." When I try to
change Internet Options via the Control Panel, my default
home page is displayed, but cannot be changed. I tried
following all of the instructions in Microsoft Knowledge
Base Article 320159, but they didn't work. Please help
me. Thanks a lot.

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Also:

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.

 

[Ramesh]

See Fix 268 from Kelly's site: [For Windows XP]
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Restore All tabs in IE and Removes the ** Internet Options ** Restrictions
as well

Download Ad-Aware from www.lavasoftusa.com, scan the system and eliminate
the malware products. Re-apply the above fix if necessary. ** Update the
pattern file using WebUpdate in Ad-Aware **

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

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I am running Windows XP and I.E. 6.0. Both my son and I
are defined as administrators under XP. For some reason
my account stopped being able to change my default home
page in Internet Explorer 6.0. My son's account does not
have this problem. When I try to access Internet Options
under Tools, I get the message "This operation has been
canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer.
Please contact your system adminstrator." When I try to
change Internet Options via the Control Panel, my default
home page is displayed, but cannot be changed. I tried
following all of the instructions in Microsoft Knowledge
Base Article 320159, but they didn't work. Please help
me. Thanks a lot.