Can't Change Home Page in Explorer

[Guest]

I am having problems when I try to change my home page in Internet Explorer.
The main problem I have is when my computer accesses the net it comes up with
the home page "about:blank". I tried to change it to MSN and it will not
work. When I shut down the computer after changing the home page by going to
the Tools drop down menu and inputing the new info there. The next time I
went on line the "about:blank" was back. Do I have a minor virus or has some
type of spyware taken control of this aspect or the Explorer? Anyone out
there with an idea please respond. I am getting tired or this about blank
search page as my home page. THANKS!!!!

 

[Guest]

If you have Admin rights on the machine, you should be able to open IE, goto
www.msn.com, once loaded, click on tools/internet options and then click the
"use current" button. This should set the StartPage option in the registry
to the MSN site.

Check under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main (using regedit.exe)

Look for a reg value on the right side called StartPage.

This reg value should contain the MSN start page you set. If it does not,
then you have a virus/spyware resetting this key, or you do not have the
proper permissions to edit the key, etc.

You could try manually adding http://www.msn.com to the StartPage reg value
by double clicking that reg value, deleting the about:blank entry and adding
the url you want, and then open IE to see if that value changes on the IE
load.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

I am having problems when I try to change my home page in Internet
Explorer. The main problem I have is when my computer accesses the
net it comes up with the home page "about:blank". I tried to change
it to MSN and it will not work. When I shut down the computer after
changing the home page by going to the Tools drop down menu and
inputing the new info there. The next time I went on line the
"about:blank" was back. Do I have a minor virus or has some type of
spyware taken control of this aspect or the Explorer? Anyone out
there with an idea please respond. I am getting tired or this about
blank search page as my home page. THANKS!!!!

First, get LSP-Fix - a free program to repair damaged Winsock 2 stacks
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
save it because you might need to repair the Winsock 2 stacks after removing
the culprit.
Then see
How to remove Coolwebsearch and affiliates
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm#Coolwebsearch

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