how do you reset home page when option is grayed out??

[Steve M.]

Home page is "hung" on MSN.com....cannot change it in
Internet (properties)...(WinXP..Home edition, very
experienced user...thanks...also cannot drag URL to home
icon....what gives???

 

[mac]

Home page is "hung" on MSN.com....cannot change it in
Internet (properties)...(WinXP..Home edition, very
experienced user...thanks...also cannot drag URL to home
icon....what gives???

Probably turned it off. Start - Control Panel - Start Menu and Taskbar -
Start Menu - Customise - Advanced - Enable Drag n Drop

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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.

 

[Guest]

Hi there

Download fix from here
http://www.dougknox.com/security/scripts/nosethomepage.vb

Usage: Download the file to your computer and simply double-click it so that it would automatically get installed. Anti-virus software might warn you of a "malicious" script, this is normal if you have "Script Safe" or similar technology enabled. I recommend you to choose "Authorize entire script" option next Action

HT
Venkatesh [MS India Community Star

----- Steve M. wrote: ----

Home page is "hung" on MSN.com....cannot change it in
Internet (properties)...(WinXP..Home edition, very
experienced user...thanks...also cannot drag URL to home
icon....what gives??

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

If you are using Spybot S&D, you might have enabled the option "Lock IE Start page........."

If not, run CWShredder:
http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe
[Removes all CoolWebSearch variants]

"Remove IE Restrictions & Restore Missing tabs". Download fix from:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

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

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
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Home page is "hung" on MSN.com....cannot change it in
Internet (properties)...(WinXP..Home edition, very
experienced user...thanks...also cannot drag URL to home
icon....what gives???