IE6 Homepage

[Richard Speiss]

My brother is having a strange problem on his computer. He is running XP
Home and his IE6 home page keeps resetting itself to an old home page. The
page is not a typical hijack type of page, it is just an old one that he
used to use. He changes it and a few days later it goes back to his
previous one.

I've tried running AdAware, SpytBot Search & Destory, CWShredder, cleaning
out his restore points, etc. but it has come back again.

It really doesn't sound like a hijacking, but why would IE6 keeps keep going
back to an old home page?

Thanks

Richard Speiss

 

[Michael T]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;320159

 

[Jan Il]

Hi Richard

You might check out the information here and see if it will help:

See this site for possible help and more information:
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers.htm#home_page

You may also want to check out StartPage Guard -
http://pjwalczak.com/spguard/index.php
StartPage Guard protects your PC from cyberscam, by monitoring status of
your internet browser StartPage and preventing it from any unauthorized
changes.

Home Page Setting Changes Unexpectedly,
or You Cannot Change Your Home Page Setting
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=320159&product=ie

Homepage Problem errors & information
http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/iehome.htm

And to keep from having to manually edit the registry to unlock your
homepage settings, try this little script by Doug Knox, MS MVP:
http://www.dougknox.com/security/scripts_desc/nosethomepage.htm

Hope this helps

Jan
MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)
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