Can't change home page

[Guest]

Recently my browser got hijacked by a website (blaze search or something like that) and reset my homepage. When I tried to change my home page back, I discovered that under Internet Options, the field to reset my home page back to what I want was greyed out, as well as all three buttons (i.e. Use Current, Use Default, Use Blank). After digging around in the options, I was able to get the browser to reset to the default MSN page, but I still can't manually change my home page to what I want. I've tried to redownload and reinstall IE6, but it's still stuck. Is there a file I can manually hack somewhere to get my field and buttons back, or do I have to reinstall all of Windows to get things back to normal

Thanks,
Neal Hallford

 

[Guest]

Download
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Protect your pc wit
SpywareBlaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
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Protect your startpage wit
SpywareGuard http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html

See also http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k



----- Neal Hallford wrote: ----

Recently my browser got hijacked by a website (blaze search or something like that) and reset my homepage. When I tried to change my home page back, I discovered that under Internet Options, the field to reset my home page back to what I want was greyed out, as well as all three buttons (i.e. Use Current, Use Default, Use Blank). After digging around in the options, I was able to get the browser to reset to the default MSN page, but I still can't manually change my home page to what I want. I've tried to redownload and reinstall IE6, but it's still stuck. Is there a file I can manually hack somewhere to get my field and buttons back, or do I have to reinstall all of Windows to get things back to normal

Thanks,
Neal Hallford

 

[Don Varnau]

Neal,
Go to Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
Scroll down to Various Registry Fixes

If you have Spybot S&D installed, open it in Advanced mode and check the
Immunize settings. You may have inadvertently set this restriction.

Don
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Newsgroup replies preferred, but e-mail address is...
don_04[at]varnau[dot]org

Recently my browser got hijacked by a website (blaze search or something

like that) and reset my homepage. When I tried to change my home page back,
I discovered that under Internet Options, the field to reset my home page
back to what I want was greyed out, as well as all three buttons (i.e. Use
Current, Use Default, Use Blank). After digging around in the options, I was
able to get the browser to reset to the default MSN page, but I still can't
manually change my home page to what I want. I've tried to redownload and
reinstall IE6, but it's still stuck. Is there a file I can manually hack
somewhere to get my field and buttons back, or do I have to reinstall all of
Windows to get things back to normal?