Changing Default Home Page....

[Scott Rocco]

Hello:
I am using Yahoo as my default home page and lately it
has converted to (%69%71%,...about blank) I change it
manually in the field, but when I restart the computer it
doesn't hold and returns to the other search engine. It
appears to be written somewhere else in my .ini files
somewhere. How do I change it and make it stay? The old
days I used to go into config.sys and autoexec.bat or
win.ini files and delete the errored line. This windows
XP is a little more complicated. Please help...
Thanks,
Scott Rocco

 

[Harry Marnell]

Check your system for Spyware, using somee app AdAware... those like to get
in and mess up your "homepage."

Harry

 

[Harry Marnell]

Gawd, I must've forgotten how to type. That would be an application like
Ad-Aware (from http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ ) They have a free version that
works fine.

Harry

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

Hello:
I am using Yahoo as my default home page and lately it
has converted to (%69%71%,...about blank) I change it
manually in the field, but when I restart the computer it
doesn't hold and returns to the other search engine. It
appears to be written somewhere else in my .ini files
somewhere. How do I change it and make it stay? The old
days I used to go into config.sys and autoexec.bat or
win.ini files and delete the errored line. This windows
XP is a little more complicated. Please help...
Thanks,
Scott Rocco

First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each need to be updated before every use, even when just
downloaded. There's also a lot more to do than just those two programs.

If trying everything at that site does not fix the problem please post back
in the same thread.

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