Bill said:Internet explorer does not allow me to open upthe
internet options tools but I can open them in control
panel, however I can't change my home page.
Does any one know why please?
DWORD "NoSetHomePage"=dword:00000001-----Original Message-----
Bill said:Internet explorer does not allow me to open upthe
internet options tools but I can open them in control
panel, however I can't change my home page.
Does any one know why please?
From http://www.fjsmjs.com/IE/homepage.htm
if you have SpyBot S&D installed, go to the "Immunize" section.
Is "Lock IE Start Page Settings" ticked?
If so, uncheck it.
Some ISP's provide a customized version of IE. Some Web pages will also
reset your home page and do this. One of the customizations 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\CurrentVers
ion\Policies\Explo
rer] - DWORD "NoSetHomePage"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Restrictions] -
the cause.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 the home page
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.
You might also want to look at this little program. I haven't tried it, but
I've read encouraging reports:
http://www.pjwalczak.com/spguard/
Close IE.
Open Regedit.
Find the value NoBrowserOptions and remove every instance of it.
You might try this from Mike Burgess first if you use SpyBot:
'Did you by chance run SpyBot's Immunize feature?
If so, you can unlock by unchecking the option to "Protect IE Control
Panel"
--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
.
Thanks for your help Frank, you had it it one spybot was
Bill said:DWORD "NoSetHomePage"=dword:00000001-----Original Message-----
Bill said:Internet explorer does not allow me to open upthe
internet options tools but I can open them in control
panel, however I can't change my home page.
Does any one know why please?
From http://www.fjsmjs.com/IE/homepage.htm
if you have SpyBot S&D installed, go to the "Immunize" section.
Is "Lock IE Start Page Settings" ticked?
If so, uncheck it.
Some ISP's provide a customized version of IE. Some Web pages will
also reset your home page and do this. One of the customizations
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\CurrentVers
ion\Policies\Explo
rer] - DWORD "NoSetHomePage"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Restrictions] -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 the
home page 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.
You might also want to look at this little program. I haven't tried
it, but I've read encouraging reports:
http://www.pjwalczak.com/spguard/
Close IE.
Open Regedit.
Find the value NoBrowserOptions and remove every instance of it.
You might try this from Mike Burgess first if you use SpyBot:
'Did you by chance run SpyBot's Immunize feature?
If so, you can unlock by unchecking the option to "Protect IE Control
Panel"
--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
.
Thanks for your help Frank, you had it it one spybot was the cause.
and all is back to normal.......you are a star and I
really appretiate your help.....cheers mate
Bill
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