IE 6 Home Page won't change

[Judith]

Several weeks ago (beginning to middle of June) I changed the Internet
Explorer home page to http://www.alpharetta.ga.us/ on both my PC and laptop
and have not been able to change home page to anything else. All other pages
come up correctly when entered. When I go to another page and click on the
link to make it my home page, it goes to that page but if I click on home,
it reverts back to http://www.alpharetta.ga.us/. When on the page I want, I
have gone into tools, internet options, general and clicked use current,
apply and ok. But when I click on home, it again reverts to
http://www.alpharetta.ga.us/.

I have Windows XP Pro SP2 and Internet Explorer 6 and am current on updates.
I have disconnected Zone Alarm and Spy Sweeper separately and at the same
time and tried again and the same thing happens. Could one of the Microsoft
updates in June changed something so my home page can not be changed?
Anti-virus, firewall or both anti-spyware softwares that I use have not
found anything that might point to the problem.

Exhausted and run out of ideas on how to correct. Any suggestions/help would
be most appreciated.

Thank you
Judith

 

[Guest]

Several weeks ago (beginning to middle of June) I changed the Internet
Explorer home page to http://www.alpharetta.ga.us/ on both my PC and laptop
and have not been able to change home page to anything else. All other pages
come up correctly when entered. When I go to another page and click on the
link to make it my home page, it goes to that page but if I click on home,
it reverts back to http://www.alpharetta.ga.us/. When on the page I want, I
have gone into tools, internet options, general and clicked use current,
apply and ok. But when I click on home, it again reverts to
http://www.alpharetta.ga.us/.

I have Windows XP Pro SP2 and Internet Explorer 6 and am current on updates.
I have disconnected Zone Alarm and Spy Sweeper separately and at the same
time and tried again and the same thing happens. Could one of the Microsoft
updates in June changed something so my home page can not be changed?
Anti-virus, firewall or both anti-spyware softwares that I use have not
found anything that might point to the problem.

Exhausted and run out of ideas on how to correct. Any suggestions/help would
be most appreciated.

Thank you
Judith

Hi Judith,
This a cut and paste from a user had the same problem as your's please read
and apply:
First of all do you run these softwares on your computer:
= Zone Alarm = Spybot S&D in Tea Timer Mode = Spy Shierf = WeatherBug
= AdAware =spysweeper.... etc.
If yes, then proceed, Open the RUN command and type : msconfig click oK
On the Window click on the Start Up Programs Tab and uncheck the
pre-mentioned programs from starting up.
Then Reboot and see if you could change your Homepage.
If no joy then do the following:

Change the Home page in the following KEYS:
Click on *Main*
[+]HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main.

and look in Right Pane/Window and Locate *Start Page* Right
Click on it and select Modify and enter the Data say for ex;
http://www.MyWeb.com as your Home page and then Locate also this *Local
Page* and Right Click on it and select Modify and put the following;
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\blank.htm

The same with this KEY:
[+] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
On the *Start Page* change it into http://www.myweb.com

Leave the *Local Page* as it is if it have this stringe of Data:
http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd={SUB_PRD}...... etc

Close the Registry and Open the IE Properties by Right Click on the Icon on
your Desktop and select Properties from the drop down list.
On the IE window click on Programs Tab and click on Manage Add-Ons, in the
Add-Ons window Disable Add-Ons for Non-MS IE Add-Ons (ZA, Safer network..etc)
and click OK.
On the same window click *Reset web Settings* and click Apply/OK and Reboot
your computer and see if the new home page is set.

If you still can't change the homepage then you need to uninstall the
Culprit software which blocking you from changing the Address like (ZA, S&D,
AD-Aware...etc), and remove their left behind traces on the System by using
the Local Search engine on the start button and also in the Registry, but be
carefull in the registry not to delete a system file if you in doubt leave it.
After finishing Restart your Machine and see if the issue cured, if all Okay
reinstall your software and configure them to protect your Machine and let
you have control on your computer.
HTH
Please let us know
Regards
nass

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

Several weeks ago (beginning to middle of June) I changed the Internet
Explorer home page to http://www.alpharetta.ga.us/ on both my PC and
laptop and have not been able to change home page to anything else. All
other pages come up correctly when entered. When I go to another page and
click on the link to make it my home page, it goes to that page but if I
click on home, it reverts back to http://www.alpharetta.ga.us/. When on
the page I want, I have gone into tools, internet options, general and
clicked use current, apply and ok. But when I click on home, it again
reverts to http://www.alpharetta.ga.us/.

I have Windows XP Pro SP2 and Internet Explorer 6 and am current on
updates. I have disconnected Zone Alarm and Spy Sweeper separately and at
the same time and tried again and the same thing happens. Could one of the
Microsoft updates in June changed something so my home page can not be
changed? Anti-virus, firewall or both anti-spyware softwares that I use
have not found anything that might point to the problem.

Exhausted and run out of ideas on how to correct. Any suggestions/help
would be most appreciated.

Thank you
Judith

Try booting into Safe Mode and changing it there.